From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:45:33 -0600
> > It is not safe to to place struct pernet_operations in a special section. > We need struct pernet_operations to last until we call > unregister_pernet_subsys. > Which doesn't happen until module unload. > > So marking struct pernet_operations is a disaster for modules in two ways. > - We discard it before we call the exit method it points to. > - Because I keep struct pernet_operations on a linked list discarding > it for compiled in code removes elements in the middle of a linked > list and does horrible things for linked insert. > > So this looks safe assuming __exit_refok is not discarded > for modules. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks Eric. Although juding by his comments I though that Denis had different plans in mind to fix this. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
