Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] time: mark syscore_ops as __ro_after_init

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat Feb 11 2017 - 04:23:31 EST


On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, John Stultz wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Jess Frazelle <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Marked syscore_ops structs as __ro_after_init when register_syscore_ops was
> > called only during init. Most of the caller functions were already annotated as
> > __init.
> > unregister_syscore_ops() was never called on these ops.
> > This protects the data structure from accidental corruption.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jess Frazelle <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for sending this out. Looks reasonable to me. I'll queue it for
> testing, targeting for 4.12.

NAK. See:

alpine.DEB.2.20.1702110948030.3734@nanos">http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1702110948030.3734@nanos

Thanks,

tglx