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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] module: remove over-zealous check in __module_get()
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 18:15:56 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902071815.56926.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)

Impact: fix spurious BUG_ON() triggered under load

module_refcount() isn't reliable outside stop_machine(), as demonstrated
by Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>, networking can trigger it under load
(an inc on one cpu and dec on another while module_refcount() is tallying
 can give false results, for example).

Almost noone should be using __module_get, but that's another issue.

Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
---
 include/linux/module.h |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -407,7 +407,6 @@ static inline void __module_get(struct m
 static inline void __module_get(struct module *module)
 {
 	if (module) {
-		BUG_ON(module_refcount(module) == 0);
 		local_inc(__module_ref_addr(module, get_cpu()));
 		put_cpu();
 	}

                 reply	other threads:[~2009-02-07  7:46 UTC|newest]

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