Am 15.03.2015 um 09:17 schrieb Al Viro:
Another question, if you don't mind - does that series (i.e. what's currently in Linus' tree) fix the module refcount issues you'd been seeing? I agree with your analysis of likely cause (->f_op reassignments with different ->owner before and after) and these patches should have eliminated that, but confirmation would be nice... Incidentally, none of those file_operations need ->owner in the first place; it doesn't hurt (as long as ->f_op doesn't change that way), but such files (living on a filesystem provided by the module their methods are in) don't need the module refcount bumped while the file is opened - having it opened pins file_system_type of containing filesystem (by keeping a reference to struct vfsmount, which keeps a reference to struct super_block, which keeps a reference to file_system_type), so the module will be kept busy just fine. Again, having ->owner on file_operations doesn't hurt, so it's not a bug per se - just pointless in such cases. So we might want to remove it from ep_io_operations someday. Anyway, that's a completely separate story...
Hmm, a year ago or so I've stumbled over the fact that the owner might be necessary for correct entries in sysfs (that was mtd). I've no idea if that's true here too but it might be worse to mention it.
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