From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: brandon@ifup.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: Fixing gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c.
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:45:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100320034531.GA31798@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100319.194612.226782074.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 07:46:12PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> Even if userland "does" this, nothing stops another thread
> from rmmod'ing the dependency in between the modloads.
>
> We have to handle this case properly in the kernel, no matter
> what.
Right, if that had happened I think the reasonable response would
be to fail the subsequent load for lack of dependency rather than
looping around forever.
However, I don't think that's what Brandon is seeing here, unless
there is something performing the rmmod?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-20 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-19 23:40 Fixing gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c Brandon Philips
2010-03-20 1:01 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-20 1:08 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-20 2:46 ` David Miller
2010-03-20 3:45 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2010-03-20 4:21 ` Brandon Philips
2010-03-20 4:24 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-20 5:23 ` David Miller
2010-03-20 12:29 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-20 13:16 ` Neil Horman
2010-03-29 23:06 ` Rusty Russell
2010-03-31 19:03 ` Brandon Philips
2010-03-31 23:25 ` Rusty Russell
2010-03-30 16:50 ` Brandon Philips
2010-03-30 17:47 ` Kay Sievers
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