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Commit 0bf3ffb5 authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by Frieder Schrempf
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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: 04b8eb7a ("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: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108090457.512198-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 1c865f12
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