On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 14:44 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > [cc'ing folks whose proc files are affected] > > kallsyms_lookup() can call module_address_lookup() which iterates over > modules list without module_mutex taken. Comment at the top of > module_address_lookup() says it's for oops resolution so races are > irrelevant, but in some cases it's reachable from regular code:
Yes, this changed somewhere along the way. I prefer keeping the lock internal as much as possible, and have the crash code use an __ variant of the function. Note also that it might be an idea to have less-powerful accessors than kallsyms_lookup... Thanks! Rusty. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
