[PATCH 5.10] static_call: Replace pointless WARN_ON() in static_call_module_notify()

From: Alexey Nepomnyashih
Date: Sun Jan 26 2025 - 05:20:10 EST


From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit fe513c2ef0a172a58f158e2e70465c4317f0a9a2 upstream.

static_call_module_notify() triggers a WARN_ON(), when memory allocation
fails in __static_call_add_module().

That's not really justified, because the failure case must be correctly
handled by the well known call chain and the error code is passed
through to the initiating userspace application.

A memory allocation fail is not a fatal problem, but the WARN_ON() takes
the machine out when panic_on_warn is set.

Replace it with a pr_warn().

Fixes: 9183c3f9ed71 ("static_call: Add inline static call infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8734mf7pmb.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Alexey Nepomnyashih <sdl@xxxxxxxx>
---
Backport to fix CVE-2024-49954
Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49954
---
kernel/static_call.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/static_call.c b/kernel/static_call.c
index e9408409eb46..a008250e2533 100644
--- a/kernel/static_call.c
+++ b/kernel/static_call.c
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ static int static_call_module_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,
case MODULE_STATE_COMING:
ret = static_call_add_module(mod);
if (ret) {
- WARN(1, "Failed to allocate memory for static calls");
+ pr_warn("Failed to allocate memory for static calls\n");
static_call_del_module(mod);
}
break;
--
2.43.0