.. and one more case of freeing a delayed work object (likely a kobject again): This time it looks like it's in the PCI layer, freeing the msi irq information. It looks like that code simply does kobject_del(&entry->kobj); kobject_put(&entry->kobj); list_del(&entry->list); kfree(entry); and the problem is that the "entry->kobj" may have *other* references to it, thanks to people accessing it through /sys, so despite doing a kojbect_del/kobject_put(), it's not at all ok to then do a "kfree()" on it. The embedded kobj might still be in use. Afaik, that code should do the kfree() on the kobject in the _release_ method, not synchronously like that. We already have a msi_kobj_release(), I'm wondering why that doesn't do the kfree(). Bjorn? Yinghai? Greg, comments about that msi kobj usage? Linus --- [ 2373.142964] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: stop [ 2373.143023] kobject: 'pn544' (ffff88011808f810): kobject_release, parent (null) (delayed) [ 2373.143076] kobject: '59' (ffff8800d268f648): kobject_release, parent (null) (delayed) [ 2373.143080] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 2373.143087] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2922 at lib/debugobjects.c:260 debug_print_object+0x83/0xa0() [ 2373.143094] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x20 [ 2373.143096] Modules linked in: fuse ipt_MASQUERADE ip6t_REJECT xt_conntrack bnep bluetooth ip6table_nat nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_nat_ipv6 ip6table_mangle ip6ta$ [ 2373.143159] CPU: 3 PID: 2922 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G W 3.12.0-rc6-00331-ga2ff82065b5b #2 [ 2373.143162] Hardware name: Sony Corporation SVP11213CXB/VAIO, BIOS R0270V7 05/17/2013 [ 2373.143164] 0000000000000009 ffff8800b74b5c20 ffffffff8160d4a2 ffff8800b74b5c68 [ 2373.143170] ffff8800b74b5c58 ffffffff810514e8 ffff8800b74a4f00 ffffffff81c365e0 [ 2373.143174] ffffffff819f9133 ffffffff81f4c1b0 0000000000000001 ffff8800b74b5cb8 [ 2373.143179] Call Trace: [ 2373.143189] [<ffffffff8160d4a2>] dump_stack+0x45/0x56 [ 2373.143195] [<ffffffff810514e8>] warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xa0 [ 2373.143200] [<ffffffff81051557>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x47/0x50 [ 2373.143204] [<ffffffff812f8883>] debug_print_object+0x83/0xa0 [ 2373.143209] [<ffffffff8106aa90>] ? execute_in_process_context+0x90/0x90 [ 2373.143214] [<ffffffff812f99fb>] debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x20b/0x250 [ 2373.143219] [<ffffffff8132d213>] ? free_msi_irqs+0x103/0x150 [ 2373.143224] [<ffffffff8115db59>] kfree+0x89/0x160 [ 2373.143227] [<ffffffff8132d213>] free_msi_irqs+0x103/0x150 [ 2373.143232] [<ffffffff8132dc8d>] pci_disable_msi+0x3d/0x60 [ 2373.143241] [<ffffffffa01d2211>] mei_me_remove+0x61/0xb0 [mei_me] [ 2373.143248] [<ffffffff81317796>] pci_device_remove+0x36/0xb0 [ 2373.143254] [<ffffffff813c6bea>] __device_release_driver+0x7a/0xe0 [ 2373.143260] [<ffffffff813c7568>] driver_detach+0xc8/0xd0 [ 2373.143266] [<ffffffff813c6816>] bus_remove_driver+0x96/0x120 [ 2373.143273] [<ffffffff813c7b77>] driver_unregister+0x27/0x50 [ 2373.143278] [<ffffffff813167ec>] pci_unregister_driver+0x1c/0x90 [ 2373.143286] [<ffffffffa01d3098>] mei_me_driver_exit+0x10/0xf78 [mei_me] [ 2373.143291] [<ffffffff810b857d>] SyS_delete_module+0x15d/0x2c0 [ 2373.143299] [<ffffffff81002929>] ? do_notify_resume+0x59/0x90 [ 2373.143305] [<ffffffff8161b9a2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 2373.143308] ---[ end trace 25f53c192da70827 ]--- [ 2373.143313] kobject: 'msi_irqs' (ffff880037327a18): kobject_release, parent ffff880119bb40a8 (delayed) [ 2373.143458] kobject: 'misc' (ffff8800d6487500): kobject_release, parent ffff880119bb40a8 (delayed) [ 2373.143463] kobject: 'mei' (ffff8800d35f3410): kobject_release, parent (null) (delayed) [ 2373.143607] kobject: 'mei_me' (ffff88003717ce00): kobject_release, parent ffff8801194b2818 (delayed) [ 2373.143670] kobject: 'drivers' (ffff8800d6487600): kobject_release, parent ffffffffa01d5330 (delayed) [ 2373.143678] kobject: 'holders' (ffff8800d6714700): kobject_release, parent ffffffffa01d5330 (delayed) [ 2373.143682] kobject: 'notes' (ffff8800d6714600): kobject_release, parent ffffffffa01d5330 (delayed) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html