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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2015-07-29 05:52:14 +0930
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2015-07-29 06:13:22 +0930
commitfe0d34d242fa1e0dec059e774d146a705420bc9a (patch)
treea6e1fcef9810938b32af5079207143fe72bdbd5e /kernel/module.c
parentd61be4b3f2684b6d76ef8c1d28ecdeb9bb20fa8f (diff)
module: weaken locking assertion for oops path.
We don't actually hold the module_mutex when calling find_module_all from module_kallsyms_lookup_name: that's because it's used by the oops code and we don't want to deadlock. However, access to the list read-only is safe if preempt is disabled, so we can weaken the assertion. Keep a strong version for external callers though. Fixes: 0be964be0d45 ("module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking") Reported-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 4d2b82e610e2..b86b7bf1be38 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -602,13 +602,16 @@ const struct kernel_symbol *find_symbol(const char *name,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(find_symbol);
-/* Search for module by name: must hold module_mutex. */
+/*
+ * Search for module by name: must hold module_mutex (or preempt disabled
+ * for read-only access).
+ */
static struct module *find_module_all(const char *name, size_t len,
bool even_unformed)
{
struct module *mod;
- module_assert_mutex();
+ module_assert_mutex_or_preempt();
list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) {
if (!even_unformed && mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED)
@@ -621,6 +624,7 @@ static struct module *find_module_all(const char *name, size_t len,
struct module *find_module(const char *name)
{
+ module_assert_mutex();
return find_module_all(name, strlen(name), false);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(find_module);