linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Unregister features interface on module unload

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:10:12 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Unregister features interface on module unload

On 01/18/2011 01:41 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/17/2011 12:09 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
>> On 01/17/2011 09:00 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote:
>>> Ext4 features interface was not properly unregistered which led to
>>> problems while unloading/reloading ext4 module. This commit fixes that by
>>> adding proper kobject unregistration code into ext4_exit_fs() as well as
>>> fail-path of ext4_init_fs()
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
>>> Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
>> Works for me!
>>
> I may have spoken too soon.  After a few insmod/mount/io/umount/rmmod loops I got:
> 
> [   95.625277] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP 
> 

Sorry, I think this is Yet Another Problem and your patch is fine;
reverting the whole features advert commit and doing the same test
yields the same failure.

-Eric
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