Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] Fix some kallsyms_lookup() vs rmmod races
From: Rusty Russell
Date: Sat Mar 17 2007 - 20:46:39 EST
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 14:44 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> [cc'ing folks whose proc files are affected]
>
> kallsyms_lookup() can call module_address_lookup() which iterates over
> modules list without module_mutex taken. Comment at the top of
> module_address_lookup() says it's for oops resolution so races are
> irrelevant, but in some cases it's reachable from regular code:
Yes, this changed somewhere along the way.
I prefer keeping the lock internal as much as possible, and have the
crash code use an __ variant of the function.
Note also that it might be an idea to have less-powerful accessors than
kallsyms_lookup...
Thanks!
Rusty.
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