The patch titled
AFS: remove all AFS /proc entries in module cleanup
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
afs-remove-all-afs-proc-entries-in-module-cleanup.patch
This patch was dropped because it is obsolete
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Subject: AFS: remove all AFS /proc entries in module cleanup
From: B N Poornima <poornima@xxxxxxxxxx>
This is regarding a bug in the 'kafs' module. Whenever the kafs module is
unloaded, it produces the following stack trace.
********************************************************************
kAFS: Red Hat AFS client v0.1 unregistering.
BUG: at fs/proc/generic.c:732 remove_proc_entry()
[<c0195380>] remove_proc_entry+0x11b/0x175
[<c013b52e>] sys_delete_module+0x1a5/0x1cf
[<c0158bc2>] remove_vma+0x36/0x3b
[<c01594ca>] do_munmap+0x193/0x1ac
[<c0103da0>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[<c02a0033>] nf_ip_checksum+0xd4/0xe1
=======================
***************************************************************
The problem is reproducible on the latest rc kernel - 2.6.20-rc5. The
cause of the problem being kafs driver trying to free the /proc/fs/afs
directory which is not empty.
Signed-off-by: B N Poornima <poornima@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/afs/proc.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/afs/proc.c~afs-remove-all-afs-proc-entries-in-module-cleanup fs/afs/proc.c
--- a/fs/afs/proc.c~afs-remove-all-afs-proc-entries-in-module-cleanup
+++ a/fs/afs/proc.c
@@ -177,9 +177,8 @@ int afs_proc_init(void)
void afs_proc_cleanup(void)
{
remove_proc_entry("cells", proc_afs);
-
+ remove_proc_entry("rootcell", proc_afs);
remove_proc_entry("fs/afs", NULL);
-
} /* end afs_proc_cleanup() */
/*****************************************************************************/
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from poornima@xxxxxxxxxx are
afs-remove-all-afs-proc-entries-in-module-cleanup.patch
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