On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:24:45 +1100 NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de> wrote: > If poll or select is waiting on /proc/mdstat when md-mod is unloaded > an oops will ensure when the poll/select completes. > > This is because the wait_queue_head which is registered with poll_wait() > is local to the module and no longer exists when the poll completes and > detaches that wait_queue_head (in poll_free_wait -> remove_wait_queue). > > To fix this we need the wait_queue_head to have (at least) the same life > time as the proc_dir_entry. So this patch places it in that structure. > > We: > - add pde_poll_wait to struct proc_dir_entry > - call poll_wait() passing this when poll() is called on the proc file > - export a function proc_wake_up which will call wake_up() on pde_poll_wait > > and make use of all that in md.c
This sounds wrong. If a userspace process is waiting on md_event_waiters then the md module is "busy" and the rmmod attempt should fail? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
