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| author | Marco Pagani <marpagan@redhat.com> | 2023-12-21 17:58:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> | 2023-12-21 10:26:14 -0800 |
| commit | 4515d08a742c76612b65d2f47a87d12860519842 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ded247605b964cb1616ec6c96895dd762cade9d /include/linux/module.h | |
| parent | f17f2c13d613cbeef529b03ca17ae2581b2e6cb8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4515d08a742c76612b65d2f47a87d12860519842.tar.gz | |
kernel/module: improve documentation for try_module_get()
The sentence "this call will fail if the module is already being
removed" is potentially confusing and may contradict the rest of the
documentation. If one tries to get a module that has already been
removed using a stale pointer, the kernel will crash.
Signed-off-by: Marco Pagani <marpagan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/module.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/module.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index a98e188cf37b81..08364d5cbc0797 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ extern void __module_get(struct module *module); * @module: the module we should check for * * Only try to get a module reference count if the module is not being removed. - * This call will fail if the module is already being removed. + * This call will fail if the module is in the process of being removed. * * Care must also be taken to ensure the module exists and is alive prior to * usage of this call. This can be gauranteed through two means: |