I don't like this. The problem is that sd_shutdown shouldn't even try to grab a reference to the scsi device, nevermind the HBA module. So I'd say this need a two step fix: (1) stop trying to call try_module_get from sd_shutdown (2) properly propagate the try_module_get return value -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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