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authorPer Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>2006-01-13 13:06:40 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2006-01-13 13:06:40 -0800
commit23b0ca5bf52cef0ab0f0fe247cb91cbef836e7eb (patch)
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[PATCH] genetlink: don't touch module ref count
Increasing the module ref count at registration will block the module from ever being unloaded. In fact, genetlink should not care about the owner at all. This patch removes the owner field from the struct registered with genetlink. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 3b1378498d50..4ae1538c54a9 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -222,11 +222,6 @@ int genl_register_family(struct genl_family *family)
goto errout_locked;
}
- if (!try_module_get(family->owner)) {
- err = -EBUSY;
- goto errout_locked;
- }
-
if (family->id == GENL_ID_GENERATE) {
u16 newid = genl_generate_id();
@@ -283,7 +278,6 @@ int genl_unregister_family(struct genl_family *family)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&family->ops_list);
genl_unlock();
- module_put(family->owner);
kfree(family->attrbuf);
genl_ctrl_event(CTRL_CMD_DELFAMILY, family);
return 0;
@@ -535,7 +529,6 @@ static struct genl_family genl_ctrl = {
.name = "nlctrl",
.version = 0x1,
.maxattr = CTRL_ATTR_MAX,
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
static int __init genl_init(void)