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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-01-29 23:13:22 +0100
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-01-29 07:13:23 +0100
commit6dd06c9fbe025f542bce4cdb91790c0f91962722 (patch)
tree5c946eb93f30c64fd435bdd6d1064880ef21557a /kernel/kallsyms.c
parentmodule: better OOPS and lockdep coverage for loading modules (diff)
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module: make module_address_lookup safe
module_address_lookup releases preemption then returns a pointer into the module space. The only user (kallsyms) copies the result, so just do that under the preempt disable. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kallsyms.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kallsyms.c11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 2fc25810509e..7dadc71ce516 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -233,10 +233,11 @@ static unsigned long get_symbol_pos(unsigned long addr,
int kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(unsigned long addr, unsigned long *symbolsize,
unsigned long *offset)
{
+ char namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
if (is_ksym_addr(addr))
return !!get_symbol_pos(addr, symbolsize, offset);
- return !!module_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset, NULL);
+ return !!module_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset, NULL, namebuf);
}
/*
@@ -251,8 +252,6 @@ const char *kallsyms_lookup(unsigned long addr,
unsigned long *offset,
char **modname, char *namebuf)
{
- const char *msym;
-
namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN - 1] = 0;
namebuf[0] = 0;
@@ -268,10 +267,8 @@ const char *kallsyms_lookup(unsigned long addr,
}
/* see if it's in a module */
- msym = module_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset, modname);
- if (msym)
- return strncpy(namebuf, msym, KSYM_NAME_LEN - 1);
-
+ return module_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset, modname,
+ namebuf);
return NULL;
}