Re: [PATCH] modprobe: ignore builtin module on recursive removing

[Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 08:12:53PM +0200, Yauheni Kaliuta wrote:
>If there are built-in dependencies and any of them is built-in in
>the kernel, modprobe -r fails with
>
>modprobe: FATAL: Module module_name is builtin.
>
>It makes sense to ignore such dependencies for the case when
>removing is called for non-top level module.
>
>Example: cifs module, it declares bunch of softdeps and the first
>one fails on some kernel configs:
>
>modprobe: FATAL: Module gcm is builtin.
>
>Signed-off-by: Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com>

makes sense.

thanks, applied.

Lucas De Marchi

>---
> tools/modprobe.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/tools/modprobe.c b/tools/modprobe.c
>index a9e2331567af..44cd15c2bf57 100644
>--- a/tools/modprobe.c
>+++ b/tools/modprobe.c
>@@ -353,7 +353,8 @@ static int rmmod_do_remove_module(struct kmod_module *mod)
> 	return err;
> }
>
>-static int rmmod_do_module(struct kmod_module *mod, bool do_dependencies);
>+static int rmmod_do_module(struct kmod_module *mod, bool do_dependencies,
>+			   bool ignore_builtin);
>
> static int rmmod_do_deps_list(struct kmod_list *list, bool stop_on_errors)
> {
>@@ -361,7 +362,7 @@ static int rmmod_do_deps_list(struct kmod_list *list, bool stop_on_errors)
>
> 	kmod_list_foreach_reverse(l, list) {
> 		struct kmod_module *m = kmod_module_get_module(l);
>-		int r = rmmod_do_module(m, false);
>+		int r = rmmod_do_module(m, false, true);
> 		kmod_module_unref(m);
>
> 		if (r < 0 && stop_on_errors)
>@@ -371,7 +372,8 @@ static int rmmod_do_deps_list(struct kmod_list *list, bool stop_on_errors)
> 	return 0;
> }
>
>-static int rmmod_do_module(struct kmod_module *mod, bool do_dependencies)
>+static int rmmod_do_module(struct kmod_module *mod, bool do_dependencies,
>+			   bool ignore_builtin)
> {
> 	const char *modname = kmod_module_get_name(mod);
> 	struct kmod_list *pre = NULL, *post = NULL;
>@@ -401,8 +403,12 @@ static int rmmod_do_module(struct kmod_module *mod, bool do_dependencies)
> 			}
> 			goto error;
> 		} else if (state == KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN) {
>-			LOG("Module %s is builtin.\n", modname);
>-			err = -ENOENT;
>+			if (ignore_builtin) {
>+				err = 0;
>+			} else {
>+				LOG("Module %s is builtin.\n", modname);
>+				err = -ENOENT;
>+			}
> 			goto error;
> 		}
> 	}
>@@ -462,7 +468,7 @@ static int rmmod(struct kmod_ctx *ctx, const char *alias)
>
> 	kmod_list_foreach(l, list) {
> 		struct kmod_module *mod = kmod_module_get_module(l);
>-		err = rmmod_do_module(mod, true);
>+		err = rmmod_do_module(mod, true, false);
> 		kmod_module_unref(mod);
> 		if (err < 0)
> 			break;
>-- 
>2.23.0
>