Re: Module loading/unloading and "The Stop Machine"

[Max Krasnyanskiy]

Hi Andi,

> Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
> >                                  unsigned long len,
> >                                  const char __user *uargs)
> > {
> >      ...
> >
> >      /* Now sew it into the lists so we can get lockdep and oops
> >         * info during argument parsing.  Noone should access us, since
> >         * strong_try_module_get() will fail. */
> >        stop_machine_run(__link_module, mod, NR_CPUS);
> >      ...
> > }
>
> Wow you found some really bad code. I bet it wouldn't be that
> difficult to fix the code to allow oops safe list insertion
> without using the big stop machine overkill hammer.
Let me know if you have something in mind. When I get a chance I'll stare
some more at that code and try to come up with an alternative solution.

Thanx
Max
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