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On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:27:52PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote: > Greg KH wrote:> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 04:03:53PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > > If the refcnt attribute of a module is open when the module is > > > unloaded, we get an oops when the file is closed. I used ide_cd for > > > this report but I don't think the oops is caused by the driver itself. > > > This bug seems to be restricted to the /sys/module hierarchy; it > > > doesn't happen with /sys/class etc.> > > > > > I suspect it's an extra put or a missing get somewhere, but the fix > > > isn't obvious to me after looking at it for a little while, so I'm > > > punting.> > > > > > I'm pretty sure this happens with 2.6.15; I can double-check if > > > needed.> > > > Ugh, we aren't setting the owner of these fields properly, good catch. > > > > Does the patch below (built tested only), solve this for you?> > Thanks, but no, I get the same oops. The refcnt attribute isn't part > of the modinfo_attrs array. Ah, crap, you're right. We really need to dynamically create these attributes for every module to get the owner right. That will be a bigger patch that I'll work on on Monday... thanks for testing, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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