From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932085AbVJHMSW (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:18:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932087AbVJHMSW (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:18:22 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.196]:11125 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932085AbVJHMSV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:18:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=WBY+Zc51RkE1SRbfW4vXQ5mj2f9mBEs8R2qTzv2HoXZiKp68FziMAmcRpOPqZBYtRcHxlsY1EJ0QuyWzqs0e+fo2lQ5kBElXIg/S3tMgF31goGArBOEOQdu7UBXZrKu4DxckpaC9mpMYQafvq84CTGEmUMP1sGYEnSLOoT5XNyg= Message-ID: <253000f70510080518m15e2613do@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 14:18:20 +0200 From: Igor Popik To: sasa.ostrouska@volja.net Subject: Re: oops in 2.6.14-rc3 (pcmcia i82365 patch) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2005/10/8, Sasa Ostrouska : > Hi ppl, > > After some playing with my new slackware 10.2 and > kernel 2.6.14-rc3 I noted this oops when shutting down the machine. > Can somebody tell me why ? This may be caused by bug in i83265 pcmcia module which seems not to have one release_region() call. It reserves region during init and does not release it when it fails to probe for the hardware. That driver is loaded in rc.pcmcia script during boot and usually fails to load because You do not have such hardware (the script probes for different pcmcia drivers). During shutdown one of the shutdown scripts greps through /proc/ioports file which causes an oops (reserverd region name points to unloaded driver). Attached patch is my second attempt to fix this bug :-) Cheers, Igor Signed-off-by: Igor Popik --- a/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.c 2005-10-06 20:30:52.000000000 +0200 +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.c 2005-10-06 20:05:46.000000000 +0200 @@ -1383,6 +1383,7 @@ printk("not found.\n"); platform_device_unregister(&i82365_device); driver_unregister(&i82365_driver); + release_region(i365_base, 2); return -ENODEV; }