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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-06-05 13:17:36 -0400
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-06-04 21:47:37 -0400
commit3bafeb6247042dcbb72b0141ec7c7107de9f0b99 (patch)
treef9b8f2437455332cd64d94bedb0836ac0f2b6fd9 /kernel/module.c
parent75676500f8298f0ee89db12db97294883c4b768e (diff)
module: move find_module check to end
I think Rusty may have made the lock a bit _too_ finegrained there, and didn't add it to some places that needed it. It looks, for example, like PATCH 1/2 actually drops the lock in places where it's needed ("find_module()" is documented to need it, but now load_module() didn't hold it at all when it did the find_module()). Rather than adding a new "module_loading" list, I think we should be able to just use the existing "modules" list, and just fix up the locking a bit. In fact, maybe we could just move the "look up existing module" a bit later - optimistically assuming that the module doesn't exist, and then just undoing the work if it turns out that we were wrong, just before adding ourselves to the list. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index d293c213c22c..28450047852a 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2226,11 +2226,6 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
2226 goto free_mod; 2226 goto free_mod;
2227 } 2227 }
2228 2228
2229 if (find_module(mod->name)) {
2230 err = -EEXIST;
2231 goto free_mod;
2232 }
2233
2234 mod->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING; 2229 mod->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING;
2235 2230
2236 /* Allow arches to frob section contents and sizes. */ 2231 /* Allow arches to frob section contents and sizes. */
@@ -2509,6 +2504,12 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
2509 * The mutex protects against concurrent writers. 2504 * The mutex protects against concurrent writers.
2510 */ 2505 */
2511 mutex_lock(&module_mutex); 2506 mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
2507 if (find_module(mod->name)) {
2508 err = -EEXIST;
2509 /* This will also unlock the mutex */
2510 goto already_exists;
2511 }
2512
2512 list_add_rcu(&mod->list, &modules); 2513 list_add_rcu(&mod->list, &modules);
2513 mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); 2514 mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
2514 2515
@@ -2535,6 +2536,7 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
2535 mutex_lock(&module_mutex); 2536 mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
2536 /* Unlink carefully: kallsyms could be walking list. */ 2537 /* Unlink carefully: kallsyms could be walking list. */
2537 list_del_rcu(&mod->list); 2538 list_del_rcu(&mod->list);
2539 already_exists:
2538 mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); 2540 mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
2539 synchronize_sched(); 2541 synchronize_sched();
2540 module_arch_cleanup(mod); 2542 module_arch_cleanup(mod);