Re: 2.6.3rc4 ali1535 i2c driver rmmod oops.

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:47:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Dave Jones wrote:
 > >
 > > Erk, whats going on here ?
 > 
 > Normally this would mean that somebody is trying to "kfree" a pointer that 
 > wasn't allocated with "kmalloc()". That seems unlikely in this case, so it 
 > might be a double free or some other internal corruption..
 > 
 > That "sys_delete_module()" thing seems like some stale kernel stack 
 > contents, so it's possible that that is the thing that messed up and left 
 > something in an inconsistent state.
 > 
 > Do you know what module it was?

I felt masochistic, so decided to 'see what would happen' when I ran this..

for i in `find /lib/modules/2.6.2-prep/ -name *.ko`
do
	MOD=`basename $i | sed s/.ko//`
	echo module: $i
	echo inserting
	/sbin/modprobe $MOD
	sync
	echo removing
	/sbin/rmmod $MOD
	echo
	sync
	#sleep 1
done

.. And then sat back and watched the carnage.

After the ali1535 i2c module blew up and took the box with it,
I rebooted, and did a modprobe / rmmod of that module alone.
Exactly the same result. Reproducable every time.

		Dave