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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:34:43 +0200
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:20:48 +0200,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> Cool. However, there's something fishy there (not sure whether it's in
> your patch or a latent bug in the ccw bus code that just has been
> uncovered):

Similar bug when loading/unloading a module that creates a driver
attribute. The winner seems to be kfree(sd->s_element) in
release_sysfs_dirent() (in case of an attribute, it will point to the
attribute structure, which is usually statically created)...