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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2015-05-27 11:09:35 +0930
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2015-05-28 11:31:52 +0930
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module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking
Currently the RCU usage in module is an inconsistent mess of RCU and RCU-sched, this is broken for CONFIG_PREEMPT where synchronize_rcu() does not imply synchronize_sched(). Most usage sites use preempt_{dis,en}able() which is RCU-sched, but (most of) the modification sites use synchronize_rcu(). With the exception of the module bug list, which actually uses RCU. Convert everything over to RCU-sched. Furthermore add lockdep asserts to all sites, because it's not at all clear to me the required locking is observed, esp. on exported functions. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/module.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/module.h12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index c883b86ea964..fb56dd85a862 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -421,14 +421,22 @@ struct symsearch {
bool unused;
};
-/* Search for an exported symbol by name. */
+/*
+ * Search for an exported symbol by name.
+ *
+ * Must be called with module_mutex held or preemption disabled.
+ */
const struct kernel_symbol *find_symbol(const char *name,
struct module **owner,
const unsigned long **crc,
bool gplok,
bool warn);
-/* Walk the exported symbol table */
+/*
+ * Walk the exported symbol table
+ *
+ * Must be called with module_mutex held or preemption disabled.
+ */
bool each_symbol_section(bool (*fn)(const struct symsearch *arr,
struct module *owner,
void *data), void *data);