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SubjectRe: Kernel Oops while disconnecting USB peripheral (always)
On 23.07.2012 17:04, Sarbojit Ganguly wrote:
> On 23 July 2012 20:17, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Sarbojit Ganguly wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>
>>> That is why I provided two stacks,
>>>
>>> 1st one is when I tried to remove the USB hub (which connects a webcam
>>> + microphone)
>>> 2nd one is when I tried to remove an USB powered external HDD.
>>>
>>> Just to make sure whether the problem is with USB sound or the USB subsystem.
>>
>> Do you stop all the programs that are using the USB devices before
>> unplugging the hub? Do you unmount the USB HDD first?
>
> Yes Alan, I did unmount the HDD
>
>>
>> The first crash shows a problem in the snd-usb-audio driver.
>>
>> The second crash shows a problem in the VFS layer or in ext3, not in
>> the USB stack.
>
> Yes the issue is in evict() api which gets called when USB disconnect
> is triggered.
>>
>> Alan Stern
>>
>
> Even I was confused in the beginning but after thorough check I
> confirmed its presence. I reverted back to my distro's stock kernel
> (3.2.0-26-generic) where the issue does not recur.
>
> I could not analysed further (due to my limited knowledge of USB).
>

Did you succeed in bisecting this problem down? From what I can tell,
there hasn't been any similar report on LKML yet. That makes traking the
problem on your machine even more important as you can reproduce it
reliably.


Thanks,
Daniel



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