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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix error handling in load_module()
* Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> [2009-09-22 14:35:21]:

> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:11:21 am Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello, Andrew.
> >
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > My reverse engineering of the secret, undocumented percpu_modfree()
> > > indicates that its mad inventor intended that percpu_modfree(NULL) be a
> > > valid thing to do.
> > >
> > > It calls free_percpu(), all implementations of which appear to secretly
> > > support free_percpu(NULL).
> >
> > Eh... unfortunately, the original percpu_modfree() implementation
> > didn't seem to support it.
>
> OK, I'll Andrew's fix for Tejun, and after his (spot-on!) comment about
> percpu_modfree never taking NULL, I've fixed the one caller to match
> the other two:
>
> Subject: module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.
>
> The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent
> (CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's
> commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept
> that assumption.
>
> All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively
> does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc().

Thanks, the patch fixes the issue.

> Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
> Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
>
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -2522,8 +2522,8 @@ static noinline struct module *load_modu
> free_unload:
> module_unload_free(mod);
> #if defined(CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
> + percpu_modfree(mod->refptr);
> free_init:
> - percpu_modfree(mod->refptr);
> #endif
> module_free(mod, mod->module_init);
> free_core:
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