On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 11:08:01AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > kmod <= v19 was broken -- it could return 0 to modprobe calls, > incorrectly assuming that a kernel module was built-in, whereas in > reality the module was just forming in the kernel. The reason for this > is an incorrect userspace heuristics. A userspace kmod fix is available > for it [0], however should userspace break again we could go on with > an failed get_fs_type() which is hard to debug as the request_module() > is detected as returning 0. The first suspect would be that there is > something worth with the kernel's module loader and obviously in this > case that is not the issue. > > Since these issues are painful to debug complain when we know userspace > has outright lied to us. > > [0] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/commit/libkmod/libkmod-module.c?id=fd44a98ae2eb5eb32161088954ab21e58e19dfc4 > > Suggested-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> *poke* Al? Luis
