Re: [BUG 2.6.17-git] kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache scsi_cmd_cache

[Erik Mouw]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:27:29AM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2006, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > I tracked it down with git bisect. The culprit is this commit:
> > 
> > 56cf6504fc1c0c221b82cebc16a444b684140fb7 is first bad commit
> > diff-tree 56cf6504fc1c0c221b82cebc16a444b684140fb7 (from
> > d98550e334715b2d9e45f8f0f4e1608720108640)
> > Author: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Fri May 5 17:57:52 2006 +0100
> > 
> >     [BLOCK] Fix oops on removal of SD/MMC card
> > 
> >     The block layer keeps a reference (driverfs_dev) to the struct
> >     device associated with the block device, and uses it internally
> >     for generating uevents in block_uevent.
> > 
> >     Block device uevents include umounting the partition, which can
> >     occur after the backing device has been removed.
> ...
> 
> THat's really weird... I reported a completely unrelated problem some
> days ago:
> 
> 	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114728598328769&w=2

AFAICS it's the same bug. Apparently you can trigger it with any scsi
host driver.


Erik

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