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From: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <jcm@jonmasters.org>,
	<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: [PATCH v2] Race between cat /proc/kallsyms and rmmod
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:51:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1454291492-105918-1-git-send-email-chenweilong@huawei.com> (raw)

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

Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
---
 kernel/kallsyms.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 5c5987f..e09df60 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -516,6 +516,9 @@ static void *s_next(struct seq_file *m, void *p, loff_t *pos)
 
 static void *s_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
 {
+#ifdef	CONFIG_MODULES
+	mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
+#endif
 	if (!update_iter(m->private, *pos))
 		return NULL;
 	return m->private;
@@ -523,6 +526,9 @@ static void *s_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
 
 static void s_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
 {
+#ifdef	CONFIG_MODULES
+	mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
+#endif
 }
 
 static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
-- 
1.8.3.1

             reply	other threads:[~2016-02-01  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-01  1:51 Weilong Chen [this message]
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2007-03-14 11:40 Alexey Dobriyan

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