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SubjectRe: Linux 2.4.1-ac15
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> So you fixed the nonexistent race only.  The real race is that the module

Umm I fixed the small race. You are right that there is a second race.

> uninitialized vmalloc'd (module_map'd) memory), then the module data
> (including the exception table) gets copied.
> The race window is from the first copy_from_user in sys_init_module until
> the second one.

Yep. Obvious answer. Ignore exception tables for modules that are not
MOD_RUNNING.

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