The patch titled
Subject: modules: wait do_free_init correctly
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
modules-wait-do_free_init-correctly-v3.patch
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/modules-wait-do_free_init-correctly-v3.patch
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From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: modules: wait do_free_init correctly
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:18:10 +0800
amend comment in do_init_module() and update commit msg
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240217081810.4155871-1-changbin.du@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 1a7b7d922081 ("modules: Use vmalloc special flag")
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Xiaoyi Su <suxiaoyi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/module/main.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/module/main.c~modules-wait-do_free_init-correctly-v3
+++ a/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -2598,8 +2598,8 @@ static noinline int do_init_module(struc
* Note that module_alloc() on most architectures creates W+X page
* mappings which won't be cleaned up until do_free_init() runs. Any
* code such as mark_rodata_ro() which depends on those mappings to
- * be cleaned up needs to sync with the queued work - ie
- * rcu_barrier()
+ * be cleaned up needs to sync with the queued work by invoking
+ * flush_module_init_free_work().
*/
if (llist_add(&freeinit->node, &init_free_list))
schedule_work(&init_free_wq);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from changbin.du@xxxxxxxxxx are
modules-wait-do_free_init-correctly.patch
modules-wait-do_free_init-correctly-v3.patch
