Unable to remove kernel module showing permanent using lsmod

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:08, sakthi selvam <sakthi.cdm at gmail.com> wrote:
> But in my case, cleanup module also available in memory, after loading
> the module. I used to check using the file in /proc/kallsyms for the
> availability of cleanup module in memory.

AFAIK, such thing could happen due to certain data structure(s) from
that module that are continously accessed or locked. So, to avoid race
condition ( and missing pointer), keeping the module in memory is the
right way to do.

But of course, AFAIK too, you can try rmmod -f. But the risk is all yours.

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Mulyadi Santosa
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