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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5-bk oops in vsnprintf/scsi_mod
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:07:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D8FBAEF.3D8BDF6F@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.44.0209240140020.13460-100000@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net

"Bjoern A. Zeeb" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> got this one :(
> 
> bk pull from linux-20020923-211332 UTC
> 
> Linux megablast 2.5.38 #52 SMP Mon Sep 23 21:52:55 UTC 2002 i686 unknown
> gcc version 3.2
> binutils-2.13.90.0.4
> 
> could be related to sym53c416 module re-loading (after cli() removal; see
> diff I posted some minutes ago). Seems the driver needs more cleanup ...
> 

Well that driver seems to do a request_irq() with no corresponding
free_irq().  If that's the case (ie: if the free_irq isn't performed
in some driver support code) then yup, it will cause an oops in
show_interrupts() after module unload.

      reply	other threads:[~2002-09-24  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-23 23:47 2.5-bk oops in vsnprintf/scsi_mod Bjoern A. Zeeb
2002-09-24  1:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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