Currently modprobe -r will fail if a module is built in and report that it
is built in. rmmod calls the same function to determine state but doesn't
handle the KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN return code. This leads to confusing errors
like this:
libkmod: kmod_module_get_holders: could not open '/sys/module/loop/holders': No such file or directory
Error: Module loop is in use
Fix this so that it actually reports the correct problem to the user.
static int check_module_inuse(struct kmod_module *mod) {
struct kmod_list *holders;
+ int state;
- if (kmod_module_get_initstate(mod) == -ENOENT) {
+ state = kmod_module_get_initstate(mod);
+
+ if (state == KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN) {
+ ERR("Module %s is builtin.\n", kmod_module_get_name(mod));
+ return -ENOENT;
+ } else if (state < 0) {
ERR("Module %s is not currently loaded\n",
kmod_module_get_name(mod));
return -ENOENT;