From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 0be964be0 "module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking" breaks symbol_put_addr?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:40:55 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvxmkbmo.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150819124204.GP10304@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:19:43AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Indeed! That comment is wrong, and your fix is good.
>>
>> Care to S-O-B on it?
>
> Of course, here goes.
Thanks! This is an ancient bug (2009) which your extra assertions
caught. It's unlikely to have ever bitten anyone, but I've CC'd stable
for it anyway:
Fixes: a6e6abd575fc ("module: remove module_text_address()")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Applied,
Rusty.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-20 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-17 23:20 0be964be0 "module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking" breaks symbol_put_addr? Laura Abbott
2015-08-18 2:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-18 20:49 ` Rusty Russell
2015-08-19 12:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-20 1:10 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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