Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:22:30 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rsidd@online.fr Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb/105361: [panic] Kernel panic during unmounting mass storage (Creative mp3 player) Message-ID: <20070824.212230.-957833176.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200708241010.l7OAA7bl066026@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200708241010.l7OAA7bl066026@freefall.freebsd.org>
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"Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@online.fr> writes:
: The following reply was made to PR usb/105361; it has been noted by GNATS.
:
: From: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@online.fr>
: To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, linimon@freebsd.org
: Cc:
: Subject: Re: usb/105361: [panic] Kernel panic during unmounting mass storage (Creative mp3 player)
: Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:11:36 +0530
:
: linimon wrote:
: > Does this panic occur if you umnount the device before removal? (We are
: > aware of the problem if a device is removed before unmounting).
:
: I am experimenting with FreeBSD (7.0-CURRENT) after a few years. My
: USB stick was not initialised by the system: it was recognised but no
: device node was created. When I inserted and removed it a few times,
: the system panicked. (As I said, there was no device node, so no mounting.)
:
: I can submit a backtrace for this if anyone is interested.
:
: I followed the suggested change to usb_subr.c here:
: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-February/112698.html
: and, after this, the system creates a da0 device, and
: mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
: works. I haven't yet got a panic by unmounting and removing, but removing
: without unmounting does cause a panic still (as you say you are aware).
:
: Other than this issue FreeBSD-7 seems remarkably stable so far. But this
: problem with removable media has been around since floppy disk days, and
: really seems to preclude using FreeBSD on any desktop machine where
: uptime is important (eg, a compute workstation where long-term jobs
: are running).
We only do the clear endpoint stall in FreeBSD 7 when the device has
been quirked to do a clearstall. Is your device one that has this
quirk?
Warner
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