On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 17:22 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> But I'm wondering, wouldn't module refcounting alone fix this problem?
> If we make nf_sockopt() call try_module_get(ops->owner), remove_module()
> on ip_tables.ko would simply fail because the refcount is above zero
> (so it would fail at point 3 above). Am I missing something important?

Yes, that seems the correct solution to me, too.  ISTR that this code
predates the current module code.

Rusty.

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