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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2025-01-08 10:04:43 +0100
committerPetr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>2025-03-10 11:54:45 +0100
commit6593a2c990f251bce63ab8de0397405303e32381 (patch)
treed6ac6434f1f92c1c4c654de90e1d26d039265060
parent2abf84f688bed9cb4d3208d9d538b3387d292972 (diff)
module: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
__module_address() can be invoked within a RCU section, there is no requirement to have preemption disabled. Replace the preempt_disable() section around __module_address() with RCU. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108090457.512198-15-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kallsyms.h3
-rw-r--r--kernel/module/kallsyms.c5
-rw-r--r--kernel/module/main.c9
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kallsyms.h b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
index 1c6a6c1704d8d..d5dd54c53ace6 100644
--- a/include/linux/kallsyms.h
+++ b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
@@ -55,12 +55,11 @@ static inline void *dereference_symbol_descriptor(void *ptr)
if (is_ksym_addr((unsigned long)ptr))
return ptr;
- preempt_disable();
+ guard(rcu)();
mod = __module_address((unsigned long)ptr);
if (mod)
ptr = dereference_module_function_descriptor(mod, ptr);
- preempt_enable();
#endif
return ptr;
}
diff --git a/kernel/module/kallsyms.c b/kernel/module/kallsyms.c
index 0e8ec6486d95c..00a60796327c0 100644
--- a/kernel/module/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/module/kallsyms.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ void * __weak dereference_module_function_descriptor(struct module *mod,
/*
* For kallsyms to ask for address resolution. NULL means not found. Careful
- * not to lock to avoid deadlock on oopses, simply disable preemption.
+ * not to lock to avoid deadlock on oopses, RCU is enough.
*/
int module_address_lookup(unsigned long addr,
unsigned long *size,
@@ -330,7 +330,6 @@ int module_address_lookup(unsigned long addr,
struct module *mod;
guard(rcu)();
- preempt_disable();
mod = __module_address(addr);
if (mod) {
if (modname)
@@ -348,8 +347,6 @@ int module_address_lookup(unsigned long addr,
if (sym)
ret = strscpy(namebuf, sym, KSYM_NAME_LEN);
}
- preempt_enable();
-
return ret;
}
diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index aebb17e1bfb97..8a8b499730d86 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -3731,13 +3731,8 @@ const struct exception_table_entry *search_module_extables(unsigned long addr)
*/
bool is_module_address(unsigned long addr)
{
- bool ret;
-
- preempt_disable();
- ret = __module_address(addr) != NULL;
- preempt_enable();
-
- return ret;
+ guard(rcu)();
+ return __module_address(addr) != NULL;
}
/**