linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] Race between cat /proc/kallsyms and rmmod

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Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:35:11 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org,
	pmarques@...popie.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Race between cat /proc/kallsyms and rmmod

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 17:33 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Iterating code of /proc/kallsyms calls module_get_kallsym() which grabs
> and drops module_mutex internally and returns "struct module *",
> module is removed, aforementioned "struct module *" is used in non-trivial
> way.

Hi Alexey,

	I like the patch, but I wonder if passing the lengths for the symbol
and module name is overkill?  There are KSYM_NAME_LEN and
MODULE_NAME_LEN constants, after all, and we could just have the callers
use buffers of sufficient size.  Simplifies the code and reduces
confusion if someone passes a small buffer and it gets surprisingly
truncated...

Thanks!
Rusty.


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