Re: [PATCH] Fix ESP SA loading (by default)

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:03:18 +0100
> 
>> David Miller wrote:
>>> About the rmmod thing, we can do something similar to how
>>> we handle nesting of irq_regs().  Ie. there are things that
>>> push and pop the stack of ->error_desc.  rmmod operations
>>> could be one of those things
>> Alternatively we could simply strdup the error message (or copy it
>> to a reserved area to avoid running into memory allocation errors).
>> That avoids having to mess with foreign task structs when
>> unloading modules.
> 
> Since the error message is "const char *" I don't see why
> you'd need to strdup() it ever, just the pointer is fine.
> 
> Well, I guess we could run into problems with module unloading
> and the strings being from that module hmmm...

Yes, thats what I thought Alexey was referring to.