From: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>
To: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>,
Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] module: fix lost error code from codetag_load_module()
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909234838.3-da.gomez@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9acf2cd9-b808-42f0-bc86-7ffcaac965a0@linux.dev>
On 2026-09-08T17:50:33+08:00, Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev> wrote:
> On 2026/9/8 03:42, Daniel Gomez wrote:
> I skipped it because alloc_tag is the only codetag type and it
> already cleans up after itself.
>
> With a second codetag type the problem Sashiko reported could indeed
> be triggered.
>
> My thinking at the time was to do it in codetag itself, as a separate patch,
> since it feels odd to unload something whose load just failed.
Then, why returning an error at all? I don't see why not doing it inside
codetag itself wouldn't work but it's a "bigger" change. IMO, the error
is supposed to be handled at load_module() then, the unwinding as the
rest.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-09 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-27 3:05 Hao Ge
2026-09-07 19:42 ` Daniel Gomez
2026-09-08 9:50 ` Hao Ge
2026-09-09 22:00 ` Daniel Gomez [this message]
2026-09-10 3:17 ` Hao Ge
2026-09-10 3:28 ` Hao Ge
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