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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, Vince <fuzzy77@free.fr>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	mfedyk@matchmail.com, zwane@holomorphy.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	USB development list <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [OOPS,  usbcore, releaseintf] 2.6.0-test10-mm1
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:25:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD64BD9.1010803@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312092307.04924.baldrick@free.fr>

Duncan Sands wrote:
>>It's not at all clear how that could happen.  Those pointers are located
>>in static data in the HCD modules.  It doesn't seem likely that the
>>pointer was overwritten.  The only other possibility I can think of is
>>that the module was already unloaded.  But that's not possible since you
>>were holding a reference to a device on that bus.
> 
> 
> It occurred on system shutdown - so I guess the module was unloaded.
> Maybe the bus reference counting is borked.  

Various folk have reported similar problems on system shutdown
before, and the simple fix has been not to clean up so aggressively.

What puzzled me was that a normal "rmmod" wouldn't give the
same symptoms -- but the same codepaths could oops in certain
system shutdown scenarios.

- Dave




  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-09 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-26 16:51 [kernel panic @ reboot] 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Vince
2003-11-26 17:16 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-26 17:34   ` Vince
2003-11-26 17:35     ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-11-26 17:40     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-26 17:54       ` Vince
2003-11-26 18:18         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-26 23:37           ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-26 23:41             ` Vince
2003-12-03  0:03               ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-12-03  0:31                 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-03  0:27                   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-12-03 13:28                     ` Vince
2003-12-03 19:12                       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-12-04  1:01                         ` Vince
2003-12-04  1:34                           ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-04  4:11                             ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-12-04 10:59                               ` [OOPS, usbcore, releaseintf] 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Vince
2003-12-04 11:14                                 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-04 16:57                                   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-12-05  7:38                                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-05 10:11                                       ` Vince
2003-12-05 10:18                                         ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-05 10:34                                           ` Vince
2003-12-07  0:25                                         ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-07 21:09                                           ` Vince
2003-12-07 21:24                                             ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-07 22:24                                               ` Vince
2003-12-07 22:54                                               ` Vince
2003-12-08 10:10                                                 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-08 16:03                                                   ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2003-12-08 16:15                                                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-08 16:31                                                       ` Alan Stern
2003-12-08 17:20                                                         ` David Brownell
2003-12-08 17:59                                                         ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-08 18:35                                                           ` Alan Stern
2003-12-08 19:53                                                             ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-08 21:32                                                               ` Alan Stern
2003-12-08 21:55                                                                 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-08 23:09                                                                   ` Alan Stern
2003-12-09 10:23                                                                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-09 15:55                                                                       ` Alan Stern
2003-12-09 20:36                                                                         ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-09 10:36                                                                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-09 16:08                                                                       ` Alan Stern
2003-12-09 20:24                                                                         ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-09 10:49                                                                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-09 15:47                                                                       ` Alan Stern
2003-12-09 21:12                                                                         ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-09 21:58                                                                           ` Alan Stern
2003-12-09 22:07                                                                             ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-09 22:25                                                                               ` David Brownell [this message]
2003-12-09 22:33                                                                                 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-10  3:12                                                                                   ` David Brownell
2003-12-10  3:43                                                                                 ` Alan Stern
2003-12-10 13:12                                                                                   ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-10 15:13                                                                                     ` Alan Stern
2003-12-10 15:30                                                                                   ` Greg KH
2003-12-10 16:02                                                                                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-10 20:53                                                                                       ` Greg KH
2003-12-11  8:49                                                                                         ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-11  9:23                                                                                           ` Greg KH
2003-12-11  9:29                                                                                             ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-10 17:25                                                                                     ` Alan Stern
2003-12-10 20:46                                                                                       ` Greg KH
2003-12-10 21:08                                                                                         ` Greg KH
2003-12-11  2:10                                                                                           ` Vince
2003-12-11  6:46                                                                                             ` Greg KH
2003-12-10 22:08                                                                                         ` Alan Stern
2003-12-11  6:47                                                                                           ` Greg KH
2003-12-10  4:31                                                                               ` Vince
2003-12-10  1:49                                                                       ` Greg KH
2003-12-10 13:22                                                                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-10 16:20                                                                       ` Oliver Neukum
2003-12-10 16:49                                                                         ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-10 16:58                                                                           ` Oliver Neukum
2003-12-11  9:45                                                                             ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-11 10:19                                                                               ` Oliver Neukum
2003-12-11 21:43                                                                                 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-11 22:57                                                                                   ` Oliver Neukum
2003-12-11 23:30                                                                                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-12  0:02                                                                                     ` David Brownell
2003-12-10 17:34                                                                           ` David Brownell
2003-12-10 17:54                                                                             ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-10 18:19                                                                               ` Alan Stern
2003-12-11  9:36                                                                                 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-11 15:19                                                                                   ` Alan Stern
2003-12-11 21:23                                                                                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-12 15:46                                                                                       ` Alan Stern
2003-12-11 21:29                                                                                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-12 16:18                                                                                       ` Alan Stern
2003-12-12 18:37                                                                                         ` David Brownell
2003-12-12 19:17                                                                                           ` Alan Stern
2003-12-12 19:45                                                                                             ` David Brownell
2003-12-12 20:48                                                                                               ` Alan Stern
2003-12-12 21:01                                                                                                 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-12-12 21:27                                                                                                   ` Alan Stern
2003-12-12 23:36                                                                                                     ` Oliver Neukum
2003-12-13  1:10                                                                                                       ` Alan Stern
2003-12-13 11:52                                                                                                         ` Oliver Neukum
2003-12-12 18:50                                                                                         ` Oliver Neukum
2003-12-10 19:43                                                                               ` David Brownell
2003-12-11  9:21                                                                                 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-10 17:21                                                                       ` David Brownell
2003-12-11  9:42                                                                         ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-12  2:21                                                           ` David Brownell
2003-12-12  8:47                                                             ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-12 15:35                                                             ` bill davidsen
2003-12-05  0:08                               ` [kernel panic @ reboot] 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-27  0:59           ` [kernel panic @ reboot in usbcore] 2.6.0-test10-mm1 (culprit: modem_run) Vince
2003-11-27  3:13             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-27  8:14               ` Vince
2003-11-27  8:11             ` Duncan Sands

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