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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Rusty Russell wrote: > I keep fighting to keep it static 8) > > How's this: > > Name: Fix race between CONFIG_DEBUG_SLABALLOC and modules > Status: Compiled on 2.6.7 > Version: -mm > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (modified) > Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com> > > store_stackinfo() does an unlocked module list walk during normal runtime > which opens up a race with the module load/unload code. This can be > triggered by simply unloading and loading a module in a loop with > CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC resulting in store_stackinfo() tripping over bad > list pointers. > > kernel_text_address doesn't take any locks, because during an OOPS we > don't want to deadlock. Rename that to __kernel_text_address, and > make kernel_text_address take the lock. Thanks, looks good, works here. Zwane - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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