On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:24:00PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:53:44PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > rmmod your_turd </sys/spew/from/your_turd
> > > and there you go. rmmod can _NOT_ wait for sysfs references to go away.
> >
> > To be fair, the only part of the kernel that supports the above process,
> > is the network stack. And they implemented a special kind of lock to
> > handle just this kind of thing.
> >
> > That is not something that I want the rest of the kernel to have to use.
> > If your code blocks when doing the above thing, that's fine with me.
>
> One word: fail. With -EBUSY.
>
> > Note, you better have the module owner reference right for the above to
> > not oops the kernel, deadlock is fine.
>
> Never is.
My apologies, you are right, for some reason I thought rmmod would just
wait for the reference count to go away. I just tested this on a lot of
different things in sysfs and it works properly and rmmod will return an
error saying the module is in use at this time.
> > There is no rule that we _have_
> > to allow rmmod to always succeed.
>
> Quite so, which means we can have it fail saying that module removal has
> failed. Deadlock is not the same thing.
Agreed.
thanks,
greg k-h
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