From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756833Ab3EHUcJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 May 2013 16:32:09 -0400 Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:36939 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751385Ab3EHUcH (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 May 2013 16:32:07 -0400 Message-ID: <518AB646.1000406@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 13:32:06 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: relayfs question related to removing parent directory. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm seeing a crash when unloading the ath9k module. It seems relay_close() is being passed bad memory. The relay_open call uses an ath9k debugfs directory, so that may be removed before the call to relay_close() is called. Does relayfs automatically close files when the parent directory is removed? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com