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Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:12:05 -0700 (PDT) From: julian-lagattuta To: Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu Cc: Sami Tolvanen , Daniel Gomez , linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, julian-lagattuta Subject: [PATCH 6/6] module: comment describing new codepath Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:11:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20250918201109.24620-14-julian.lagattuta@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.45.2 In-Reply-To: <20250918201109.24620-2-julian.lagattuta@gmail.com> References: <20250918201109.24620-2-julian.lagattuta@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" added comment so future authors know about this codepath Signed-off-by: julian-lagattuta --- kernel/module/main.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c index 256e30259bcf..f4ce431163fa 100644 --- a/kernel/module/main.c +++ b/kernel/module/main.c @@ -3220,6 +3220,11 @@ static int module_patient_check_exists(const char *n= ame, */ if (old && old->state =3D=3D MODULE_STATE_LIVE) return -EEXIST; + + /*=20 + * Can occur if the module was forcefully unloaded after + * its initcall crashed. + */ return -EBUSY; } =20 --=20 2.45.2