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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inet_diag: make config INET_DIAG bool
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:32:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348486346.26828.511.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50603355.4010001@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 18:17 +0800, Gao feng wrote:
> 于 2012年09月24日 17:42, Eric Dumazet 写道:
> > In fact I didnt fully understand the problem you try to address.
> > 
> > If you want to prevent module being unloaded, you need to add proper
> > module_get()/module_put()
> > 
> > So I would add a "struct module *module;" in struct sock_diag_handler
> > and use it appropriately.
> 
> Yes, I try to add reference of the module,but I can't find a proper
> location to call module_get and module_put.
> 
> module_get should be called when userspace program use netlink to
> send dump request to the kernel,and module_put should be called when
> the dump is completed. I am right?
> 
> BUT the userspace program may only call netlink_sendmsg without call
> netlink_recvmsg.so the reference of the module will be incorrect.

check ->dump() and ->done() methods

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-24 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-23  3:49 [PATCH] inet_diag: make config INET_DIAG bool Gao feng
2012-09-23  4:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-09-23 13:40   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-09-24  8:48     ` Gao feng
2012-09-24  9:42       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-24 10:17         ` Gao feng
2012-09-24 11:32           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-09-25  2:18             ` Gao feng

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