On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 06:04:16PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
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> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
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> > kern_mount currently forgets to increase the module count of the file system,
> > leading to negative module count after umount.
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> That's because it is not supposed to be used more than once or to be
> undone by umount(). If it _would_ increment the counter you would be
> unable to get rid of the module once it's loaded. What are you actually
> trying to do?
It is not even done once. I was just writing a small module that registers
a private file system similar to sockfs.
IMHO kern_mount should increase the count so that it is symmetric with
kern_umount
-Andi
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