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Message-ID: <4CA6F44A.1000907@hitachi.com>
Date:	Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:58:50 +0900
From:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
To:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] jump label: fix module __init section race

(2010/10/02 6:23), Jason Baron wrote:
> Jump label uses is_module_text_address() to ensure that the module
> __init sections are valid before updating them. However, between the
> check for a valid module __init section and the subsequent jump
> label update, the module's __init section could be freed out from under
> us.
> 
> We fix this potential race by adding a notifier callback to the
> MODULE_STATE_LIVE state. This notifier is called *after* the __init
> section has been run but before it is going to be freed. In the
> callback, the jump label code zeros the key value for any __init jump
> code within the module, and we add a check for a non-zero key value when
> we update jump labels. In this way we require no additional data
> structures.
> 
> Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for pointing out this race condition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
> Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> ---
>  kernel/jump_label.c |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/jump_label.c b/kernel/jump_label.c
> index 7be868b..e2fad92 100644
> --- a/kernel/jump_label.c
> +++ b/kernel/jump_label.c
> @@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ void jump_label_update(unsigned long key, enum jump_label_type type)
>  			count = e_module->nr_entries;
>  			iter = e_module->table;
>  			while (count--) {
> -				if (kernel_text_address(iter->code))
> +				if (iter->key &&
> +						kernel_text_address(iter->code))
>  					arch_jump_label_transform(iter, type);
>  				iter++;
>  			}
> @@ -366,6 +367,39 @@ static void remove_jump_label_module(struct module *mod)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static void remove_module_init(struct module *mod)

Hi Jason,

Just a comment, I prefer remove_jump_label_module_init() than this name,
because remove_module_init is too general.

Thank you,


-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
2nd Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Systems Development Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com
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