Hi, this is yet another ide-tape fix against ide-2.6.git/for-next. -- From: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:05:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ide-tape: fix proc warning When accessing ide-tape over the chrdev interface, I get [ 278.147906] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 278.152685] WARNING: at fs/proc/generic.c:847 remove_proc_entry+0x199/0x1b8() [ 278.160070] Hardware name: P4I45PE 1.00 [ 278.160076] remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'ide0/hdb', leaking at least 'name' [ 278.160080] Modules linked in: rtc intel_agp pcspkr thermal processor thermal_sys parport_pc parport agpgart button [ 278.160100] Pid: 2312, comm: mt Not tainted 2.6.30-rc2 #3 [ 278.160105] Call Trace: [ 278.160117] [<c012141d>] warn_slowpath+0x71/0xa0 [ 278.160126] [<c035f219>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x29/0x2c [ 278.160132] [<c011c686>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x1b6/0x1c0 [ 278.160141] [<c011c69b>] ? default_wake_function+0xb/0xd [ 278.160149] [<c0177ead>] ? pollwake+0x4a/0x55 [ 278.160156] [<c035f240>] ? _spin_unlock+0x24/0x26 [ 278.160163] [<c0165d38>] ? add_partial+0x44/0x49 [ 278.160169] [<c01669e8>] ? __slab_free+0xba/0x29c [ 278.160177] [<c01a13d8>] ? sysfs_delete_inode+0x0/0x3c [ 278.160184] [<c019ca92>] remove_proc_entry+0x199/0x1b8 [ 278.160191] [<c01a297e>] ? remove_dir+0x27/0x2e [ 278.160199] [<c025f3ab>] ide_proc_unregister_device+0x40/0x4c [ 278.160207] [<c02599cd>] drive_release_dev+0x14/0x47 [ 278.160214] [<c0250538>] device_release+0x35/0x5a [ 278.160221] [<c01f8bed>] kobject_release+0x40/0x50 [ 278.160226] [<c01f8bad>] ? kobject_release+0x0/0x50 [ 278.160232] [<c01f96ac>] kref_put+0x3c/0x4a [ 278.160238] [<c01f8b29>] kobject_put+0x37/0x3c [ 278.160243] [<c025020c>] put_device+0xf/0x11 [ 278.160249] [<c025789f>] ide_device_put+0x2d/0x30 [ 278.160255] [<c02658da>] ide_tape_put+0x24/0x32 [ 278.160261] [<c0266e0c>] idetape_chrdev_release+0x17f/0x18e [ 278.160269] [<c016c4f5>] __fput+0xca/0x175 [ 278.160275] [<c016c5b9>] fput+0x19/0x1b [ 278.160280] [<c0169d19>] filp_close+0x51/0x5b [ 278.160286] [<c0169d96>] sys_close+0x73/0xad [ 278.160293] [<c0102a61>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [ 278.160298] ---[ end trace f16d907ea1f89336 ]--- because it tries to free its proc entry in drive_release_dev() in the call chain resulting from ide_tape_put() but it chokes on /proc/ide/ide[01]/hd?/name which is added during driver registration and should go only at driver removal time. Add/remove those proc entries everytime the device is accessed. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ide/ide-tape.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c index 055f52e..9d9d771 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c @@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ static struct ide_tape_obj *ide_tape_get(struct gendisk *disk) else get_device(&tape->dev); } + ide_proc_register_driver(tape->drive, tape->driver); mutex_unlock(&idetape_ref_mutex); return tape; } @@ -261,6 +262,7 @@ static void ide_tape_put(struct ide_tape_obj *tape) ide_drive_t *drive = tape->drive; mutex_lock(&idetape_ref_mutex); + ide_proc_unregister_driver(drive, tape->driver); put_device(&tape->dev); ide_device_put(drive); mutex_unlock(&idetape_ref_mutex); -- 1.6.3.1 -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html