Re: [PATCH update] firewire: reread config ROM when device reset the bus

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

I wrote:
> I wrote:
>>   - moved from dev->dem to idr_rwsem
>>   - extended note about semaphore protection of .config_rom and
>>     .config_rom_length
>>   - secure a few more places which access the config_rom...
>>     should have covered all of them now
> 
> Hmm.  When I power the PC down there are lots of messages scrolling by
> which look somewhat like lockdep spew.  I can't reproduce this merely by
> module unloading though.  So don't put this patch into production yet.

/...a few hundreds reboots later.../

No, it is not this patch.  It is something else.  And whatever it is, it 
is already present in 2.6.25-rc3.

To reproduce it, I need to plug an SBP-2 device in and out, then shut 
the machine down (e.g. shutdown -h now, whereas shutdown -r now does not 
seem to trigger the bug).

Since it happens after all filesystems were unmounted or r/o-mounted, I 
can't capture the log output easily (perhaps with a netconsole or so) 
but it also can't do any damage at that point anymore.

It does not happen with ohci1394 + sbp2, so it is obviously located in 
the firewire stack.

I am now gradually removing debug options from the kernel to see which 
debug facility is making the fuzz...
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Stefan Richter
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