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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6.0-test5] fix oopses is kobject parent is removed before child
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:46:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030916174651.GC3893@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309141737.04358.arvidjaar@mail.ru>

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:37:04PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> It is possible that parent is removed before child when child is in use. 
> Trivial example is mounted USB storage when you unplug it. The kobject for 
> USB device is removed but subordinate SCSI device remains. Then kernel oopses 
> on attempt to release child e.g. umount removed USB storage. This patch fixes 
> two problems:
> 
> - kset_hotplug. It oopses in get_kobj_path_length because child->parent points 
> to nowhere - even if parent has not yet been overwritten, its name is already 
> freed. Common oops I get is

No, the scsi code should be fixed to prevent this from happening.  This
used to happen in the past, but I thought the scsi people fixed it up.
The SCSI code should grab a reference on the parent device which will
prevent it from going away until the SCSI device does, preventing all of
these oopes.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-16 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-14 13:37 [PATCH][2.6.0-test5] fix oopses is kobject parent is removed before child Andrey Borzenkov
2003-09-16 17:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-09-19 22:54   ` Mike Anderson

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