On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:24:48PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> This is a pity, because I think the current behaviour is not acceptable,
> as it can kill the machine by just being invoked by kmod.
> I will try to make sense out of the code and make sure that modprobe
> will not go crazy, by either detecting loops (if I can do that in a way
> wihtout breaking things) or by limiting the recursion depth. I'll send
> you a patch.
Find it attached. As the dependency generation looked indeed rather
cumbersome to me, I didn't really touch it. I just did implement the
recursion limit to prevent the modprobe process grabbing all the memory of
the system ...
root@cantaloupe:~ > modprobe -k pppoe
modprobe: Too deep recursion in module dependencies!
modprobe: Circular dependency? pppox pppoe
Aborted
Regards,
-- Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security
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