From 5e376613899076396d0c97de67ad072587267370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trent Piepho Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:44:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel Even since a previous patch: Fix race between CONFIG_DEBUG_SLABALLOC and modules Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:55:19 +0000 (17:55 +0000) http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=92b3db26d31cf21b70e3c1eadc56c179506d8fbe The function symbol_put_addr() will deadlock the kernel. symbol_put_addr() would acquire modlist_lock, then while holding the lock call two functions kernel_text_address() and module_text_address() which also try to acquire the same lock. This deadlocks the kernel of course. This patch changes symbol_put_addr() to not acquire the modlist_lock, it doesn't need it since it never looks at the module list directly. Also, it now uses core_kernel_text() instead of kernel_text_address(). The latter has an additional check for addr inside a module, but we don't need to do that since we call module_text_address() (the same function kernel_text_address uses) ourselves. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo Acked-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Johannes Stezenbach Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/extable.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/extable.c') diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c index 7501b531cee..7fe26285531 100644 --- a/kernel/extable.c +++ b/kernel/extable.c @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ const struct exception_table_entry *search_exception_tables(unsigned long addr) return e; } -static int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr) +int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr) { if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext && addr <= (unsigned long)_etext) -- cgit v1.2.3