[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 <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index d24deb0dbbc9..bbe04862e1b0 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -705,14 +705,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__symbol_put);
 
 void symbol_put_addr(void *addr)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
+	struct module *modaddr;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&modlist_lock, flags);
-	if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)addr))
-		BUG();
+	if (core_kernel_text((unsigned long)addr))
+		return;
 
-	module_put(module_text_address((unsigned long)addr));
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&modlist_lock, flags);
+	if (!(modaddr = module_text_address((unsigned long)addr)))
+		BUG();
+	module_put(modaddr);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(symbol_put_addr);