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Subject: Re: 2.5-bk oops in vsnprintf/scsi_mod
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"Bjoern A. Zeeb" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> got this one :(
> 
> bk pull from linux-20020923-211332 UTC
> 
> Linux megablast 2.5.38 #52 SMP Mon Sep 23 21:52:55 UTC 2002 i686 unknown
> gcc version 3.2
> binutils-2.13.90.0.4
> 
> could be related to sym53c416 module re-loading (after cli() removal; see
> diff I posted some minutes ago). Seems the driver needs more cleanup ...
> 

Well that driver seems to do a request_irq() with no corresponding
free_irq().  If that's the case (ie: if the free_irq isn't performed
in some driver support code) then yup, it will cause an oops in
show_interrupts() after module unload.
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