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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-01-29 17:13:22 -0500
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-01-29 01:13:23 -0500
commit6dd06c9fbe025f542bce4cdb91790c0f91962722 (patch)
tree5c946eb93f30c64fd435bdd6d1064880ef21557a /kernel/kallsyms.c
parentbb9d3d56e792d2619cc0903df4ac01d86ac1261d (diff)
module: make module_address_lookup safe
module_address_lookup releases preemption then returns a pointer into the module space. The only user (kallsyms) copies the result, so just do that under the preempt disable. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kallsyms.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kallsyms.c11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 2fc25810509e..7dadc71ce516 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -233,10 +233,11 @@ static unsigned long get_symbol_pos(unsigned long addr,
233int kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(unsigned long addr, unsigned long *symbolsize, 233int kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(unsigned long addr, unsigned long *symbolsize,
234 unsigned long *offset) 234 unsigned long *offset)
235{ 235{
236 char namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
236 if (is_ksym_addr(addr)) 237 if (is_ksym_addr(addr))
237 return !!get_symbol_pos(addr, symbolsize, offset); 238 return !!get_symbol_pos(addr, symbolsize, offset);
238 239
239 return !!module_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset, NULL); 240 return !!module_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset, NULL, namebuf);
240} 241}
241 242
242/* 243/*
@@ -251,8 +252,6 @@ const char *kallsyms_lookup(unsigned long addr,
251 unsigned long *offset, 252 unsigned long *offset,
252 char **modname, char *namebuf) 253 char **modname, char *namebuf)
253{ 254{
254 const char *msym;
255
256 namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN - 1] = 0; 255 namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN - 1] = 0;
257 namebuf[0] = 0; 256 namebuf[0] = 0;
258 257
@@ -268,10 +267,8 @@ const char *kallsyms_lookup(unsigned long addr,
268 } 267 }
269 268
270 /* see if it's in a module */ 269 /* see if it's in a module */
271 msym = module_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset, modname); 270 return module_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset, modname,
272 if (msym) 271 namebuf);
273 return strncpy(namebuf, msym, KSYM_NAME_LEN - 1);
274
275 return NULL; 272 return NULL;
276} 273}
277 274