Re: Probable module bug in linux-2.6.5-1.358

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 18:08 -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> The attached script shows that an attempt to open a device
> after its module was removed, will seg-fault the kernel.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> Penguin : Linux version 2.6.5-1.358-noreg on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips).
>              Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.



Oct  6 17:03:30 chaos kernel: Analogic Corp Datalink Driver : Module
removed

The bug is in that driver. It needs to unregister the character device
in it's module remove routine.  It doesn't appear to be in the main
kernel source tree so bug Redhat or the vendor.

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