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* [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: cleanup proc fs entries upon exit
@ 2022-02-20 23:15 Tong Zhang
  2022-02-21 13:00 ` Dan Carpenter
  2022-02-21 17:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Tong Zhang @ 2022-02-20 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jakub Kicinski, Lee Jones, Colin Ian King,
	Saurav Girepunje, Johan Hovold, Tong Zhang, Cláudio Maia,
	linux-staging, linux-kernel

proc fs entries need to be removed when module is removed, otherwise
when we try to insert the module again, kernel will complain

[  493.068012] proc_dir_entry 'net/ieee80211' already registered
[  493.271973]  proc_mkdir+0x18/0x20
[  493.272136]  ieee80211_debug_init+0x28/0xde8 [r8192u_usb]
[  493.272404]  rtl8192_usb_module_init+0x10/0x161 [r8192u_usb]

[   13.910616] proc_dir_entry 'net/rtl819xU' already registered
[   13.918931]  proc_mkdir+0x18/0x20
[   13.919098]  rtl8192_usb_module_init+0x142/0x16d [r8192u_usb]

Signed-off-by: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c
index 364e1ca94f70..683afdc667bc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c
@@ -4825,6 +4825,11 @@ static int __init rtl8192_usb_module_init(void)
 static void __exit rtl8192_usb_module_exit(void)
 {
 	usb_deregister(&rtl8192_usb_driver);
+	remove_proc_entry(RTL819XU_MODULE_NAME, init_net.proc_net);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG
+	ieee80211_debug_exit();
+#endif
 
 	RT_TRACE(COMP_DOWN, "Exiting");
 }
-- 
2.25.1


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2022-02-20 23:15 [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: cleanup proc fs entries upon exit Tong Zhang
2022-02-21 13:00 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-02-21 13:05   ` Dan Carpenter
2022-02-21 17:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-02-23  5:43   ` Tong Zhang
2022-02-24  6:40   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: rtl8192u: fix broken debug macro Tong Zhang
2022-02-24  6:40   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] staging: rtl8192u: add empty debug functions Tong Zhang
2022-02-24  6:40   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] staging: rtl8192u: rework init and exit function Tong Zhang
2022-02-24  7:27     ` Dan Carpenter

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