On 7/18/19 3:20 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 4:33 AM Jessica Yu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Modules updates for v5.3 >> >> - Fix bug where -EEXIST was being returned for going modules > > Hmm. > > I have pulled this, but this change makes me a bit nervous. > > I have this dim memory of us having deadlocks in module loading > because module loading triggered other modules to be loaded, and we > had circular dependencies.. > Interesting. I'll try to search around to see if I can find the thread. P. > This is from years and years ago (that whole state check is not > recent), so my memory may simply be wrong, but I thought I'd mention > it... > > Linus >
