kern/72636: Detaching USB-Memorystick without prior umount can cause System panic

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Oct 13 16:32:36 PDT 2004


On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:01:13PM +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 System panic
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: simon
> > State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 13 12:45:41 GMT 2004
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

That encourages duplicate PRs :) Shouldn't you leave the earliest PR
describing the problem open, and close the rest with pointers to it?

Kris

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