linux-kernel - Re: Revert "module: error out early on concurrent load of the same module file"

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Message-ID: <CA+icZUUxiS0hqaVQP-f2gJPOO5QJx=6nfA8QFUMVuHM=KThDSQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 May 2023 05:37:40 +0200
From:   Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Revert "module: error out early on concurrent load of the same
 module file"

On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 7:33 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 12:18 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Building from scratch with latest Linus Git including:
> >
> > Revert "module: error out early on concurrent load of the same module file"
> > https://git.kernel.org/linus/ac2263b588dffd3a1efd7ed0b156ea6c5aea200d
>
> So just to confirm: both plain 6.4 _and_ with that revert hangs?
>
> The revert is pure "go back to old state", so the revert really
> shouldn't cause any problems what-so-ever.
>
> So if rc4 doesn't boot for you, and the revert also didn't fix it for
> you, then there is something else going on.
>
> There have been other module changes during the merge window, and
> obviously it might be entirely unrelated to modules too. Can you try
> to narrow down when it started failing?
>

I was able to boot into my system again with the reverted commit.
Note: Ext4-FS was built as module.

-Sedat-