Comment 4 for bug 2054127

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote :

In the teardown version, when the original functions are put back, do we run the risk of putting back functions from another module that have also been unloaded?

eg:

load A
load B
unload A
unload B

The Unload B operation may be putting back hooks that were installed by A when it was loaded first.

Unloading modules is often very challenging to get correct. Does grub actually *need* this functionality? It might be better to just pave over the functionality and prevent dangling pointers to functions by just never allowing the functions to be unmapped.

Thanks