On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:32:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Awesome, lemme go write up a proper patch to make Rusty happy too ;-)

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Subject: module: Fix load_module() error path
From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Jul 8 14:35:58 CEST 2015

The load_module() error path frees a module but forgot to take it out
of the mod_tree, leaving a dangling entry in the tree, causing havoc.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Arthur Marsh <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arthur Marsh <[email protected]>
Fixes: 93c2e105f6bc ("module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched 
RB-tree")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/module.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3557,6 +3557,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info
        mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
        /* Unlink carefully: kallsyms could be walking list. */
        list_del_rcu(&mod->list);
+       mod_tree_remove(mod);
        wake_up_all(&module_wq);
        /* Wait for RCU-sched synchronizing before releasing mod->list. */
        synchronize_sched();
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