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Commit 9c08a938 authored by Michael Richardson's avatar Michael Richardson Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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[PATCH] device_shutdown can loop if the driver frees itself



This patch changes device_shutdown() to use the newly introduced safe
reverse list traversal.  We experienced loops on system reboot if we had
removed and re-inserted our device from the device list.

We noticed this problem on PPC405. Our PCI IDE device comes and goes a lot.

Our hypothesis was that there was a loop caused by the driver->shutdown
freeing memory.  It is possible that we do something wrong as well, but
being unable to reboot is kind of nasty.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Richardson <mcr@marajade.sandelman.ca>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 2d7b5a70
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