From 5336377d6225959624146629ce3fc88ee8ecda3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:29:27 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/module.h | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index 8a6b9fdc7ff..aace066bad8 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -686,17 +686,16 @@ extern int module_sysfs_initialized; #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG -int module_bug_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *, const Elf_Shdr *, +void module_bug_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *, const Elf_Shdr *, struct module *); void module_bug_cleanup(struct module *); #else /* !CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG */ -static inline int module_bug_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr, +static inline void module_bug_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr, const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, struct module *mod) { - return 0; } static inline void module_bug_cleanup(struct module *mod) {} #endif /* CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG */ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2