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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2025-01-08 10:04:30 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-02-08 10:02:06 +0100
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module: Extend the preempt disabled section in dereference_symbol_descriptor().
[ Upstream commit a145c848d69f9c6f32008d8319edaa133360dd74 ] dereference_symbol_descriptor() needs to obtain the module pointer belonging to pointer in order to resolve that pointer. The returned mod pointer is obtained under RCU-sched/ preempt_disable() guarantees and needs to be used within this section to ensure that the module is not removed in the meantime. Extend the preempt_disable() section to also cover dereference_module_function_descriptor(). Fixes: 04b8eb7a4ccd9 ("symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()") Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108090457.512198-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kallsyms.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kallsyms.h b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
index c3f075e8f60c..1c6a6c1704d8 100644
--- a/include/linux/kallsyms.h
+++ b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ static inline void *dereference_symbol_descriptor(void *ptr)
preempt_disable();
mod = __module_address((unsigned long)ptr);
- preempt_enable();
if (mod)
ptr = dereference_module_function_descriptor(mod, ptr);
+ preempt_enable();
#endif
return ptr;
}