>
>
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > Bug-Entry :
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10390
> > Subject : Oops while reading /proc/ioports or /proc/iomem
> > Submitter : Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> > Date : 2008-04-03 15:25 (1 days old)
> > References :
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/3/149
>
> This sounds very much like some module registered IO ports/memory and was
> then unloaded without unregistering them.
>
> It's a bit hard to guess which module it is, though. The oops says "[last
> unloaded: parport]", so that's likely to be the area.
>
> So I *suspect* this patch might be relevant. Bug apparently introduced in
> f63fd7e299ee13da071ecfce2b90b58c5e1562b1 ("parport_pc: detection for
> SuperIO IT87XX POST") by Petr Cvek.
>
> Petr?
>
> Linus
>
> ---
> drivers/parport/parport_pc.c | 3 +--
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c b/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
> index d76d37b..a858089 100644
> --- a/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
> +++ b/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
> @@ -1568,9 +1568,8 @@ static void __devinit detect_and_report_it87(void)
> outb(r | 8, 0x2F);
> outb(0x02, 0x2E); /* Lock */
> outb(0x02, 0x2F);
> -
> - release_region(0x2e, 1);
> }
> + release_region(0x2e, 1);
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO */
