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linux/arch/avr32
Linus Torvalds 5336377d62 modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race
With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code
that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it
possible to do most of the module loading in parallel.

However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code
that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling.  That code was
doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for
dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific
"module_finalize()" rather than from generic code.

Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin
with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the
module loading lock any more.

So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away
from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the
process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations
are now safe.

Future fixups:
 - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it
   belongs.
 - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules
   (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain
   for other reasons.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
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boards Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6 2009-12-15 09:01:00 -08:00
boot avr32: remove .note.gnu.build-id section when making vmlinux.bin 2008-12-17 11:44:10 +01:00
configs defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
include/asm Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const 2010-08-13 16:53:13 -07:00
kernel modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
lib avr32/lib: fix unaligned memcpy where len < 4 2009-07-27 12:37:28 +02:00
mach-at32ap serial: fix rs485 for atmel_serial on avr32 2010-07-26 11:59:31 -07:00
mm avr32: invoke oom-killer from page fault 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
oprofile Add kernel support for oprofile callgraphs on AVR32 2008-09-22 09:51:01 +02:00
Kconfig time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME 2010-07-27 12:40:54 +02:00
Kconfig.debug [AVR32] Include instrumentation menu 2008-01-25 08:31:40 +01:00
Makefile kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE on the command line 2010-08-03 14:09:45 +02:00