Re: Linux 3.0 oopses when pulling a USB CDROM

Andi Kleen
2011-07-01T18:32:27Z

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:14:06PM -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

I've also seen one with an earlier kernel where the NULL
reference was in elv_.* something. Don't have a written down backtrace
for this, but perhaps you have.

-Andi