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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, hekuang@huawei.com, peterz@infradead.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] module: weaken locking assertion for oops path." failed to apply to 4.1-stable tree
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:15:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1439514956185245@kroah.com> (raw)


The patch below does not apply to the 4.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From fe0d34d242fa1e0dec059e774d146a705420bc9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:52:14 +0930
Subject: [PATCH] module: weaken locking assertion for oops path.

We don't actually hold the module_mutex when calling find_module_all
from module_kallsyms_lookup_name: that's because it's used by the oops
code and we don't want to deadlock.

However, access to the list read-only is safe if preempt is disabled,
so we can weaken the assertion.  Keep a strong version for external
callers though.

Fixes: 0be964be0d45 ("module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking")
Reported-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 4d2b82e610e2..b86b7bf1be38 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -602,13 +602,16 @@ const struct kernel_symbol *find_symbol(const char *name,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(find_symbol);
 
-/* Search for module by name: must hold module_mutex. */
+/*
+ * Search for module by name: must hold module_mutex (or preempt disabled
+ * for read-only access).
+ */
 static struct module *find_module_all(const char *name, size_t len,
 				      bool even_unformed)
 {
 	struct module *mod;
 
-	module_assert_mutex();
+	module_assert_mutex_or_preempt();
 
 	list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) {
 		if (!even_unformed && mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED)
@@ -621,6 +624,7 @@ static struct module *find_module_all(const char *name, size_t len,
 
 struct module *find_module(const char *name)
 {
+	module_assert_mutex();
 	return find_module_all(name, strlen(name), false);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(find_module);


             reply	other threads:[~2015-08-14  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-14  1:15 gregkh [this message]
2015-08-15  3:30 ` FAILED: patch "[PATCH] module: weaken locking assertion for oops path." failed to apply to 4.1-stable tree Rusty Russell
2015-08-15 15:57   ` Greg KH

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