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author | Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> | 2010-10-01 17:23:41 -0400 |
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committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2010-10-28 09:17:02 -0400 |
commit | b842f8faf6c7dc2005c6a70631c1a91bac02f180 (patch) | |
tree | fa4c5ed7136be2e39b728173fcae2385b119bcef /kernel/cpu.c | |
parent | e3e1288e86a07cdeb0aee5860a2dff111c6eff79 (diff) |
jump label: Fix module __init section race
Jump label uses is_module_text_address() to ensure that the module
__init sections are valid before updating them. However, between the
check for a valid module __init section and the subsequent jump
label update, the module's __init section could be freed out from under
us.
We fix this potential race by adding a notifier callback to the
MODULE_STATE_LIVE state. This notifier is called *after* the __init
section has been run but before it is going to be freed. In the
callback, the jump label code zeros the key value for any __init jump
code within the module, and we add a check for a non-zero key value when
we update jump labels. In this way we require no additional data
structures.
Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for pointing out this race condition.
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <c6f037b7598777668025ceedd9294212fd95fa34.1285965957.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
[ Renamed remove_module_init() to remove_jump_label_module_init()
as suggested by Masami Hiramatsu. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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