linux/arch/powerpc
Linus Torvalds 5336377d62 modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race
With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code
that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it
possible to do most of the module loading in parallel.

However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code
that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling.  That code was
doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for
dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific
"module_finalize()" rather than from generic code.

Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin
with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the
module loading lock any more.

So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away
from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the
process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations
are now safe.

Future fixups:
 - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it
   belongs.
 - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules
   (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain
   for other reasons.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
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boot Merge remote branch 'jwb/merge' into merge 2010-08-24 14:36:45 +10:00
configs powerpc: Trim defconfigs 2010-08-09 11:19:16 +10:00
include/asm compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
kernel modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
kvm Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2010-08-05 09:03:46 -07:00
lib Merge commit 'paulus-perf/master' into next 2010-07-09 11:25:48 +10:00
math-emu
mm powerpc: Export memstart_addr and kernstart_addr on ppc64 2010-08-24 15:26:26 +10:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: Don't build server oprofile drivers on 64-bit BookE 2010-07-14 14:13:54 +10:00
platforms Merge branch 'merge-powerpc' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2010-10-04 11:45:35 -07:00
sysdev powerpc/85xx: Add P1021 PCI IDs and quirks 2010-08-31 16:44:24 -05:00
xmon Input: sysrq - drop tty argument from sysrq ops handlers 2010-08-19 22:07:06 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-08-06 13:18:29 -07:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Unconditionally enabled irq stacks 2010-06-15 15:02:37 +10:00
Makefile powerpc: Fix typo in uImage target 2010-08-24 15:26:32 +10:00
relocs_check.pl powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00