Re: owner field in `struct fs'

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 04:44:28 EST

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viro@math.psu.edu said:
> Module removal can not start until the counter is zero, what are you
> talking about?

In any case where code blindly uses MOD_INC_USE_COUNT rather than
try_inc_mod_count(), the counter can be non-zero by the time
cleanup_module() is entered.

-- dwmw2

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