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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>,
	linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: print module name on refcount error
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 15:47:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZKLRaq3pzzE2gfws@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZJ9fvQZ4k+zFfXbN@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Fri 30-06-23 16:05:33, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
[...]
> What prevents code from racing the free with a random module_put()
> called by some other piece of code?

Wouldn't be ref count a garbage already? How can you race when freeing
if module_put fail?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-03 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-26 10:32 Jean Delvare
2023-06-28 10:30 ` Michal Hocko
2023-07-04 12:43   ` Jean Delvare
2023-07-04 13:05     ` Michal Hocko
2023-07-04 14:35       ` Jean Delvare
2023-06-30 23:05 ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-07-01 15:57   ` Jean Delvare
2023-07-03 10:45     ` Jean Delvare
2023-07-03 13:47   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2023-07-07 18:56     ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-07-10  5:43       ` Michal Hocko
2023-07-26 20:59         ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-08-28 12:18           ` Jean Delvare
2023-09-14 19:39             ` Michal Hocko

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