netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10737] New: pktgen procfs problem

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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2008 12:34:55 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	"Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, devzero@....de,
	Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@....uu.se>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10737] New: pktgen procfs problem

Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 17:31 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>   
>> git-bisect identified e9720acd ([NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink
>> on /proc/self/net (v3)) as the guilty commit. I couldn't find
>> the problem in that commit, so someone with a better understanding
>> of how this is supposed to work should look into it.
>>     
>
> could you consider this preliminary patch? It fixes the problem for me
> and Pavel agrees with it.
>
> The problem is that module_get is called for each file opening while
> module_put is called only when /proc inode is destroyed. So, lets put
> module counter if we are dealing with already initialised inode.
>   


The patch works fine for me, thanks.
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