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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2021-02-02 13:13:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> | 2021-02-08 12:21:40 +0100 |
| commit | a006050575745ca2be25118b90f1c37f454ac542 (patch) | |
| tree | 443ebee9efd98b83825c939c1a8879613ac32561 /kernel/livepatch | |
| parent | 089049f6c9956c5cf1fc89fe10229c76e99f4bef (diff) | |
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module: use RCU to synchronize find_module
Allow for a RCU-sched critical section around find_module, following
the lower level find_module_all helper, and switch the two callers
outside of module.c to use such a RCU-sched critical section instead
of module_mutex.
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/livepatch')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/livepatch/core.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c index f76fdb925532..262cd9b003b9 100644 --- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ #include <linux/moduleloader.h> #include <linux/completion.h> #include <linux/memory.h> +#include <linux/rcupdate.h> #include <asm/cacheflush.h> #include "core.h" #include "patch.h" @@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ static void klp_find_object_module(struct klp_object *obj) if (!klp_is_module(obj)) return; - mutex_lock(&module_mutex); + rcu_read_lock_sched(); /* * We do not want to block removal of patched modules and therefore * we do not take a reference here. The patches are removed by @@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ static void klp_find_object_module(struct klp_object *obj) if (mod && mod->klp_alive) obj->mod = mod; - mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); + rcu_read_unlock_sched(); } static bool klp_initialized(void) |