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SubjectRe: Locking Between User Context and Soft IRQs in 2.4.0
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 12:07:34PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > All the MOD_INC/DEC_USE_COUNT are done inside the modules themselves. There
> > is nothing that would a driver prevent from being unloaded on a different
> > CPU while it is already executing in ->open but has not yet executed the add
> > yet or after it has executed the _DEC but it is still running in module code
> > Normally the windows are pretty small, but very long running interrupt
> > on one CPU hitting exactly in the wrong moment can change that.
>
> Module unload calls unregister_netdev, which grabs rtnl_lock.
> dev->open runs under rtnl_lock.
>
> Given this, how can the driver be unloaded if dev->open is running?

It does not help, because when the semaphore synchronizes it is already
too late -- free_module already did the zero module count check and
nothing is going to stop it from unloading.

-Andi

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