From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>,
Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: fix reference to mod->percpu after freeing module.
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 12:25:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C038E90.3020008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005311953.51694.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On 05/31/2010 12:23 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Rafael sees a sometimes crash at precpu_modfree from kernel/module.c; it
> only occurred with another (since-reverted) patch, but that patch simply
> changed timing to uncover this bug, it was otherwise unrelated.
>
> The comment about the mod being freed is self-explanatory, but neither
> Tejun nor I read it. This bug was introduced in 259354deaa, after it
> had previously been fixed in 6e2b75740b. How embarrassing.
>
> Reported-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Embarrassingly-Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks. :-)
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-31 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-25 21:00 [Regression] Crash in load_module() while freeing args Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-25 22:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-25 23:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-26 8:00 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-26 11:57 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-26 22:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-26 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-27 5:26 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-27 18:46 ` Brandon Philips
2010-05-31 9:40 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-31 12:00 ` [PATCH 0/2] kernel/module.c locking changes Rusty Russell
2010-05-31 12:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] module: make locking more fine-grained Rusty Russell
2010-05-31 12:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] module: fix bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c" Rusty Russell
2010-05-31 16:48 ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-31 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-31 20:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-31 20:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] Make the module 'usage' lists be two-way Linus Torvalds
2010-05-31 20:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] module: wait for other modules after dropping the module_mutex Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 1:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] Make the module 'usage' lists be two-way Rusty Russell
2010-06-01 3:42 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-01 4:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 4:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 2:44 ` Américo Wang
2010-06-01 3:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 1:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] module: fix bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c" Rusty Russell
2010-06-01 3:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 4:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 5:19 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-02 3:15 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-01 1:21 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-01 3:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 5:22 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-01 14:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 23:24 ` Brandon Philips
2010-06-01 23:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-02 2:10 ` Brandon Philips
2010-06-02 3:03 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-02 4:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-02 4:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-02 6:35 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-02 7:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-02 8:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-02 9:07 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-02 5:52 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-02 7:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-02 14:06 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-02 14:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 13:06 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-02 16:53 ` Brandon Philips
2010-06-02 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 5:20 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-03 16:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-04 1:02 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-04 1:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-04 5:20 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-04 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-05 1:49 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-02 3:09 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-02 4:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-02 4:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-02 5:52 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-02 6:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 1:04 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-01 5:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] module: make locking more fine-grained Américo Wang
2010-06-01 5:55 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-27 21:57 ` [Regression] Crash in load_module() while freeing args Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-31 7:54 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-31 10:23 ` [PATCH] module: fix reference to mod->percpu after freeing module Rusty Russell
2010-05-31 10:25 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-05-26 15:41 ` [Regression] Crash in load_module() while freeing args Linus Torvalds
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