Hi,
Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 01:16:36PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > Hi Lothar,
> >
> > On 18 Jul 11:31 AM, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> > > The first three patches do some source code cleanup in the files that
> > > are modified in the subsequent patches.
> > >
> >
> > I've applied patches 4 and 9 on a recent -next, after fixing a conflict
> > due to patch 3 ("usb: musb_am335x: source cleanup"):
> >
> > > Patch 4 carries the proper fix reported in commit:
> > > 7adb5c876e9c ("usb: musb: Fix panic upon musb_am335x module removal")
> > >
> > > Patch 9 reinstates module unloading support for the musb_am335x driver
> > > which was disabled due to a false failure analysis
> > >
> >
> > For these two patches, Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Tested on a beaglebone with a mass storage USB device, module load/unload
> > works without issues. The module_get/put in the phy is now preventing the
> > musb_am335x driver unload, which seems to be the real cause of the issue
> > I reported. Thanks for providing a proper fix!
>
> I don't that's a good fix. The problem is that even after am335x
> removing all its child, someone else tried to release the PHY. That
> ordering is the one that needs to be fixed. Doing a module_get on the
> parent device looks like a hack to me.
>
No. It guarantees that the module cannot be unloaded when its resources
are still in use!
Lothar Waßmann
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