Re: Revert "module: error out early on concurrent load of the same module file"

From: Sedat Dilek
Date: Mon May 29 2023 - 23:38:27 EST


On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 7:33 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 12:18 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Building from scratch with latest Linus Git including:
> >
> > Revert "module: error out early on concurrent load of the same module file"
> > https://git.kernel.org/linus/ac2263b588dffd3a1efd7ed0b156ea6c5aea200d
>
> So just to confirm: both plain 6.4 _and_ with that revert hangs?
>
> The revert is pure "go back to old state", so the revert really
> shouldn't cause any problems what-so-ever.
>
> So if rc4 doesn't boot for you, and the revert also didn't fix it for
> you, then there is something else going on.
>
> There have been other module changes during the merge window, and
> obviously it might be entirely unrelated to modules too. Can you try
> to narrow down when it started failing?
>

I was able to boot into my system again with the reverted commit.
Note: Ext4-FS was built as module.

-Sedat-