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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-05 20:29:27 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-05 20:29:27 +0200
commit5336377d6225959624146629ce3fc88ee8ecda3d (patch)
tree571b9db75d1ba50faa1e399509563f367fd5694f /arch/x86/kernel/module.c
parentMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg... (diff)
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modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race
With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it possible to do most of the module loading in parallel. However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling. That code was doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific "module_finalize()" rather than from generic code. Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the module loading lock any more. So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations are now safe. Future fixups: - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it belongs. - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain for other reasons. Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/module.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
index e0bc186d7501..1c355c550960 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
@@ -239,11 +239,10 @@ int module_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
apply_paravirt(pseg, pseg + para->sh_size);
}
- return module_bug_finalize(hdr, sechdrs, me);
+ return 0;
}
void module_arch_cleanup(struct module *mod)
{
alternatives_smp_module_del(mod);
- module_bug_cleanup(mod);
}