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| author | Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> | 2006-05-15 09:44:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-05-15 11:20:55 -0700 |
| commit | 5e376613899076396d0c97de67ad072587267370 (patch) | |
| tree | ecc15c25ee4da7754aa7d137dccebab68820399e /kernel/extable.c | |
| parent | 0159677857c5ada0a0a2c03a4dd59312382b73d0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-5e376613899076396d0c97de67ad072587267370.tar.gz lwn-5e376613899076396d0c97de67ad072587267370.zip | |
[PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel
Even since a previous patch:
Fix race between CONFIG_DEBUG_SLABALLOC and modules
Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:55:19 +0000 (17:55 +0000)
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=92b3db26d31cf21b70e3c1eadc56c179506d8fbe
The function symbol_put_addr() will deadlock the kernel.
symbol_put_addr() would acquire modlist_lock, then while holding the lock call
two functions kernel_text_address() and module_text_address() which also try
to acquire the same lock. This deadlocks the kernel of course.
This patch changes symbol_put_addr() to not acquire the modlist_lock, it
doesn't need it since it never looks at the module list directly. Also, it
now uses core_kernel_text() instead of kernel_text_address(). The latter has
an additional check for addr inside a module, but we don't need to do that
since we call module_text_address() (the same function kernel_text_address
uses) ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/extable.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/extable.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c index 7501b531ceed..7fe262855317 100644 --- a/kernel/extable.c +++ b/kernel/extable.c @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ const struct exception_table_entry *search_exception_tables(unsigned long addr) return e; } -static int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr) +int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr) { if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext && addr <= (unsigned long)_etext) |