[ofa-general] Race condition in core/sysfs.c (kernel panic) when unloading the driver

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Sat Feb 21 23:15:24 PST 2009


 > I ran on RHEL5.2 ...

I suspect that at some point in the 2+ years since 2.6.18 more locking
was added to sysfs so that this race no longer exists.  You could try
and see if my test (add a sleep to the show method and make sure you
remove the low-level driver during that window) results in an instant
crash with the RHEL 5.2 kernel.

 - R.



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