From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proposed module init race fix.
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:06:43 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030115090757.DB0522C109@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:46:26 -0800." <200301150846.AAA01104@adam.yggdrasil.com>
In message <200301150846.AAA01104@adam.yggdrasil.com> you write:
> On 2003-01-15, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >It's possible to start using a module, and then have it fail
> >initialization. In 2.4, this resulted in random behaviour. One
> >solution to this is to make all interfaces two-stage: reserve
> >everything you need (which might fail), the activate them. This
> >means changing about 1600 modules, and deprecating every interface
> >they use.
>
> Could you explain this "random behavior" of 2.4 a bit more?
> As far as I know, if a module's init function fails, it must
> unregister everything that it has registered up to that point.
And if someone's using it, the module gets unloaded underneath them.
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-15 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-15 8:46 [PATCH] Proposed module init race fix Adam J. Richter
2003-01-15 9:06 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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2003-01-15 14:21 Petr Vandrovec
2003-01-16 1:48 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-16 2:55 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-01-15 8:24 Rusty Russell
2003-01-15 16:34 ` Roman Zippel
2003-01-17 1:38 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-17 15:35 ` Roman Zippel
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