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Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2017 10:34:34 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Gao Feng <gfree.wind@....163.com>
Cc:     xeb@...l.ru, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH net] ppp: Fix a scheduling-while-atomic bug in del_chan

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> Unless I miss any other code path, pptp_exit_module() is
> problematic too, I don't think it can just vfree() the whole thing.
>

This path should be fine, because:

1. sock holds a refcnt to module via proto->owner
2. gre_del_protocol() already waits for readers