From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:17:43 -0200 > Em Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:15:17PM -0500, Neil Horman escreveu: >> Hey- >> This was just recently reported to me. When built as modules, >> the dccp_probe module has a silent dependency on the dccp module. This stems >> from the fact that the module_init routine of dccp_probe registers a jprobe on >> the dccp_sendmsg symbol. Since the symbol is only referenced as a text string >> (the .symbol_name field in the jprobe struct) rather than the address of the >> symbol itself, depmod never picks this dependency up, and so if you load the >> dccp_probe module without the dccp module loaded, the register_jprobe call fails >> with an -EINVAL, and the whole module load fails. >> >> The fix is pretty easy, we can just wrap the register_jprobe call in a >> try_then_request_module call, which forces the dependency to get satisfied prior >> to the probe registration. >> >> I've verified that this fixes the problem myself. >> >> Regards >> Neil >> >> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > That is ok with me, thanks! > > Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied. Neil, always CC: netdev on networking patches, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dccp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
