On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 05:48:37PM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> The list of loaded modules is walked through in
> module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol (called by kallsyms_on_each_symbol). The
> module_mutex lock should be acquired to prevent potential corruptions
> in the list.
>
> This was uncovered with new lockdep asserts in module code introduced by
> the commit 0be964be0d45 ("module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking") in
> recent next- trees.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>
Thanks!
Should we add a comment to kallsyms_on_each_symbol() so that others
don't make this mistake?
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Josh
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