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| author | Masami Hiramatsu | 2014-11-10 09:26:29 +1030 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell | 2014-11-11 17:07:44 +1030 |
| commit | 4f48795b6154852d07d971e402c35ecc460ddcb6 (patch) | |
| tree | 65ae9d457d88034c8105d1a94082653b90ca88d2 /kernel/module.c | |
| parent | 0df1f2487d2f0d04703f142813d53615d62a1da4 (diff) | |
module: Wait for RCU synchronizing before releasing a module
Wait for RCU synchronizing on failure path of module loading
before releasing struct module, because the memory of mod->list
can still be accessed by list walkers (e.g. kallsyms).
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 88cec1ddb1e3..331b03f6b411 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -3326,6 +3326,8 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs, /* Unlink carefully: kallsyms could be walking list. */ list_del_rcu(&mod->list); wake_up_all(&module_wq); + /* Wait for RCU synchronizing before releasing mod->list. */ + synchronize_rcu(); mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); free_module: module_deallocate(mod, info); |