Re: [RFC] Suspicious bug in module refcounting

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 10-02-09 13:45:07, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 February 2009 01:48:31 Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Based on this change, would it make sense to update sys_accept to change
> > __module_get to try_module_get like in the following patch?
> 
> I don't think so:
> 
> >  	/*
> > -	 * We don't need try_module_get here, as the listening socket (sock)
> > -	 * has the protocol module (sock->ops->owner) held.
> > +	 * Socket's owner cannot be in unloading path because there
> > +	 * must be at least one listening reference
> >  	 */
> > -	__module_get(newsock->ops->owner);
> > +	if (unlikely(!try_module_get(newsock->ops->owner)))
> > +		BUG();
> 
> rmmod --wait can make try_module_get fail even if the reference count isn't
> zero.  

OK, I though that rmmod --wait waits for refcount==0 and then changes
the state.

> But in this case, we should return an error from the accept call;
> presumably the admin really doesn't want us to keep using the module...
> 
> Thanks,
> Rusty.

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