module_put(9)

💅 module_put(9) — the Kernel API Manual page you actually needed

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 🎀 this one's short and sweet, but it's lowkey important so pls don't skip it.

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✨ NAME ✨

module_put — release a reference count to a module 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void module_put (struct module *module );

that's it. one function, one argument, zero drama. the way that it just... does one thing 😌

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• module — the module we should release a reference count for 🫶 (yes, exactly that module. the one you were holding onto. let her go.)

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so here's the tea, and it's literally just one sentence but it's fr fr the whole point of this page:

if you successfully bump a reference count to a module with try_module_get, then when you are finished you must call module_put to release that reference count. periodt. 🔥

no cap — those two are a matched set. you took a ref, you give it back. that's the vibe check. ✨ don't leave it hanging or the refcount stays inflated and that's giving 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./include/linux/module.h 🌈 — go read it, it's iconic iykyk

• module_init(9)
• module_exit(9)
• struct klp_modinfo(9)
• try_module_get(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie, short king energy 👑 tysm for reading — this one came to you from ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and ofc the page itself is module_put(9). mwah 💋💖