On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 16:21 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com> writes:
> > (2015/01/19 1:55), James Bottomley wrote:
> >> From: James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com>
> >>
> >> After e513cc1 module: Remove stop_machine from module unloading,
> >> module_refcount() is returning (unsigned long)-1 when called from within
> >> a routine that runs in module_exit. This is confusing the scsi device
> >> put code which is coded to detect a module_refcount() of zero for
> >> running within a module exit routine and not try to do another
> >> module_put. The fix is to restore the original behaviour of
> >> module_refcount() and return zero if we're running inside an exit
> >> routine.
> >>
> >> Fixes: e513cc1c07e2ab93a4514eec9833e031df3e30bb
> >> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com>
> >>
> >
> > Yes, this should be fixed as you said, since it must return "unsigned long"
> > value.
>
> But there are only three non-module callers:
>
> drivers/scsi/scsi.c:1012: if (module && module_refcount(module) != 0)
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c:1359:
> LINVRNT(module_refcount(key->lct_owner) > 0);
> include/linux/module.h:447:unsigned long module_refcount(struct module *mod);
> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c:2026: kdb_printf("%4ld ",
> module_refcount(mod));
> kernel/module.c:775:unsigned long module_refcount(struct module *mod)
> kernel/module.c:779:EXPORT_SYMBOL(module_refcount);
> kernel/module.c:859: seq_printf(m, " %lu ", module_refcount(mod));
> kernel/module.c:911: return sprintf(buffer, "%lu\n",
> module_refcount(mk->mod));
>
> The first one I think should be eliminated, and the second one is simply
> an assertion before calling module_put() (which should probably be
> eliminated). The others are just printing information.
If you really want to insist on module_reference() returning -1 when the
module is in it's exit phase, OK, but in that case, I think it should
return a signed value, not an unsigned one.
James
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