Commit "af9572c lib/module: check initstate before inserting module"
removed the check for "we should return -EEXIST" and moved it back to
the start of the function. The problem with this is the following
scenario:
- We check if module is in kernel -> no
- We insert the dependencies
<-- External program loads
the module
- We check if module is in kernel -> yes
- We return 0, when we should return -EEXIST
Use a function to properly get an unsigned short from memory that is
possibly unaligned.
Note that it implicitly fixes a small bug in the hash function that
was introduced when modifying the eina code: the line "hash ^= key[2]
<< 18;" is supposed to be accessing the 3rd byte of the remainder of
the input, but when 'it' was introduced, 'key' ('data' in eina code)
was no longer incremented, so this ended up accessing the 3rd byte of
the input from the beginning. This is fixed by iterating over 'key',
like the eina code does.
Before this patch depmod was failing on ARMv5 and possibly others that
don't have unaligned access. They do not calculate correctly the
dependencies as shown below:
[root@alarm ~]# modinfo bridge
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.39.4/kernel/net/bridge/bridge.ko
version: 2.3
license: GPL
srcversion: 6B583530AE2B39C7E2317BF
depends: stp,llc
vermagic: 2.6.39.4 preempt mod_unload ARMv5
[root@alarm ~]# depmod
[root@alarm ~]# cat /lib/modules/2.6.39.4/modules.dep |grep bridge
kernel/net/bridge/bridge.ko:
[root@alarm ~]#
See how modinfo properly lists the dependencies, but modules.dep which
depmod generates does not contain them. As a result, most kernel
modules fail to load because their dependencies are not loaded by
modprobe.
This applies to both the high level probe_insert_module() and the
underlying insert_module() functions. By checking module initstate prior
to inserting a module, we can avoid a lot of needless work just to find
out that the init_module call fails with EEXIST.
This implements a helper function, module_is_inkernel, to return a
boolean value describing if a module is live, coming, or builtin.
Just printing the errno string such as "%m\n" is not enough to help
debug or users understand the problem.
Change to provide more context on the failing operation.
Some messages may happen more than once in the same function and
discovering the line is hard. Now we print the actual log priority
that exposed the message as well as filename and line.
NOTE: We should consider printing the log priority in the non-debug
version as well.
We need a way to tell libkmod to ignore loaded modules, so modprobe can
tell it to dry-run and show dependencies. However there's a conflict
with two flags. KMOD_PROBE_STOP_ON_ALREADY_LOADED prevails if passed
together with KMOD_PROBE_IGNORE_LOADED.
It's not as simple as tell user to check if the module is loaded before
calling this function. Due to race conditions, module might not be
loaded before the function call, but fail later because another process
inserted it.
Share code of module creation among the several new functions. With this
we let the alias/modname/path parsing to the separate functions, and the
rest with the common one.
This fixes the issue of alias names not being able to contain dots.
Alias names may contain dots. However since kmod_module_from_alias()
still calls kmod_module_new_from_name(), the bug is not entirely fixed,
and will be completely corrected in a later patch.
Split kmod_module_probe_insert_module() in 2:
1) Get list of modules to be loaded
2) Iterate the list, loading the module
With this in future we will be able to cover use cases of modprobe,
that has a logic a bit more complicated.
With this we also change the logic to detect dependency loops: instead
of checking the recursion every STEP times, we now keep a field in
kmod_module, marking it as visited. We simply ignore already visited
modules and thus we break loops.
This field can be used to iterate the modules, controlling whether we
are revisiting a certain module. A function to clear the values in all
modules is needed since when we are iterating, we don't know if the
module is created anew or if it's picked from the pool. Therefore we
can't know if the field is true because of a previous iteration or if
the module was indeed already visited.
Not all libc's have a mtim member in struct stat (dietlibc doesn't).
Change ts_usec() to receive a struct stat as parameter and implement it
accordingly for both cases.
Index dump doesn't use stdio.h function and instead call write()
directly on STDOUT_FILENO file descriptor. Therefore we need to flush
stdio buffers before calling it, to be sure the configuration dump will
appear before index's.
Provide a function to dump the index files to a certain fd. It could be
more optimized (particularly the functions to dump the index that were
copied and pasted from m-i-t), but it seems like the only user of it is
'modprobe -c', used for debugging purposes. So, keep it as is.
Config iterators are useful to get each configuration list, remember its
type and how to get their key/value pair.
softdeps don't have the value yet, because they are stored as string
vectors.
Current limitation is horrible no support to sections: we have to to
have separate header files or to maintain the libkmod-sections.txt file.
We are doing the latter.
