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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6] Fix module_text_address/store_stackinfo race
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:24:31 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088051071.21510.8.camel@bach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406230349390.3273@montezuma.fsmlabs.com>

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 18:02, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> store_stackinfo() does an unlocked module list walk during normal runtime
> which opens up a race with the module load/unload code. This can be
> triggered by simply unloading and loading a module in a loop with
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC resulting in store_stackinfo() tripping over bad
> list pointers.

Hmmm...

	You can't move kernel_text_address into module.c, since it isn't
compiled for CONFIG_MODULES=n.

I don't really like debug code messing with this, but you might be right
about changing it to __kernel_text_address().

Rusty.
-- 
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-24  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-23  8:02 [PATCH][2.6] Fix module_text_address/store_stackinfo race Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-06-24  4:24 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-06-24  4:42   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-06-24  7:18     ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-24 15:26       ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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