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Summary of modules changes for the 5.11 merge window:
- Fix a race condition between systemd/udev and the module loader.
The module loader was sending a uevent before the module was fully
initialized (i.e., before its init function has been called). This means
udev can start processing the module uevent before the module has
finished initializing, and some udev rules expect that the module has
initialized already upon receiving the uevent. This resulted in some
systemd mount units failing if udev processes the event faster than the
module can finish init. This is fixed by delaying the uevent until after
the module has called its init routine.
- Make the linker array sections for kernel params and module version
attributes more robust by switching to use the alignment of the type in
question. Namely, linker section arrays will be constructed using the
alignment required by the struct (using __alignof__()) as opposed to a
specific value such as sizeof(void *) or sizeof(long). This is less
likely to cause breakages should the size of the type ever change (from
Johan Hovold)
- Fix module state inconsistency by setting it back to GOING when a module
fails to load and is on its way out (from Miroslav Benes)
- Some comment and code cleanups (from Sergey Shtylyov)
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'modules-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux
Pull modules updates from Jessica Yu:
"Summary of modules changes for the 5.11 merge window:
- Fix a race condition between systemd/udev and the module loader.
The module loader was sending a uevent before the module was fully
initialized (i.e., before its init function has been called). This
means udev can start processing the module uevent before the module
has finished initializing, and some udev rules expect that the
module has initialized already upon receiving the uevent.
This resulted in some systemd mount units failing if udev processes
the event faster than the module can finish init. This is fixed by
delaying the uevent until after the module has called its init
routine.
- Make the linker array sections for kernel params and module version
attributes more robust by switching to use the alignment of the
type in question.
Namely, linker section arrays will be constructed using the
alignment required by the struct (using __alignof__()) as opposed
to a specific value such as sizeof(void *) or sizeof(long). This is
less likely to cause breakages should the size of the type ever
change (Johan Hovold)
- Fix module state inconsistency by setting it back to GOING when a
module fails to load and is on its way out (Miroslav Benes)
- Some comment and code cleanups (Sergey Shtylyov)"
* tag 'modules-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call
module: drop semicolon from version macro
init: use type alignment for kernel parameters
params: clean up module-param macros
params: use type alignment for kernel parameters
params: drop redundant "unused" attributes
module: simplify version-attribute handling
module: drop version-attribute alignment
module: fix comment style
module: add more 'kernel-doc' comments
module: fix up 'kernel-doc' comments
module: only handle errors with the *switch* statement in module_sig_check()
module: avoid *goto*s in module_sig_check()
module: merge repetitive strings in module_sig_check()
module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load
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