Re: owner field in `struct fs'

[Philipp Rumpf]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:15:44AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> [e-mail] said:
> >  Yes.  schedule() out of a zero-refcount module is a bug.  In fact,
> > it's quite easy to make it a BUG() as well:
> 
> That's nice but not sufficient - just _being_ in a zero-refcount module is a
> bug, if you don't have the BKL or the unload_lock.

Most of this thread is/was about how you can make it perfectly legal (if
you synchronize things across all CPUs for module unload).  Right now I
agree it's always a bug but I don't think anyone disagrees the current
(pre-inc/dec use count in upper layer) mechanisms are broken.

	Philipp