linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: implement module_inhibit

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Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:36:13 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	cornelia.huck@...ibm.com, greg@...ah.com,
	stern@...land.harvard.edu, kay.sievers@...y.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: implement module_inhibit_unload()

Rusty Russell wrote:
> As stated you cannot protect arbitrary code this way, as you are trying
> to do.  I do not think you've broken any of the current code, but I
> cannot tell.  You're certainly going to surprise unsuspecting future
> authors.

Can you elaborate a bit?  Why can't it protect the code?

> Can you really not figure out the module owner of the sysfs entry to inc
> its use count during this procedure?  (__module_get()).

I can but I don't think it's worth the effort.  It will involve passing
@owner parameter down through kobject to sysfs but the path is pretty
obscure and thus difficult to test.  I think it's too much work for the
users of the API and it will be easy to pass the wrong @owner and go
unnoticed.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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