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From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init_module.2: Add ETXTBSY error for finit_module
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:37:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a08d1e1-4bed-2428-e29f-8b7cb37294b4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1637136967-13028-1-git-send-email-xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com>

Hi Yang,

On 11/17/21 09:16, Yang Xu wrote:
> Since kernel commit[1], finit_module fails with ETXTBSY error if fd has write permission.
> Since kernel commit[2], finit_module fails with EBADF error if fd doesn't have read permission.
> 
> So we can use read-write permission to trigger ETXTBSY error all the time since linux 4.7.
> 
> [1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=39d637af
> [2]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=032146cd
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com>
> ---
>   man2/init_module.2 | 7 +++++++
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/init_module.2 b/man2/init_module.2
> index aac0c6631..2bcbaf4c3 100644
> --- a/man2/init_module.2
> +++ b/man2/init_module.2
> @@ -242,6 +242,13 @@ is invalid.
>   .B ENOEXEC
>   .I fd
>   does not refer to an open file.
> +.TP
> +.BR ETXTBSY " (since Linux 4.7)"
> +.\" commit 39d637af5aa7577f655c58b9e55587566c63a0af
> +The file referred to by
> +.I fd
> +is opened for read-write.
> +.

Please, remove that trailing '.'

Thanks,
Alex

>   .PP
>   In addition to the above errors, if the module's
>   .I init
> 

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-22 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-17  8:16 [PATCH] init_module.2: Add ETXTBSY error for finit_module Yang Xu
2021-11-22 16:37 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
2021-11-23  0:59   ` [PATCH v2] " Yang Xu
2021-11-23 11:07     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

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