On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 20:59 +0900, Adil Mujeeb wrote: > Hi, > I have developed a module which creates sysctl entry i.e. > in /proc/sys/my_module/x . > I have done this register_sysctl_table function during module > initialiazation and clear the entry in module cleanup with > unregister_sysctl_table function. Now my problem is if any user > process has open the /proc/sys/my_module/x entry as a file and trying > to read its value and in the meantime root has removed the module. So > it causes the kernel panic. > you forgot to set the owner field, because if you did then the VFS will keep a reference to your module, disallowing the rmmod... -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
