trivial to reproduce: modprobe aic7xxx mount -t ext3 -o data=writeback /dev/sda4 /media/zip ls -l /media/zip umount /media/zip rmmod aic7xxx ---> oops Oct 1 20:45:56 midway kernel: [42954270.510000] EXT3 FS on sda4, internal journal Oct 1 20:45:56 midway kernel: [42954270.510000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Oct 1 20:45:56 midway hal.hotplug[14632]: DEVPATH is not set Oct 1 21:24:46 midway syslog-ng[2237]: STATS: dropped 0 Oct 1 21:29:27 midway hal.hotplug[23883]: DEVPATH is not set Oct 1 21:45:03 midway kernel: [42957801.730000] sda: Spinning up disk............ready Oct 1 21:45:03 midway kernel: [42957816.350000] SCSI device sda: 2091050 512-byte hdwr sectors (1071 MB) Oct 1 21:45:03 midway kernel: [42957816.350000] sda: Write Protect is off Oct 1 21:45:03 midway kernel: [42957816.350000] sda: Mode Sense: 39 00 10 08 Oct 1 21:45:03 midway kernel: [42957816.360000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Oct 1 21:45:03 midway kernel: [42957816.360000] SCSI device sda: 2091050 512-byte hdwr sectors (1071 MB) Oct 1 21:45:03 midway kernel: [42957816.360000] sda: Write Protect is off Oct 1 21:45:03 midway kernel: [42957816.360000] sda: Mode Sense: 39 00 10 08 Oct 1 21:45:03 midway kernel: [42957816.370000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Oct 1 21:45:03 midway kernel: [42957816.370000] sda: sda4 Oct 1 21:45:03 midway /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[24030]: new block device /block/sda/sda4 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sda: Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e4bff163 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] printing eip: Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] f9f732a7 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] *pde = 00093067 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] *pte = 24bff000 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] Oops: 0002 [#1] Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] Modules linked in: aic7xxx usbhid usbserial video1394 ohci1394 raw1394 ieee1394 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] CPU: 0 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] EIP: 0060:[<f9f732a7>] Not tainted VLI Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.14-rc3) Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] EIP is at ahc_linux_run_command+0x58f/0x6ce [aic7xxx] Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] eax: 00000003 ebx: e39f9df8 ecx: 00000063 edx: e4bff100 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] esi: e42c8034 edi: e35c0100 ebp: daaa9bd0 esp: daaa9ba8 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] Process rmmod (pid: 24065, threadinfo=daaa8000 task=cb79baf0) Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] Stack: c180af60 daaa9bcc 00000003 4180af60 e42c8034 e39f9e30 cf612eb0 cf612eb0 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] e4eaef5c e3a00bf8 daaa9bec f9f7193c e39f9df8 e4eaef5c cf612eb0 00000293 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] e3a00bf8 daaa9c10 c02c22cb cf612eb0 c02c2487 00000000 ded7ff58 ded7ff58 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] Call Trace: Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c0103671>] show_stack+0x7a/0x82 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c0103785>] show_registers+0xf4/0x15d Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c0103948>] die+0xe2/0x15b Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c0381a14>] do_page_fault+0x383/0x52c Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c010336f>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<f9f7193c>] ahc_linux_queue+0x51/0x5c [aic7xxx] Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02c22cb>] scsi_dispatch_cmd+0x209/0x293 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02c7c0c>] scsi_request_fn+0x287/0x31b Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02865ba>] __generic_unplug_device+0x20/0x25 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02865d7>] generic_unplug_device+0x18/0x28 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02871a9>] blk_execute_rq_nowait+0x38/0x3d Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c0287254>] blk_execute_rq+0xa6/0xcd Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02c6ae4>] scsi_execute+0xaf/0xc9 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02c6b4f>] scsi_execute_req+0x51/0x76 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02cfbd9>] sd_sync_cache+0x4f/0xab Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02d114e>] sd_shutdown+0x34/0x39 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02d108e>] sd_remove+0x1c/0x5f Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02803be>] __device_release_driver+0x56/0x70 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c0280400>] device_release_driver+0x28/0x3b Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c027fcd9>] bus_remove_device+0x57/0x69 Oct 1 21:51:27 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c027eeef>] device_del+0x2f/0x5e Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02ca764>] __scsi_remove_device+0x2e/0x69 Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02c9a44>] scsi_forget_host+0x3b/0x62 Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02c2dd1>] scsi_remove_host+0x76/0xde Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<f9f7289e>] ahc_platform_free+0x29/0x148 [aic7xxx] Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<f9f679ca>] ahc_free+0x79/0xc8 [aic7xxx] Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<f9f75345>] ahc_linux_pci_dev_remove+0x41/0x48 [aic7xxx] Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c01cba33>] pci_device_remove+0x1b/0x30 Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c02803be>] __device_release_driver+0x56/0x70 Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c028048a>] driver_detach+0x77/0x8d Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c027fe9f>] bus_remove_driver+0x3e/0x5d Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c0280745>] driver_unregister+0xd/0x1a Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c01cbc4f>] pci_unregister_driver+0x10/0x1b Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<f9f7552a>] ahc_linux_pci_exit+0xd/0xf [aic7xxx] Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<f9f7495b>] ahc_linux_exit+0x8/0x1a [aic7xxx] Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c012ee35>] sys_delete_module+0x14a/0x185 Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] [<c01027ef>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 Oct 1 21:51:28 midway kernel: [42958200.670000] Code: 8b 4d e8 8b 41 20 f6 40 08 01 74 06 8b 01 80 48 1a 80 8b 75 e8 8b 5d 08 8b 06 0f b6 8b 1f 01 00 00 8b 93 24 01 00 00 0f b6 40 1b <88> 04 11 8b 83 0c 01 00 00 0f b6 8b 1f 01 00 00 fe c1 a8 40 88 --- ~Randy - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html