Re: [PATCH] module: avoid setting info->name early in case we can fall back to info->mod->name

[Miroslav Benes]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Jessica Yu wrote:

> In setup_load_info(), info->name (which contains the name of the module,
> mostly used for early logging purposes before the module gets set up)
> gets unconditionally assigned if .modinfo is missing despite the fact
> that there is an if (!info->name) check near the end of the function.
> Avoid assigning a placeholder string to info->name if .modinfo doesn't
> exist, so that we can fall back to info->mod->name later on.
> 
> Fixes: 5fdc7db6448a ("module: setup load info before module_sig_check()")
> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

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