Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 37, Issue 37

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   1. Re: Can't cleanly unload driver (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)


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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 00:13:08 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Subject: Re: Can't cleanly unload driver
To: Eric Fowler <redacted>
Cc: kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
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On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:33:50 -0800, Eric Fowler said:

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I suspect I am doing something wrong in the code with
register/unregister_chrdev(), but I have been over that code a million
times. It looks fine.

Now:
insmod the device, OK
rmmod the device, OK
Check /proc/devices , device # is present
insmod the device again, fails with ERROR: could not insert module
./foobar.ko: Device or resource busy

It does smell like an unregister issue.  You may want to try adding
printk() calls to print out the return code from register and unregister.
I'm willing to bet that (a) the unegister is failing because somebody
still has a reference on the device, and (b) the second register call fails
because the device already exists, causing your module_init() to bail out.

The fun is that you may not have taken a reference on the device directly
yourself - you may have called some other get_foo() that ends up taking an
implicit reference under the covers, causing issues when you fail to call
put_foo() at the right place...
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