subject:"\[PATCH 03\/18\] pstore\: Avoid race in module unloading"

Re: [PATCH 03/18] pstore: Avoid race in module unloading

2017-03-07 Thread Kees Cook

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Namhyung Kim wrote: > Hi Kees, > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Kees Cook wrote: >> Technically, it might be possible for struct pstore_info to go out of >> scope after the module_put(), so report the backend name

Re: [PATCH 03/18] pstore: Avoid race in module unloading

2017-03-07 Thread Namhyung Kim

Hi Kees, On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > Technically, it might be possible for struct pstore_info to go out of > scope after the module_put(), so report the backend name first. But in that case, using pstore will crash the kernel anyway, right? If so,

[PATCH 03/18] pstore: Avoid race in module unloading

2017-03-06 Thread Kees Cook

Technically, it might be possible for struct pstore_info to go out of scope after the module_put(), so report the backend name first. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- fs/pstore/platform.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git