Re: [PATCH] kernel/module: improve documentation for try_module_get()

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Thu Dec 21 2023 - 13:28:37 EST


On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 05:58:47PM +0100, Marco Pagani wrote:
> The sentence "this call will fail if the module is already being
> removed" is potentially confusing and may contradict the rest of the
> documentation. If one tries to get a module that has already been
> removed using a stale pointer, the kernel will crash.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Pagani <marpagan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, patch applied!

Luis