Any luck on the WLAN bug?

Disabling WLAN from automatically connecting doesn't help. If I go into the "Internet connection" widget from the home screen, WLAN APs are still pinged. After 2-3 days of even no WLAN use, if I go into the "Internet connection" widget the kernel panics in the same way as I have reported.

Could someone fashion a patch go catch the NULL pointer for now to at least not kernel panic?