On 4/16/07, Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
based on the discussion in "How should an exit routine wait for
release() callbacks?", I've cooked up some patches that make module
unload wait until the last reference for a kobject has been dropped.
This should plug the "release function in already deleted module" race;
however, if the last kobject_put() from the module containing the
release function is not in the module's exit function, there's still a
small window (not sure if and how to plug this).
Unfortunately all this "wait for refcount in module's exit" schemas
lead to the following deadlock:
rmmod my_module < /path/to/some/file/incrementing/my/refcount
--
Dmitry
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