Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:53:53 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] oops in sd_shutdown |
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 12:28:44AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > I see an Oops in the SCSI code, caused by the fact that sdkp is NULL > in sd_shutdown. "How can that be?", you will ask - dev->driver_data was set > in sd_probe. But in my case sd_probe never finished. An insmod usb-storage > hangs forever, or at least for more than six hours, giving ample opportunity > to observe this race between sd_probe and sd_shutdown. > (Of course sd_probe hangs in sd_revalidate disk.)
Well, this same problem could show upb in any other driver. Could you instead send a patch to Pat that the driver model never calls the shutdown method for a driver that hasn't finished ->probe?
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