On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Ext4 features interface was not properly unregistered which led to
> problems while unloading/reloading ext4 module. This commit fixes that by
> adding proper kobject unregistration code into ext4_exit_fs() as well as
> fail-path of ext4_init_fs()
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ext4/super.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index cb10a06..124d304 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -4779,7 +4779,7 @@ static struct file_system_type ext4_fs_type = {
> .fs_flags = FS_REQUIRES_DEV,
> };
>
> -int __init ext4_init_feat_adverts(void)
> +static int __init ext4_init_feat_adverts(void)
> {
> struct ext4_features *ef;
> int ret = -ENOMEM;
> @@ -4803,6 +4803,13 @@ out:
> return ret;
> }
>
> +static void ext4_exit_feat_adverts(void)
> +{
> + kobject_put(&ext4_feat->f_kobj);
> + wait_for_completion(&ext4_feat->f_kobj_unregister);
> + kfree(ext4_feat);
> +}
> +
> static int __init ext4_init_fs(void)
> {
> int err;
> @@ -4849,7 +4856,7 @@ out1:
> out2:
> ext4_exit_mballoc();
> out3:
> - kfree(ext4_feat);
> + ext4_exit_feat_adverts();
> remove_proc_entry("fs/ext4", NULL);
> kset_unregister(ext4_kset);
> out4:
> @@ -4868,6 +4875,7 @@ static void __exit ext4_exit_fs(void)
> destroy_inodecache();
> ext4_exit_xattr();
> ext4_exit_mballoc();
> + ext4_exit_feat_adverts();
> remove_proc_entry("fs/ext4", NULL);
> kset_unregister(ext4_kset);
> ext4_exit_system_zone();
>
Hi Ted,
this should probably get in ASAP, so I can send it to the stable.
Thanks!
-Lukas
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