From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] module: fix BUG_ON() for powerpc (and other function descriptor archs)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:02:54 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908262202.54457.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
The rarely-used symbol_put_addr() needs to use dereference_function_descriptor
on powerpc.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -909,16 +909,18 @@ void __symbol_put(const char *symbol)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__symbol_put);
+/* Note this assumes addr is a function, which it currently always is. */
void symbol_put_addr(void *addr)
{
struct module *modaddr;
+ unsigned long a = (unsigned long)dereference_function_descriptor(addr);
- if (core_kernel_text((unsigned long)addr))
+ if (core_kernel_text(a))
return;
/* module_text_address is safe here: we're supposed to have reference
* to module from symbol_get, so it can't go away. */
- modaddr = __module_text_address((unsigned long)addr);
+ modaddr = __module_text_address(a);
BUG_ON(!modaddr);
module_put(modaddr);
}
next reply other threads:[~2009-08-26 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-26 12:32 Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-08-26 12:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] module: workaround duplicate section names Rusty Russell
2009-08-27 4:53 ` Amerigo Wang
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