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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2017-03-06 12:42:12 -0800
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2017-03-07 08:21:38 -0800
commit6330d5534786d5315d56d558aa6d20740f97d80a (patch)
treeb081b7ec57184b7c5a9bffdfb64071f2cc234040 /fs/pstore
parente9a330c4289f2ba1ca4bf98c2b430ab165a8931b (diff)
downloadlinux-6330d5534786d5315d56d558aa6d20740f97d80a.tar.gz
pstore: Shut down worker when unregistering
When built as a module and running with update_ms >= 0, pstore will Oops
during module unload since the work timer is still running. This makes sure
the worker is stopped before unloading.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pstore')
-rw-r--r--fs/pstore/platform.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index cfc1abd264d9..074fe85a2078 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -709,6 +709,7 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi)
 	if (psi->flags & PSTORE_FLAGS_PMSG)
 		pstore_register_pmsg();
 
+	/* Start watching for new records, if desired. */
 	if (pstore_update_ms >= 0) {
 		pstore_timer.expires = jiffies +
 			msecs_to_jiffies(pstore_update_ms);
@@ -731,6 +732,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pstore_register);
 
 void pstore_unregister(struct pstore_info *psi)
 {
+	/* Stop timer and make sure all work has finished. */
+	pstore_update_ms = -1;
+	del_timer_sync(&pstore_timer);
+	flush_work(&pstore_work);
+
 	if (psi->flags & PSTORE_FLAGS_PMSG)
 		pstore_unregister_pmsg();
 	if (psi->flags & PSTORE_FLAGS_FTRACE)
@@ -830,7 +836,9 @@ static void pstore_timefunc(unsigned long dummy)
 		schedule_work(&pstore_work);
 	}
 
-	mod_timer(&pstore_timer, jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(pstore_update_ms));
+	if (pstore_update_ms >= 0)
+		mod_timer(&pstore_timer,
+			  jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(pstore_update_ms));
 }
 
 module_param(backend, charp, 0444);