[patch 64/88] KVM: Prevent trace call into unloaded module text

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 13:36:21 EST



2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

(cherry picked from b82091824ee4970adf92d5cd6d57b12273171625)

Add marker_synchronize_unregister() before module unloading.
This prevents possible trace calls into unloaded module text.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_trace.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_trace.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_trace.c
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ void kvm_trace_cleanup(void)
struct kvm_trace_probe *p = &kvm_trace_probes[i];
marker_probe_unregister(p->name, p->probe_func, p);
}
+ marker_synchronize_unregister();

relay_close(kt->rchan);
debugfs_remove(kt->lost_file);


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