linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] livepatch: add module locking around kallsyms calls

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Date:	Tue, 2 Jun 2015 10:09:15 -0500
From:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:	Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
Cc:	sjenning@...hat.com, jkosina@...e.cz, vojtech@...e.cz,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pmladek@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] livepatch: add module locking around kallsyms calls

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 05:48:37PM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> The list of loaded modules is walked through in
> module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol (called by kallsyms_on_each_symbol). The
> module_mutex lock should be acquired to prevent potential corruptions
> in the list.
> 
> This was uncovered with new lockdep asserts in module code introduced by
> the commit 0be964be0d45 ("module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking") in
> recent next- trees.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>

Thanks!

Should we add a comment to kallsyms_on_each_symbol() so that others
don't make this mistake?

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>

-- 
Josh
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