From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yi Chen <yiche@redhat.com>
Subject: modprobe returns 0 upon -EEXIST from insmod
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 01:33:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aKEVQhJpRdiZSliu@orbyte.nwl.cc> (raw)
Hi,
I admittedly didn't fully analyze the cause, but on my system a call to:
# insmod /lib/module/$(uname -r)/kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ftp.ko
fails with -EEXIST (due to a previous call to 'nfct add helper ftp inet
tcp'). A call to:
# modprobe nf_conntrack_ftp
though returns 0 even though module loading fails. Is there a bug in
modprobe error status handling?
Cheers, Phil
next reply other threads:[~2025-08-16 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-16 23:33 Phil Sutter [this message]
2025-08-17 15:54 ` modprobe returns 0 upon -EEXIST from insmod Christophe Leroy
2025-08-18 9:34 ` Phil Sutter
2025-08-18 10:07 ` Christophe Leroy
2025-08-18 10:56 ` Phil Sutter
2025-08-19 8:52 ` Petr Pavlu
2025-08-19 14:17 ` Lucas De Marchi
2025-08-19 14:32 ` Christophe Leroy
2025-10-08 6:41 ` Lucas De Marchi
2025-10-09 13:47 ` Petr Pavlu
2025-10-09 14:13 ` Lucas De Marchi
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