Patches for fixing module load/unload panics
Nicolai Petri
nicolai at catpipe.net
Sun May 4 02:05:09 PDT 2003
Hi all
As the codefreeze is due very soon now (tm) I send in theese patches and hopes
theese get commited before.
patch 1 (kern_linker.patch) :
This fixes panics related to loading a module that's already compiled
into the kernel. (patch 2 avoids some of the problems too)
It works by traversing the loaded module list, and if it's already loaded
it simply aborts the moduleregistering process and returns EEXISTS.
patch 2 (kern_sysctl.patch) :
This patch is somewhat related to the same issue as patch 1. When
loading a module that contains a sysctl already present in the kernel,
the sysctl_register fails. When unloading the module again it calls
sysctl_unregister() and that leads to instant panic because of missing
validity checks in sysctl_unregister.
The above 2 patches fixes 70-80 % of the kld unload related crashes I've seen
so far, but I know there is many ghosts hidden in the current kld-framework
and I'm trying to tidy this up a bit. Being realistic this means that a lot of
patches like the above will go to the 5.x tree and hopefully a reworked
kld-framework for 6.x.
In my quest for fixing/redesigning the kld framework I'm currently working
on a document describing my thoughts on this matter.
The document and newest versions of my patches can be found on this
website : http://hobbes.bsd-dk.dk/~npp/
Cheers,
Nicolai Petri
catpipe Systems ApS
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