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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2025-01-08 10:04:35 +0100
committerPetr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>2025-03-10 11:54:44 +0100
commitfebaa65c94e0db795ec52c45bf7ede524cdce63c (patch)
tree2d5445742822458e87e0ccb54c87a9ee2534e017 /kernel/module
parentc4fadf38ded553edd6ea78ec6cc819e8fdd6f9d3 (diff)
module: Use RCU in find_module_all().
The modules list and module::kallsyms can be accessed under RCU assumption. Remove module_assert_mutex_or_preempt() from find_module_all() so it can be used under RCU protection without warnings. Update its callers to use RCU protection instead of preempt_disable(). Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108090457.512198-7-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module/kallsyms.c1
-rw-r--r--kernel/module/main.c6
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module/kallsyms.c b/kernel/module/kallsyms.c
index 4eef518204eb..3cba9f933b24 100644
--- a/kernel/module/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/module/kallsyms.c
@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ unsigned long module_kallsyms_lookup_name(const char *name)
unsigned long ret;
/* Don't lock: we're in enough trouble already. */
+ guard(rcu)();
preempt_disable();
ret = __module_kallsyms_lookup_name(name);
preempt_enable();
diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index 5f661d5343ac..cdd403b940b0 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -374,16 +374,14 @@ bool find_symbol(struct find_symbol_arg *fsa)
}
/*
- * Search for module by name: must hold module_mutex (or preempt disabled
- * for read-only access).
+ * Search for module by name: must hold module_mutex (or RCU for read-only
+ * access).
*/
struct module *find_module_all(const char *name, size_t len,
bool even_unformed)
{
struct module *mod;
- module_assert_mutex_or_preempt();
-
list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list,
lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex)) {
if (!even_unformed && mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED)