Re: [PATCH] module: Clean up ro/nx after early module load failures

[Rusty Russell]

Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> The commit
>
>     4982223e51e8 module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.
>
> introduced a regression: if a module fails to parse its arguments or
> if mod_sysfs_setup fails, then the module's memory will be freed
> while still read-only.  Anything that reuses that memory will crash
> as soon as it tries to write to it.

Thanks, good catch.

Applied,
Rusty.
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