From 5ac90c9f78953b1a2ac937cc5a2f90c3521a710e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:54:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] module support: record in vermagic ability to unload a module An UML user reported (against 2.6.13.3/UML) he got kernel Oopses when trying to rmmod (on a kernel with module unloading enabled) a module compiled with module unloading disabled. As crashing is a very correct thing to do in that case, a solution is altering the vermagic string to include this too. Possibly, however, the code should not crash in this case, even if the module didn't support unloading - it should simply abort the module removal. In this case, fixing that bug would be a better solution. I've not investigated though. (akpm: a bit marginal - root screwed up and shot himself in the foot). Cc: Hayim Shaul Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/vermagic.h | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/vermagic.h b/include/linux/vermagic.h index fadc535..dc7c621 100644 --- a/include/linux/vermagic.h +++ b/include/linux/vermagic.h @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ #else #define MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT "" #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD +#define MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODULE_UNLOAD "mod_unload " +#else +#define MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODULE_UNLOAD "" +#endif #ifndef MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC #define MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC "" #endif @@ -19,5 +24,5 @@ #define VERMAGIC_STRING \ UTS_RELEASE " " \ MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT \ - MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC \ + MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODULE_UNLOAD MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC \ "gcc-" __stringify(__GNUC__) "." __stringify(__GNUC_MINOR__) -- 2.7.4