From fe0d34d242fa1e0dec059e774d146a705420bc9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell 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 Cc: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- kernel/module.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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);