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Message-ID: <20081029094041.GO11214@vanheusden.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:40:49 +0100 From: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com> To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.26] kobject_add_internal failed for 2:0 with -EEXIST / unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in sysfs_create_link > > While running my http://vanheusden.com/pyk/ script (which randomly > > inserts and removes modules) I triggered the folllowing oops in a 2.6.26 > > kernel on an IBM xSeries 260. This oops (in fact no oops at all) did not > > get triggered in a 2.6.18 kernel on that system. > > > > [ 42.507375] FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 > > [ 42.509057] kobject_add_internal failed for 2:0 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. > > [ 42.509291] Pid: 5301, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 > > [ 42.509431] > > [ 42.509433] Call Trace: > > [ 42.509685] [<ffffffff8031b031>] kobject_add_internal+0x13f/0x17e > > [ 42.509823] [<ffffffff8031b46e>] kobject_add+0x74/0x7c > > [ 42.509969] [<ffffffff802e2470>] sysfs_addrm_finish+0x19/0x1ea > > [ 42.510141] [<ffffffff802e21b4>] sysfs_find_dirent+0x1b/0x2f > > [ 42.510331] [<ffffffff802e2741>] create_dir+0x5a/0x87 > > [ 42.510466] [<ffffffff8031ae88>] kobject_get+0x12/0x17 > > [ 42.510614] [<ffffffff80382771>] get_device+0x17/0x20 > > [ 42.510754] [<ffffffff80382d81>] device_add+0x9b/0x53f > > [ 42.510915] [<ffffffff8031acf2>] kobject_init+0x41/0x69 > > [ 42.511374] [<ffffffff803832d1>] device_create_vargs+0x9a/0xc6 > > [ 42.511519] [<ffffffff8027d23b>] bdi_register+0x57/0xb4 > > Looks like bdi sees two devices with the same devnum, or didn't > cleanup an old entry. > What does: ls -l "/sys/class/bdi/" print? The following: folkert@...iantesthw:~$ ls -l /sys/class/bdi/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:10 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:11 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:13 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:14 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:15 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:3 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:5 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:6 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:7 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 1:9 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 2:0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 2:1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 254:0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 254:1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 254:2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 254:3 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 254:4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 254:5 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 3:0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-29 11:39 7:0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-29 11:39 7:1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-29 11:39 7:2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-29 11:39 7:3 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-29 11:39 7:4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-29 11:39 7:5 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-29 11:39 7:6 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-29 11:39 7:7 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 8:0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-10-28 18:32 default > How many floppies (or emulated floppies) does this system have? 1 physical. Folkert van Heusden -- Ever wonder what is out there? Any alien races? Then please support the seti@...e project: setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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