> From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2025 5:15 AM > > Drop irqbypass.ko's superfluous and misleading get/put calls on > THIS_MODULE. A module taking a reference to itself is useless; no amount > of checks will prevent doom and destruction if the caller hasn't already > guaranteed the liveliness of the module (this goes for any module). E.g. > if try_module_get() fails because irqbypass.ko is being unloaded, then the > kernel has already hit a use-after-free by virtue of executing code whose > lifecycle is tied to irqbypass.ko. > > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
