Re: Module loading problem since 5.3

[Heiner Kallweit]

On 10.10.2019 19:15, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:50 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>     Â ÂMODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: realtek")
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>     Are you aware of any current issues with module loading
>     that could cause this problem?
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> Nope. But then again I was not aware of MODULE_SOFTDEP(). I'd encourage an extension to lib/kmod.c or something similar which stress tests this. One way that comes to mind to test this is to allow a new tests case which loads two drives which co depend on each other using this macro. That'll surely blow things up fast. That is, the current kmod tests uses request_module() or get_fs_type(), you'd want a new test case with this added using then two new dummy test drivers with the macro dependency.
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> If you want to resolve this using a more tested path, you could have request_module() be used as that is currently tested. Perhaps a test patch for that can rule out if it's the macro magic which is the issue.
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> Â Luis
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Maybe issue is related to a bug in introduction of symbol namespaces, see here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/11/659

Heiner