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Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries

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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:57 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> The current patch is *broken* because it doesn't handle it. Really.
Think of it this way - you may have now started *five* of those things concurrently by mistake.
concurrently by mistake.
The actual module loading case never does that, because the actual module loading case has per-module serialization that got short-circuited.
short-circuited.
How are you going to handle five processes doing the same setup concurrently? How are you going to handle five processes doing the same setup concurrently?

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