Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:36:14 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] configfs: module reference counting rules |
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:14:28PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote: > With a preemptible kernel, after module_put(self) the few assembly instructions > cleaning up the stack before returning to the caller can be called after the > memory allocated for the module has been freed. Which will make the kernel > crash.
Ahh, but if you are running a preemptible kernel, you've already made your first mistake :-)
Joel
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