2.6.25.11-97.fc9 (P): idr_remove called for id=236 which is not allocated

["Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

Hi,

First the confessions: It's fedora-patched kernel, 2.6.25.11-97.fc9,
tainted by NVIDIA driver. So feel free to drop to /dev/null until I
can reproduce on a clean and recent kernel. (But -rc3 didn't boot for
me, and I don't have anything else handy atm.)

By bashing on random device nodes (with mknod + mmap as root), I got a
few messages of this kind:

idr_remove called for id=236 which is not allocated.
Pid: 3019, comm: a.out Tainted: P         2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 #1
 [<c04f030c>] idr_remove+0xd5/0x138
 [<c0540bfc>] release_dev+0x5bd/0x5cf
 [<c04909fd>] ? d_free+0x3b/0x4d
 [<c04955d0>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x16/0x69
 [<c048309d>] ? __fput+0x149/0x151
 [<c0540d8c>] tty_release+0x12/0x1c
 [<c0483001>] __fput+0xad/0x151
 [<c04830bc>] fput+0x17/0x19
 [<c04807df>] filp_close+0x50/0x5a
 [<c0480852>] sys_close+0x69/0xa1
 [<c0405bf2>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
 [<c0620000>] ? agp_amd64_probe+0x134/0x3ee
 =======================

idr_remove called for id=127 which is not allocated.
Pid: 3019, comm: a.out Tainted: P         2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 #1
 [<c04f030c>] idr_remove+0xd5/0x138
 [<c0540bfc>] release_dev+0x5bd/0x5cf
 [<c04909fd>] ? d_free+0x3b/0x4d
 [<c04955d0>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x16/0x69
 [<c048309d>] ? __fput+0x149/0x151
 [<c0540d8c>] tty_release+0x12/0x1c
 [<c0483001>] __fput+0xad/0x151
 [<c04830bc>] fput+0x17/0x19
 [<c04807df>] filp_close+0x50/0x5a
 [<c0480852>] sys_close+0x69/0xa1
 [<c0405bf2>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
 =======================

It looks scary. Or is it purely my own fault?

Thanks,


Vegard

-- 
"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
	-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036