Re: Linux 3.0 oopses when pulling a USB CDROM

James Bottomley
2011-07-01T20:29:08Z

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 14:14 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 10:05:31AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > I found I can reliably crash a 3.0 system by pulling the
> > USB cable of a mounted USB cdrom (or rather a USB device which
> > has a builtin fake CD-ROM)
> >
> > I suspect it's a regression too.
>
> We've been seeing a lot of similar bugs in Fedora since we pushed
> a 2.6.38.8 update. Some of the traces are different, but some
> look to be the same as yours. (here's one for eg: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712830)
>
> The common cause seems to be 'device went away'. So USB CD drives,
> USB memory sticks, and for some reason virtualbox shutdown.

I think it's something specific in the USB path. I can't reproduce on
3.0-rc5 with a SATA DVD hot unplug. USB cc's added.

James