On Sunday, 15 November 2020 11:30:04 CET Taehee Yoo wrote:
If THIS_MODULE is not set, the module would be removed while debugfs is being used. It eventually makes kernel panic.
Fixes: 9e466250ede3 ("batman-adv: Prefix bat_debugfs local static functions with batadv_")
This Fixes: is bogus. The code was already present with the first commit c6c8fea29769 ("net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol"). I have now changed it before it was applied to the net branch.
net/batman-adv/log.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/log.c b/net/batman-adv/log.c index a67b2b091447..c0ca5fbe5b08 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/log.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/log.c @@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ static const struct file_operations batadv_log_fops = { .read = batadv_log_read, .poll = batadv_log_poll, .llseek = no_llseek,
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
/**
General info: This causes a merge problem with the net-next branch [1] because the debugfs files were dropped in preparation of the Linux 5.11 release in 2021. I might rebase the currently pending patches for net-next to avoid this weird merge conflict.
Kind regards, Sven
[1] https://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge.git/shortlog/refs/heads/batadv/net-nex...