netdev - Re: 2.6.33 dies on modprobe

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Date:	Wed, 3 Mar 2010 23:16:02 +0100
From:	M G Berberich <berberic@....uni-passau.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33 dies on modprobe

Hello,

Am Dienstag, den 02. März schrieb Andrew Morton:

> It could be that some kobject on that list has become invalid (memory
> was freed, module was unloaded, etc) and later code stumbled across the
> now-invalid object on that list and then crashed.
> 
> What we can do to find this is to add a diagnostic each time an object
> is registered, and a diagnostic each time kset_find_obj() looks at the
> objects.  Then we'll see which kobject caused the crash, then we can
> look back and see where that kobject was registered from.

[...]

> This will generate a lot of output and we don't want to lose any of it.
>  I'd suggest setting up netconsole so all the output can be reliably
> saved: Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt

I have a serial connection to a netbook. Log attached.

	MfG
	bmg

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