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SubjectRe: Problems with modules in 2.3.51


On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Roman V. Shaposhnick wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to mention that in 2.3.51 there is a huge problem with
> modules related to recent changes in fs-register-unregister interface.

> As you can see there are extra 2 "links" to the module left.

Lovely...

> I dig the problem and have found that it seems to be a bug in
> 'try_inc_mod_count'. Or in how it is used. Nevertheless, I suggest
> something like splitting this function in two -- one that checks and
> one that sets usecount value.

No. It should be atomic.

> I suspect who is the author of these changes ( Al, is it you ? :) ). But

Yep. I'll look at it.


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