Bug#448479: ipw3945d: can fill up harddisk with logs in some cases
Package: ipw3945d
Version: 1.7.22-5
Severity: important
When removing the ipw3945 module with rmmod
(and not with modprobe -r like people should)
the ipw3945d is not stopped. So it fills the log with lines like :
2007-10-29 11:42:35: ERROR: opening
'/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/0000:0c:00.0/cmd':
No such file or directory (2)
2007-10-29 11:42:35: ERROR: Setting INIT state failed.
2007-10-29 11:42:35: ERROR: opening
'/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/0000:0c:00.0/cmd':
No such file or directory (2)
2007-10-29 11:42:35: ERROR: packet read failed: -2
The size of the log file grow rapidly, in 3 seconds it has written 12 MiB of
logs. With a sufficient amount of time, it can fill the partition it's in.
Step to reproduce :
- start the daemon and load the module.
- be prepared to have /var/log/ipw3945 filled up
- rmmod ipw3945
- watch the size of the log.
- stop the daemon
my / partition was filled up because of this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.1batchyx2.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ipw3945d depends on:
ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups
ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
Versions of packages ipw3945d recommends:
ii firmware-ipw3945 0.7 Binary firmware for Intel Wireless
-- no debconf information
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