Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423130AbXBUVQb (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:16:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423132AbXBUVQb (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:16:31 -0500 Received: from mail.parknet.jp ([210.171.160.80]:1936 "EHLO parknet.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423125AbXBUVQ3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:16:29 -0500 X-AuthUser: hirofumi@parknet.jp To: Greg KH Cc: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki \/ \?$B5HF#1QL\@" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers Subject: Re: request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 (is Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1) References: <20070222.012356.27907445.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> <87ps8372bf.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp> <20070221203652.GB17830@kroah.com> From: OGAWA Hirofumi Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:16:23 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20070221203652.GB17830@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Wed\, 21 Feb 2007 12\:36\:52 -0800") Message-ID: <87abz75hzs.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1514 Lines: 38 Greg KH writes: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:12:04AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: >> YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ writes: >> >> > In article (at Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:53:45 -0800 (PST)), Linus Torvalds 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. >> >> /sbin/hotplug needs some module, but request_module() call /sbin/hotplug loop? >> Hm.. does the patch fix the problem? > > How does it loop? E.g. something calls the request_modle(), and if hotplug is using socket(PF_UNIX) and af_unix is module, it also calls request_modle()? Just my guess though... -- OGAWA Hirofumi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/