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 --- include/linux/kernel.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/kernel.h') diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index e1bd0842f6a1..f4fc576ed4c4 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ extern int get_option(char **str, int *pint); extern char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints); extern unsigned long long memparse(char *ptr, char **retptr); +extern int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr); extern int __kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr); extern int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr); extern int session_of_pgrp(int pgrp); -- cgit v1.2.3