Commit 98701d1b authored May 08, 2007 by kalash nainwal Committed by Linus Torvalds May 08, 2007

(re)register_binfmt returns with -EBUSY



When a binary format is unregistered and re-registered, register_binfmt
fails with -EBUSY.  The reason is that unregister_binfmt does not set
fmt->next to NULL, and seeing (fmt->next != NULL), register_binfmt fails
with -EBUSY.

One can find his way around by explicitly setting fmt->next to NULL after
unregistering, but that is kind of unclean (one should better be using only
the interfaces, and not the interal members, isn't it?)

Attached one-liner can fix it.

Signed-off-by: Kalash Nainwal <kalash.nainwal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 0f95b7fc

fs/exec.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ int unregister_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt * fmt)
		while (*tmp) {
		if (fmt == *tmp) {
		*tmp = fmt->next;
		fmt->next = NULL;
		write_unlock(&binfmt_lock);
		return 0;
		}

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