linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] Fix some kallsyms

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Message-Id: <1174346587.11680.28.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:23:07 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, pmarques@...popie.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] Fix some kallsyms_lookup() vs rmmod races

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:21 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> I very much agree with proto-patch which _copies_ all relevant
> information into caller-supplied structure, keeping module_mutex private.
> Time to split it sanely.

Indeed.  The current interface needs to be ripped apart and put together
sanely.

Thanks!
Rusty.

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