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Message-Id: <1424278933-26952-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:02:13 +0100
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>
To: jpoimboe@...hat.com, sjenning@...hat.com, jkosina@...e.cz,
vojtech@...e.cz
Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com, mbenes@...e.cz,
live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] livepatch: RCU protect struct klp_func all the time when used in klp_ftrace_handler()
func->new_func has been accessed after rcu_read_unlock() in klp_ftrace_handler()
and therefore the access was not protected.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>
---
kernel/livepatch/core.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
index ff7f47d026ac..cde66192e20e 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
@@ -314,12 +314,12 @@ static void notrace klp_ftrace_handler(unsigned long ip,
rcu_read_lock();
func = list_first_or_null_rcu(&ops->func_stack, struct klp_func,
stack_node);
- rcu_read_unlock();
-
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!func))
- return;
+ goto unlock;
klp_arch_set_pc(regs, (unsigned long)func->new_func);
+unlock:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
static int klp_disable_func(struct klp_func *func)
--
1.8.5.6
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