linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/4] Propagate module notifier errors

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Date:   Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:25:41 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, mhiramat@...nel.org, bristot@...hat.com,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] Propagate module notifier errors

These patches came from the desire to propagate MODULE_STATE_COMING errors.
While looking at that I spotted fail with a number of module notifiers
themselves and with the whole notification business.

I will probably add a notifier for MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, but that is later.

Fixing this error propagation fixes a fairly serious (but really uncommon) bug
when memory allocation fails for jump-labels while loading a module. And since
we're going to be introducing more of that (static_call), fix it now.