linux/arch/sh
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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boards Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/genesis-2.6 into devel-stable 2010-08-06 18:13:19 +01:00
boot Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2010-06-04 15:42:09 -07:00
cchips
configs defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
drivers sh: Fix up IORESOURCE_PCI_FIXED usage in pcibios_fixup_device_resources(). 2010-06-07 11:42:01 +09:00
include archs: replace unifdef-y with header-y 2010-08-14 22:26:51 +02:00
kernel modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
lib arch/sh/lib/strlen.S: Checkpatch cleanup 2010-05-24 08:11:07 +09:00
lib64
math-emu Revert "endian: #define __BYTE_ORDER" 2010-05-26 08:30:15 -07:00
mm lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
oprofile
tools
Kconfig time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME 2010-07-27 12:40:54 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug
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