On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Keith Owens wrote:
> Incrementing the use count at registration time is no good, it stops
> the module being unloaded. Operations are deregistered at rmmod time.
> Setting the use count at registration prevents rmmod from removing the
> module, so you cannot deregister the operations. Catch 22.
Right. So you should use try_inc_mod_count() before dereferencing the
registered pointers and treat failure as "not found".
> Module unload is not racy on UP without preempt. It is racy on SMP or
> with preempt. It used to be safe on SMP because almost everything was
> under the BKL, but that protection no longer exists.
<wry> You forgot "as long as nothing blocks". Which is more than brittle -
code changes routinely violate such warranties. </wry>
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