Re: Usb in 2.6 breaks proc

Re: Usb in 2.6 breaks proc

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:17:40PM -0400, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Greg, Matt & folks:
> 
> There was a tangential report from one of our users that /proc
> seems to get corrupt when usb-storage is rmmod-ed and inserted again.
> 
> Kernel 2.6.0-0.test2.1.29 (Arjan's -test2 based RPM).
> 
> Problem looks like this:
> 
> [root@laptop scsi]# pwd
> /proc/scsi
> [root@laptop scsi]# find
> .
> ./usb-storage
> ./usb-storage/2
> ./usb-storage
> ./usb-storage/2
> ./device_info
> ./scsi

Ouch, could this be a scsi issue?  I know a bunch of patches are pending
to get into Linus's tree with regards to scsi reference counting and
such.

thanks,

greg k-h


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Re: [linux-usb-devel] Usb in 2.6 breaks proc

[Matthew Dharm]

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It is a known SCSI issue.  I'm told that there are pending patches to
address this.

Matt

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:49:32PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:17:40PM -0400, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > Greg, Matt & folks:
> > 
> > There was a tangential report from one of our users that /proc
> > seems to get corrupt when usb-storage is rmmod-ed and inserted again.
> > 
> > Kernel 2.6.0-0.test2.1.29 (Arjan's -test2 based RPM).
> > 
> > Problem looks like this:
> > 
> > [root@laptop scsi]# pwd
> > /proc/scsi
> > [root@laptop scsi]# find
> > .
> > ./usb-storage
> > ./usb-storage/2
> > ./usb-storage
> > ./usb-storage/2
> > ./device_info
> > ./scsi
> 
> Ouch, could this be a scsi issue?  I know a bunch of patches are pending
> to get into Linus's tree with regards to scsi reference counting and
> such.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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