[Devel] Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] Fix some kallsyms_lookup() vs rmmod races

[Rusty Russell]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 12:51 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at sw.ru> wrote:
> 
> > [cc'ing folks whose proc files are affected]
> > 
> > kallsyms_lookup() can call module_address_lookup() which iterates over 
> > modules list without module_mutex taken. Comment at the top of 
> > module_address_lookup() says it's for oops resolution so races are 
> > irrelevant, but in some cases it's reachable from regular code:
> 
> looking at the problem from another angle: wouldnt this be something 
> that would benefit from freeze_processes()/unfreeze_processes(), and 
> hence no locking would be required?

Actually, the list manipulation is done with stop_machine for this
reason. Alexey, is preempt enabled in your kernel?

Rusty.