Bug 6452
| Summary: | lance module oops on unloading | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Oleg Makarenko <omakarenko> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-11-04 23:31:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description Network driver lance.o unconditionaly oops on rmmod or auto unloading. The same was true with RH6.0 Conclusion. The following patch works for me. --- drivers/net/lance.c.orig Mon Aug 9 23:04:39 1999 +++ drivers/net/lance.c Wed Oct 27 22:07:16 1999 @@ -349,11 +349,11 @@ for (this_dev = 0; this_dev < MAX_CARDS; this_dev++) { struct device *dev = &dev_lance[this_dev]; if (dev->priv != NULL) { - kfree(dev->priv); - dev->priv = NULL; free_dma(dev->dma); release_region(dev->base_addr, LANCE_TOTAL_SIZE); unregister_netdev(dev); + kfree(dev->priv); + dev->priv = NULL; } } }