> > I don't know what problem the mutex is supposed to solve,
> > but this change makes kmod non-reentrant and unreliable.
>
> The patch does fix a real problem, though. Some kind of re-entrancy block
> is needed to make sure that there aren't two copies of "insmod" trying to
> insert the same module at the same time. It is possible that this
> re-entrancy block needs to be done by insmod itself, rather than the
> kernel.
I agree. This should be done in insmod itself, not the kernel.
Cheers,
Alex
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