linux-kernel - [PULL] Module preeption fix

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Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:55:26 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	poma <pomidorabelisima@...il.com>
Subject: [PULL] Module preeption fix

The following changes since commit 1b647a166f07dcf08709c8606470f4b17a4aa11d:

  Merge tag 'dmaengine-fix-4.2-rc8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma (2015-08-18 12:17:36 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux.git tags/fixes-for-linus

for you to fetch changes up to 275d7d44d802ef271a42dc87ac091a495ba72fc5:

  module: Fix locking in symbol_put_addr() (2015-08-24 10:37:01 +0930)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Turns out we should have always been disabling preemption here;
someone finally caught it thanks to Peter Z's additional checks.

Cheers,
Rusty.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Zijlstra (1):
      module: Fix locking in symbol_put_addr()

 kernel/module.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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