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module: Extend the preempt disabled section in dereference_symbol_descriptor().
authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Wed, 8 Jan 2025 09:04:30 +0000 (10:04 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:50:10 +0000 (12:50 +0100)
commitf6bae8cc42ab05968ab072c038b1f7078d317fee
treefd1c8fc480758abf2c3c1714fd5c18df34fc7335
parent2e2bb52b8e58c873090c15071b87a32f39aab442
module: Extend the preempt disabled section in dereference_symbol_descriptor().

[ Upstream commit a145c848d69f9c6f32008d8319edaa133360dd74 ]

dereference_symbol_descriptor() needs to obtain the module pointer
belonging to pointer in order to resolve that pointer.
The returned mod pointer is obtained under RCU-sched/ preempt_disable()
guarantees and needs to be used within this section to ensure that the
module is not removed in the meantime.

Extend the preempt_disable() section to also cover
dereference_module_function_descriptor().

Fixes: 04b8eb7a4ccd9 ("symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()")
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108090457.512198-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/linux/kallsyms.h