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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent trace call into unloaded module text
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:17:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <492D3063.3030906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081124140427.GA14640@localhost>

Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Add marker_synchronize_unregister() before module unloading.
> This prevents possible trace calls into unloaded module text.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index a87f45e..64f38b3 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -2102,5 +2102,6 @@ void kvm_exit(void)
>  	kvm_arch_exit();
>  	kvm_exit_debug();
>  	__free_page(bad_page);
> +	marker_synchronize_unregister();
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_exit);
>   

What about kvm-intel.ko and kvm-amd.ko?  They also contain markers.


(and, why doesn't module unload do this automatically?)

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-26 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-24 14:04 [PATCH] Prevent trace call into unloaded module text Wu Fengguang
2008-11-26 11:17 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-11-26 11:46   ` Wu Fengguang
2008-11-26 11:59     ` Wu Fengguang
2008-11-27 13:32       ` Avi Kivity

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