On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 07:46:12PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > Even if userland "does" this, nothing stops another thread > from rmmod'ing the dependency in between the modloads. > > We have to handle this case properly in the kernel, no matter > what.
Right, if that had happened I think the reasonable response would be to fail the subsequent load for lack of dependency rather than looping around forever. However, I don't think that's what Brandon is seeing here, unless there is something performing the rmmod? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
