On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> The commit >> >> 4982223e51e8 module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING. >> >> introduced a regression: if a module fails to parse its arguments or >> if mod_sysfs_setup fails, then the module's memory will be freed >> while still read-only. Anything that reuses that memory will crash >> as soon as it tries to write to it. > > Thanks, good catch. Catching it was easy. Figuring out wtf was happening to my poor computer, on the other hand... :) > > Applied, > Rusty. -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html