[PATCH 03/18] pstore: Avoid race in module unloading

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 17:25:03 EST


Technically, it might be possible for struct pstore_info to go out of
scope after the module_put(), so report the backend name first.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/pstore/platform.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index 074fe85a2078..d69ef8a840b9 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -722,10 +722,10 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi)
*/
backend = psi->name;

- module_put(owner);
-
pr_info("Registered %s as persistent store backend\n", psi->name);

+ module_put(owner);
+
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pstore_register);
--
2.7.4