Re: [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code

Al Viro
2006-03-06T21:32:08Z

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:01:37PM -0800, Dave Peterson wrote:
> Regarding the above problem with the kobject reference count, this
> was recently fixed in the -mm tree (see edac-kobject-sysfs-fixes.patch
> in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2). The fix I implemented was to add a call to
> complete() in edac_memctrl_master_release() and then have the module
> cleanup code wait for the completion. I think there were a few other
> instances of this type of problem that I also fixed in the
> above-mentioned patch.

This is not a fix, this is a goddamn deadlock.
rmmod your_turd </sys/spew/from/your_turd
and there you go. rmmod can _NOT_ wait for sysfs references to go away.