Re: [BUG] object: is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is beingcalled

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Heinz Diehl wrote:

> On 12.08.2010, Heinz Diehl wrote: 
> 
> > > >>Could please those of you, who are able to reproduce the problem, verify
> > > >>whether the patch below (completely untested) makes everything behave
> > > >>again? Thanks.
>  
> > > >Yes, everything behaves again. Thanks Jiri.
>   
> > > Seconded. Works good. Thanks for your support Jiri.
>  
> > Thirded! This fixes the warning here.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have to take up this problem a second time. 
> I considered the issue fixed, and in fact it was using Jiris patch.
> 
> However, the same problem came back while testing 2.6.36-rc4 and the
> following -git's. /var/log/warn shows the same warning as mentioned in
> the first mail in this thread:
> 
>  Sep 20 08:18:42 liesel apcupsd[5436]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 609 
>  Cannot find UPS device -- For a link to detailed USB trouble
>  shooting information, please see <http://www.apcupsd.com/support.html>.
>  Sep 20 08:18:42 liesel apcupsd[5436]: apcupsd error shutdown completed
> 
> No additional oops this time, only the warning, and my UPS is no longer
> working.
> 
> Jiris patch obviously didn't made it into 2.6.36-rc4, and it doesn't
> apply nay longer either.

No, you're wrong.  The patch _is_ in 2.6.36-rc4, and that's the reason 
why it doesn't apply any longer.

The error you see must have a different cause.  Have you read this 
thread?

	http://marc.info/?t=128494644600005&r=1&w=2

Alan Stern

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