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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-01-28 00:38:40 +0100
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-01-29 07:13:27 +0100
commit6494a93d55fad586238cc1940e846c6d03e1aaf6 (patch)
tree8f930c1064753ab478b879b5598952f1ae87e52e /kernel
parentmodule: add module taint on ndiswrapper (diff)
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Module: check to see if we have a built in module with the same name
When trying to load a module with the same name as a built-in one, a scary kobject backtrace comes up. Prevent that from checking for this condition and warning the user as to what exactly is going on. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index af3f81a94745..f6a4e721fd49 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1230,6 +1230,7 @@ void module_remove_modinfo_attrs(struct module *mod)
int mod_sysfs_init(struct module *mod)
{
int err;
+ struct kobject *kobj;
if (!module_sysfs_initialized) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: module sysfs not initialized\n",
@@ -1237,6 +1238,15 @@ int mod_sysfs_init(struct module *mod)
err = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
+
+ kobj = kset_find_obj(module_kset, mod->name);
+ if (kobj) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: module is already loaded\n", mod->name);
+ kobject_put(kobj);
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
mod->mkobj.mod = mod;
memset(&mod->mkobj.kobj, 0, sizeof(mod->mkobj.kobj));