Re: Badness in atomic_dec_and_test in 2.6.0-test9-mm2

[Mike Anderson]

Bradley Chapman [kakadu_croc@xxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> (I sent a previous version of this e-mail to the linux-scsi and usb-storage
> mailinglists mentioned in MAINTAINERS, but received no response)
> 
> When I unplug my USB Mass Storage device after unmounting it, I get the following
> badness message:

Greg posted a response the other day to a query from Alan Stern. Here is
the link 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106835250124362&w=2

This should be the same problem that you are hitting.

A patch was checked into Linus's tree on 2003-11-07 by Greg that made a
couple line change to class.c.

Here is the patch in case you need to stay on mm2.

-andmike
--
Michael Anderson
andmike@xxxxxxxxxx

--- 1.41/drivers/base/class.c	Fri Aug 29 14:18:26 2003
+++ 1.42/drivers/base/class.c	Fri Nov  7 06:48:28 2003
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@
 
 void class_device_initialize(struct class_device *class_dev)
 {
+	kobj_set_kset_s(class_dev, class_obj_subsys);
 	kobject_init(&class_dev->kobj);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&class_dev->node);
 }
@@ -277,7 +278,6 @@
 
 	/* first, register with generic layer. */
 	kobject_set_name(&class_dev->kobj, class_dev->class_id);
-	kobj_set_kset_s(class_dev, class_obj_subsys);
 	if (parent)
 		class_dev->kobj.parent = &parent->subsys.kset.kobj;
 
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