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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-08-26 22:02:54 +0930
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-08-27 12:33:19 -0700
commit7d1d16e416e61aeef8655d542f8e4a4fc6e808e4 (patch)
treedfa53b29720cffdba1a64876de30567b6ed5e766 /kernel
parent0a80fb10239b04c45e5e80aad8d4b2ca5ac407b2 (diff)
downloadlinux-7d1d16e416e61aeef8655d542f8e4a4fc6e808e4.tar.gz
module: fix BUG_ON() for powerpc (and other function descriptor archs)
The rarely-used symbol_put_addr() needs to use dereference_function_descriptor
on powerpc.

Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index fd1411403558..07c80e68a6c4 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -909,16 +909,18 @@ void __symbol_put(const char *symbol)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__symbol_put);
 
+/* Note this assumes addr is a function, which it currently always is. */
 void symbol_put_addr(void *addr)
 {
 	struct module *modaddr;
+	unsigned long a = (unsigned long)dereference_function_descriptor(addr);
 
-	if (core_kernel_text((unsigned long)addr))
+	if (core_kernel_text(a))
 		return;
 
 	/* module_text_address is safe here: we're supposed to have reference
 	 * to module from symbol_get, so it can't go away. */
-	modaddr = __module_text_address((unsigned long)addr);
+	modaddr = __module_text_address(a);
 	BUG_ON(!modaddr);
 	module_put(modaddr);
 }