From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:29:27 +0000 (-0700) Subject: modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc7~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5336377d6225959624146629ce3fc88ee8ecda3d;p=pandora-kernel.git modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it possible to do most of the module loading in parallel. However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling. That code was doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific "module_finalize()" rather than from generic code. Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the module loading lock any more. So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations are now safe. Future fixups: - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it belongs. - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain for other reasons. Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed