Hi, On 2/26/07, Chris Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6ceb
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EIP is at module_put+0x20/0x52 eax: 6b6b6ceb ebx: 6b6b6b6b ecx: 00000001 edx: e5bf0000 esi: e9040b08 edi: 6b6b6b6b ebp: eae0bb3c esp: e5bf0f58 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process udevd (pid: 18662, ti=e5bf0000 task=e6aaa030 task.ti=e5bf0000) Stack: eb3ff7bc c01839fe 00000010 ed009b7c ed9291d0 c015124b 00000000 00000000 f7ff2208 ed009b7c f7bd0678 00000000 ed009b7c c014ed88 00000003 00000003 f7bd0678 f7bd06f8 c014fd81 00000003 00000007 00000003 e5bf0000 c0102bce Call Trace: [<c01839fe>] sysfs_release+0x2d/0x4c [<c015124b>] __fput+0x96/0x13c
So udevd is closing a sysfs attribute file but the pointer passed to module_put is bogus. Looks like the sysfs dentry was already taken down by release_sysfs_dirent(). Can you reproduce this at will? Does the oops happen in older kernels? Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/