linux-IllusionX/kernel/extable.c
Trent Piepho 5e37661389 [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>
2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00

67 lines
2 KiB
C

/* Rewritten by Rusty Russell, on the backs of many others...
Copyright (C) 2001 Rusty Russell, 2002 Rusty Russell IBM.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
extern struct exception_table_entry __start___ex_table[];
extern struct exception_table_entry __stop___ex_table[];
/* Sort the kernel's built-in exception table */
void __init sort_main_extable(void)
{
sort_extable(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table);
}
/* Given an address, look for it in the exception tables. */
const struct exception_table_entry *search_exception_tables(unsigned long addr)
{
const struct exception_table_entry *e;
e = search_extable(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table-1, addr);
if (!e)
e = search_module_extables(addr);
return e;
}
int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
{
if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext &&
addr <= (unsigned long)_etext)
return 1;
if (addr >= (unsigned long)_sinittext &&
addr <= (unsigned long)_einittext)
return 1;
return 0;
}
int __kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
{
if (core_kernel_text(addr))
return 1;
return __module_text_address(addr) != NULL;
}
int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
{
if (core_kernel_text(addr))
return 1;
return module_text_address(addr) != NULL;
}