Re: 2.6.25 sysdev API problem

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:56:39PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> In kernels up to and including 2.6.24, it was possible to
> register-then-unregister a sysdev_class/sys_device pair
> multiple times. Starting with the 2.6.24-git1 kernel, doing
> so causes a warning
> 
> kobject (f88e96c8): tried to init an initialized object, something is seriously wrong

This is a warning only, I have a patch queued up to fix this.  I've
included it below.

> the second time the class/device pair is registered, followed
> soon thereafter by random BUG()s and a kernel panic.

That's odd.  I don't think that is related, but it might be.  Can you
try the patch and let me know if it still happens?

thanks,

greg k-h


From: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:23:18 +0530
Subject: kobjects: mark cleaned up kobjects as unitialized
To: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Message-ID: <200803062223.18857.balajirrao@gmail.com>
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When I remove only the kvm-intel module without removing the kvm module
itself, I get an error saying that a kobject is trying to be
reinitialized. Its because of the fact that kvm reuses a kobject in
kvm_init when calling sysdev_register.

This patch fixes kobject_cleanup by marking the kobject as uninitialized
when we cleanup to allow kobjects to be reused.

Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 lib/kobject.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -577,6 +577,9 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(struct kobje
 		pr_debug("kobject: '%s': free name\n", name);
 		kfree(name);
 	}
+
+	/* Set the state to uninitialized */
+	kobj->state_initialized = 0;
 }
 
 static void kobject_release(struct kref *kref)