From: Thomas Kleffel When a mounted CF-Card is removed from the system, inserted back into the slot, removed again, and then umount is called for that device the kernel oopes. This happens because the reference counting gets confused. When a disk gets released by ide_disk_release() it sets the driver_data member of the corresponding drive to NULL. This is bad, as the pyhsical drive could be assigned to another idkp structure in the meantime (happens, when the drive is removed and inserted again). My fix is to simply leave the drive alone when a disk is released. This shouldn't cause any side-effects - drive->driver_data isn't tested for containing NULL anywhere. Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/ide/ide-disk.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/ide/ide-disk.c~fix-kernel-oops-with-cf-cards drivers/ide/ide-disk.c --- 25/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c~fix-kernel-oops-with-cf-cards Wed Sep 7 15:02:29 2005 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c Wed Sep 7 15:02:29 2005 @@ -1048,11 +1048,8 @@ static int ide_disk_remove(struct device static void ide_disk_release(struct kref *kref) { struct ide_disk_obj *idkp = to_ide_disk(kref); - ide_drive_t *drive = idkp->drive; struct gendisk *g = idkp->disk; - drive->driver_data = NULL; - drive->devfs_name[0] = '\0'; g->private_data = NULL; put_disk(g); kfree(idkp); _