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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>2007-05-08 00:28:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-08 11:15:08 -0700
commitea07890a680273b25127129fb555aac0d9324bea (patch)
treeb0742aa5dd90792dc10be3563c1181582d0f5d9e /kernel/kallsyms.c
parentae84e324709d6320ed8c1fd7b1736fcbaf26df95 (diff)
downloadlinux-ea07890a680273b25127129fb555aac0d9324bea.tar.gz
Fix race between rmmod and cat /proc/kallsyms
module_get_kallsym() leaks "struct module *" outside of module_mutex which is
no-no, because module can dissapear right after mutex unlock.

Copy all needed information from inside module_mutex into caller-supplied
space.

[bunk@stusta.de: is_exported() can now become static]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kallsyms.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kallsyms.c30
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index d086c91d44ed..f1ea6f66ac6c 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -301,25 +301,20 @@ void __print_symbol(const char *fmt, unsigned long address)
 struct kallsym_iter
 {
 	loff_t pos;
-	struct module *owner;
 	unsigned long value;
 	unsigned int nameoff; /* If iterating in core kernel symbols */
 	char type;
 	char name[KSYM_NAME_LEN+1];
+	char module_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN + 1];
+	int exported;
 };
 
 static int get_ksymbol_mod(struct kallsym_iter *iter)
 {
-	iter->owner = module_get_kallsym(iter->pos - kallsyms_num_syms,
-					 &iter->value, &iter->type,
-					 iter->name);
-	if (iter->owner == NULL)
+	if (module_get_kallsym(iter->pos - kallsyms_num_syms, &iter->value,
+				&iter->type, iter->name, iter->module_name,
+				&iter->exported) < 0)
 		return 0;
-
-	/* Label it "global" if it is exported, "local" if not exported. */
-	iter->type = is_exported(iter->name, iter->owner)
-		? toupper(iter->type) : tolower(iter->type);
-
 	return 1;
 }
 
@@ -328,7 +323,7 @@ static unsigned long get_ksymbol_core(struct kallsym_iter *iter)
 {
 	unsigned off = iter->nameoff;
 
-	iter->owner = NULL;
+	iter->module_name[0] = '\0';
 	iter->value = kallsyms_addresses[iter->pos];
 
 	iter->type = kallsyms_get_symbol_type(off);
@@ -392,12 +387,17 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
 	if (!iter->name[0])
 		return 0;
 
-	if (iter->owner)
+	if (iter->module_name[0]) {
+		char type;
+
+		/* Label it "global" if it is exported,
+		 * "local" if not exported. */
+		type = iter->exported ? toupper(iter->type) :
+					tolower(iter->type);
 		seq_printf(m, "%0*lx %c %s\t[%s]\n",
 			   (int)(2*sizeof(void*)),
-			   iter->value, iter->type, iter->name,
-			   module_name(iter->owner));
-	else
+			   iter->value, type, iter->name, iter->module_name);
+	} else
 		seq_printf(m, "%0*lx %c %s\n",
 			   (int)(2*sizeof(void*)),
 			   iter->value, iter->type, iter->name);