netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix ESP SA loading (by default)

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Date:	Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:30:50 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	adobriyan@...il.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ESP SA loading (by default)

David Miller wrote:
> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:03:18 +0100
> 
>> David Miller wrote:
>>> About the rmmod thing, we can do something similar to how
>>> we handle nesting of irq_regs().  Ie. there are things that
>>> push and pop the stack of ->error_desc.  rmmod operations
>>> could be one of those things
>> Alternatively we could simply strdup the error message (or copy it
>> to a reserved area to avoid running into memory allocation errors).
>> That avoids having to mess with foreign task structs when
>> unloading modules.
> 
> Since the error message is "const char *" I don't see why
> you'd need to strdup() it ever, just the pointer is fine.
> 
> Well, I guess we could run into problems with module unloading
> and the strings being from that module hmmm...

Yes, thats what I thought Alexey was referring to.
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