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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:21:03 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/72636: Detaching USB-Memorystick without prior umount can cause System panic
Message-ID:  <20041013132103.GP57641@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041013131900.GF769@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <200410131248.i9DCmdQq001303@freefall.freebsd.org> <20041013130113.GO57641@submonkey.net> <20041013131900.GF769@zaphod.nitro.dk>

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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:19:00PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2004.10.13 14:01:13 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:48:39PM +0000, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > > Synopsis: Detaching USB-Memorystick without prior umount can cause Sy=
stem panic
> > >=20
> > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > > State-Changed-By: simon
> > > State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 13 12:45:41 GMT 2004
> > > State-Changed-Why:=20
> > > This is a known problem which is mentioned many times in the mail
> > > archives, and probably also in few PR's.  People are working towards
> > > fixing this problem, but it's far from trivial.
> > > Close the PR since this is a well known long term TODO/TOFIX item.
> >=20
> > It should be either left open, or suspended at worst, until this is
> > corrected.  If someone is working on it, assign the PR to them, but do
> > not close problem reports for problems that are still ongoing please.
>=20
> As I noted I was pretty sure that there already were PR's for this
> (since this issue really comes up every few weeks on the mailing
> lists).  Anyway I just quickly checked and other PR's which deal with
> the same basic problem (which is that bad thing happens if devices
> disappear under a mounted file system):
>=20
>    72119 freebsd- kern     open      serious   medium   current-us Detach=
ing USB Memory Stick w/o umount causes zombie devfs node
>    30160 freebsd- kern     feedback  serious   medium   current-us [panic=
] kernel panic when flash disk is removed and the flash disk is mounted.
>    40787 freebsd- kern     open      serious   low      current-us kernel=
 panic if PCMCIA CD-drive with mounted medium is removed
>=20
> So I don't see the need to keep this PR open.

OK, it was the "probably" that threw me.

Cheers,

Ceri
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