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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index e8cf636e614b..1a9a3986b136 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1912,12 +1912,6 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, if (len > 64 * 1024 * 1024 || (hdr = vmalloc(len)) == NULL) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - /* Create stop_machine threads since the error path relies on - * a non-failing stop_machine call. */ - err = stop_machine_create(); - if (err) - goto free_hdr; - if (copy_from_user(hdr, umod, len) != 0) { err = -EFAULT; goto free_hdr; @@ -2303,12 +2297,13 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, /* Get rid of temporary copy */ vfree(hdr); - stop_machine_destroy(); /* Done! */ return mod; unlink: - stop_machine(__unlink_module, mod, NULL); + /* Unlink carefully: kallsyms could be walking list. */ + list_del_rcu(&mod->list); + synchronize_sched(); module_arch_cleanup(mod); cleanup: kobject_del(&mod->mkobj.kobj); @@ -2331,7 +2326,6 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, kfree(args); free_hdr: vfree(hdr); - stop_machine_destroy(); return ERR_PTR(err); truncated: |