Re: [patch] module: potential deadlock in error path

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Sun Jan 20 2013 - 20:20:07 EST


Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> We take the lock twice if we hit this goto.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Damn, just pushed that to Linus: should have read mail first.

I've added this, thanks.

The following changes since commit a7f2a366f62319dfebf8d4dfe8b211f631c78457:

ima: fallback to MODULE_SIG_ENFORCE for existing kernel module syscall (2012-12-24 09:35:48 -0500)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux.git tags/fixes-for-linus

for you to fetch changes up to 8f82d479da05bd7df8cca3a5fbc0273f73b601c0:

module: potential deadlock in error path (2013-01-21 11:29:33 +1030)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Various minor fixes, but a slightly more complex one to fix the per-cpu overload
problem introduced recently by kvm id changes.

(Now with an error path fix from Dan, thanks)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Alexander Graf (1):
virtio-blk: Don't free ida when disk is in use

Dan Carpenter (1):
module: potential deadlock in error path

Rusty Russell (2):
module: add new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED.
module: put modules in list much earlier.

Sasha Levin (1):
module: prevent warning when finit_module a 0 sized file

drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 7 +-
include/linux/module.h | 10 +--
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 2 +
kernel/module.c | 156 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
lib/bug.c | 1 +
5 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
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