request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 (is Re: Linux2.6.21-rc1)

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

Hello.

In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702202043280.4043@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:53:45 -0800 (PST)), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

> But there's a ton of architecture updates (arm, mips, powerpc, x86, you 
> name it), ACPI updates, and lots of driver work. And just a lot of 
> cleanups.

I cannot boot 2.6.21-rc1; it falls into OOM-Killer.

Interesting error message I can see is:
   request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1

After bisecting, the commit
  Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent
(id c353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f) is to blame.

Reverting it fixes the issue to me.

Regards,

--yoshfuji
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