From 98701d1b0fe98b477b53df89114e6862547f8107 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kalash nainwal Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 00:28:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] (re)register_binfmt returns with -EBUSY When a binary format is unregistered and re-registered, register_binfmt fails with -EBUSY. The reason is that unregister_binfmt does not set fmt->next to NULL, and seeing (fmt->next != NULL), register_binfmt fails with -EBUSY. One can find his way around by explicitly setting fmt->next to NULL after unregistering, but that is kind of unclean (one should better be using only the interfaces, and not the interal members, isn't it?) Attached one-liner can fix it. Signed-off-by: Kalash Nainwal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/exec.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index f1691cd..1ba85c7 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ int unregister_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt * fmt) while (*tmp) { if (fmt == *tmp) { *tmp = fmt->next; + fmt->next = NULL; write_unlock(&binfmt_lock); return 0; } -- 2.7.4