The patch titled Race between cat /proc/kallsyms and rmmod has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was race-between-cat-proc-kallsyms-and-rmmod.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Race between cat /proc/kallsyms and rmmod From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxx> Iterating code of /proc/kallsyms calls module_get_kallsym() which grabs and drops module_mutex internally and returns "struct module *", module is removed, aforementioned "struct module *" is used in non-trivial way. So, grab module_mutex for entire operation like /proc/modules does. Steps to reproduce: while true; do modprobe xfs; rmmod xfs; done vs while true; do cat /proc/kallsyms >/dev/null; done [where xfs could be any module, I haven't tried] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e19f808c printing eip: c01dc361 *pde = 1ff5f067 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c01dc361>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010297 (2.6.21-rc3-8b9909ded6922c33c221b105b26917780cfa497d #2) EIP is at vsnprintf+0x2af/0x48c eax: e19f808c ebx: ffffffff ecx: e19f808c edx: fffffffe esi: dbe7aa84 edi: dbe2bf3c ebp: ffffffff esp: dbe2bec4 ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068 Process cat (pid: 7242, ti=dbe2b000 task=df5790b0 task.ti=dbe2b000) Stack: e19d6fde 00000000 00000010 00000008 ffffffff 00000001 00000598 dbe7aa68 0002f362 00000010 dbe7b000 00000000 ffffffff c034bbe0 dbe7aa68 dfd31880 dfa31e80 00001000 c01586b0 dbe2bf2c dbe2bf2c dfd31880 dfd31880 c01289f6 Call Trace: [<c01586b0>] seq_printf+0x2e/0x4b [<c01289f6>] s_show+0x4b/0x7f [<c0158c6e>] seq_read+0x196/0x278 [<c0158ad8>] seq_read+0x0/0x278 [<c0143c35>] vfs_read+0x72/0x93 [<c0143f1c>] sys_read+0x41/0x67 [<c0102486>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 ======================= Code: 74 24 28 73 03 c6 06 20 46 4d 85 ed 7f f1 e9 b9 00 00 00 8b 0f 81 f9 ff 0f 00 00 b8 ea 45 36 c0 0f 46 c8 8b 54 24 30 89 c8 eb 06 <80> 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 89 c3 89 e8 f6 44 24 EIP: [<c01dc361>] vsnprintf+0x2af/0x48c SS:ESP 0068:dbe2bec4 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxx> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/module.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ kernel/kallsyms.c | 2 ++ kernel/module.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/module.h~race-between-cat-proc-kallsyms-and-rmmod include/linux/module.h --- a/include/linux/module.h~race-between-cat-proc-kallsyms-and-rmmod +++ a/include/linux/module.h @@ -16,10 +16,24 @@ #include <linux/stringify.h> #include <linux/kobject.h> #include <linux/moduleparam.h> +#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <asm/local.h> #include <asm/module.h> +extern struct mutex module_mutex; +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES +void module_mutex_lock(void); +void module_mutex_unlock(void); +#else +static inline void module_mutex_lock(void) +{ +} +static inline void module_mutex_unlock(void) +{ +} +#endif + /* Not Yet Implemented */ #define MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE(name) diff -puN kernel/kallsyms.c~race-between-cat-proc-kallsyms-and-rmmod kernel/kallsyms.c --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c~race-between-cat-proc-kallsyms-and-rmmod +++ a/kernel/kallsyms.c @@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ static void *s_next(struct seq_file *m, static void *s_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos) { + module_mutex_lock(); if (!update_iter(m->private, *pos)) return NULL; return m->private; @@ -382,6 +383,7 @@ static void *s_start(struct seq_file *m, static void s_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p) { + module_mutex_unlock(); } static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p) diff -puN kernel/module.c~race-between-cat-proc-kallsyms-and-rmmod kernel/module.c --- a/kernel/module.c~race-between-cat-proc-kallsyms-and-rmmod +++ a/kernel/module.c @@ -62,9 +62,19 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(modlist_lock); /* List of modules, protected by module_mutex AND modlist_lock */ -static DEFINE_MUTEX(module_mutex); +DEFINE_MUTEX(module_mutex); static LIST_HEAD(modules); +void module_mutex_lock(void) +{ + mutex_lock(&module_mutex); +} + +void module_mutex_unlock(void) +{ + mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); +} + static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(module_notify_list); int register_module_notifier(struct notifier_block * nb) @@ -2124,19 +2134,16 @@ struct module *module_get_kallsym(unsign { struct module *mod; - mutex_lock(&module_mutex); list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) { if (symnum < mod->num_symtab) { *value = mod->symtab[symnum].st_value; *type = mod->symtab[symnum].st_info; strlcpy(name, mod->strtab + mod->symtab[symnum].st_name, namelen); - mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); return mod; } symnum -= mod->num_symtab; } - mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); return NULL; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxx are origin.patch fix-race-between-proc_readdir-and-remove_proc_entry.patch proc-remove-pathetic-deleted-warn_on.patch race-between-cat-proc-kallsyms-and-rmmod.patch fix-some-kallsyms_lookup-vs-rmmod-races.patch fix-rmmod-read-write-races-in-proc-entries.patch proc-oom_score-oops-re-badness.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html