Re: [PATCH 3/4] modules: proper cleanup of kobject without CONFIG_SYSFS

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Thu May 22 2008 - 21:52:03 EST


On Thursday 22 May 2008 21:44:21 Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 19:20 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 19:59:48 Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> > > kobject: '<NULL>' (ffffffffa0104050): is not initialized, yet
> > > kobject_put()
> >
> > AFAICT, module_sysfs_initialized is not ever set if !CONFIG_SYSFS.
> >
>
> Basically you miss
> static inline int mod_sysfs_init(struct module *mod)
> {
> return 0;
> }
> in include/linux/module.h
>
> So, without CONFIG_SYSFS a dummy stab for mod_sysfs_init is called.

Ah, thanks for the explanation.

Basically, this code is a dog's breakfast. There's no reason for this to be
in the header, and no reason for the other mod_sysfs_init() not to be static.
Ditto for most of the rest.

Patch applied, thanks!
Rusty.
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