Re: Cinergy C PCI HD with current v4l-dvb - PATCH for review/pull included

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Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> writes:
> Marko Ristola <marko.ristola@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> 4. There is some problem with rmmod mantis, do lsmod:
>> Module                  Size  Used by
>> tda10021                5486  4294967291
>> modprobe mantis
>> tda10021                5486  4294967292 mantis
>> So the reference count from mantis to tda10021 gets corrupted at rmmod.
>> I have Fedora 13 kernel, 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64
>
> FWIW, I do not see this running a Debian kernel (2.6.32-5-amd64) with a
> backported mantis driver (from 2.6.35-rc1).
>
> Module                  Size  Used by
> tda10021                4774  1 mantis
> # rmmod mantis
> tda10021                4774  0 
> # modprobe mantis
> tda10021                4774  1 mantis

Sorry, you are of course quite right, Marko: There is such a bug, and it
will in fact cause an oops if this double dereferencing causes a
frontend driver which is in use to be unloaded.  But it will only affect
the frontend drivers actually in use, which is why I didn't see it above
(my card uses tda10023).

The cause of this (and the unwanted loading of a gazillion unused
frontend drivers), is that the mantis driver doesn't use dvb_attach.

I will follow up with a patch to fix this



Bjørn

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