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<updated>2016-01-07T17:17:39Z</updated>
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<title>ftrace/module: Call clean up function when module init fails early</title>
<updated>2016-01-07T17:17:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2016-01-06T01:32:47Z</published>
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If the module init code fails after calling ftrace_module_init() and before
calling do_init_module(), we can suffer from a memory leak. This is because
ftrace_module_init() allocates pages to store the locations that ftrace
hooks are placed in the module text. If do_init_module() fails, it still
calls the MODULE_GOING notifiers which will tell ftrace to do a clean up of
the pages it allocated for the module. But if load_module() fails before
then, the pages allocated by ftrace_module_init() will never be freed.

Call ftrace_release_mod() on the module if load_module() fails before
getting to do_init_module().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/567CEA31.1070507@intel.com

Reported-by: "Qiu, PeiyangX" &lt;peiyangx.qiu@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: a949ae560a511 "ftrace/module: Hardcode ftrace_module_init() call into load_module()"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.38+
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>module: Fix locking in symbol_put_addr()</title>
<updated>2015-08-24T01:07:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2015-08-20T01:04:59Z</published>
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Poma (on the way to another bug) reported an assertion triggering:

  [&lt;ffffffff81150529&gt;] module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x49/0x90
  [&lt;ffffffff81150822&gt;] __module_address+0x32/0x150
  [&lt;ffffffff81150956&gt;] __module_text_address+0x16/0x70
  [&lt;ffffffff81150f19&gt;] symbol_put_addr+0x29/0x40
  [&lt;ffffffffa04b77ad&gt;] dvb_frontend_detach+0x7d/0x90 [dvb_core]

Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt; produced a patch which lead us to
inspect symbol_put_addr(). This function has a comment claiming it
doesn't need to disable preemption around the module lookup
because it holds a reference to the module it wants to find, which
therefore cannot go away.

This is wrong (and a false optimization too, preempt_disable() is really
rather cheap, and I doubt any of this is on uber critical paths,
otherwise it would've retained a pointer to the actual module anyway and
avoided the second lookup).

While its true that the module cannot go away while we hold a reference
on it, the data structure we do the lookup in very much _CAN_ change
while we do the lookup. Therefore fix the comment and add the
required preempt_disable().

Reported-by: poma &lt;pomidorabelisima@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Fixes: a6e6abd575fc ("module: remove module_text_address()")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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<title>module: weaken locking assertion for oops path.</title>
<updated>2015-07-28T20:43:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
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<published>2015-07-28T20:22:14Z</published>
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We don't actually hold the module_mutex when calling find_module_all
from module_kallsyms_lookup_name: that's because it's used by the oops
code and we don't want to deadlock.

However, access to the list read-only is safe if preempt is disabled,
so we can weaken the assertion.  Keep a strong version for external
callers though.

Fixes: 0be964be0d45 ("module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking")
Reported-by: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>module: Fix load_module() error path</title>
<updated>2015-07-08T21:27:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2015-07-08T21:18:06Z</published>
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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 &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Reported-by: Arthur Marsh &lt;arthur.marsh@internode.on.net&gt;
Tested-by: Arthur Marsh &lt;arthur.marsh@internode.on.net&gt;
Fixes: 93c2e105f6bc ("module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T17:49:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-01T17:49:25Z</published>
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
  to speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module
  lock doing that too.

  A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
  breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
  another module (yeah, really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual
  suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
  appended too"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
  modules: only use mod-&gt;param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
  param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
  rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
  module: add per-module param_lock
  module: make perm const
  params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
  modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
  kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
  kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
  kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
  kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
  kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
  kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
  sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
  module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
  module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
  module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
  module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
  rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
  seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
  ...
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<title>param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.</title>
<updated>2015-06-28T05:16:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T21:14:38Z</published>
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As Dan Streetman points out, the entire point of locking for is to
stop sysfs accesses, so they're elided entirely in the !SYSFS case.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T22:07:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T22:07:37Z</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the driver core / firmware changes for 4.2-rc1.

  A number of small changes all over the place in the driver core, and
  in the firmware subsystem.  Nothing really major, full details in the
  shortlog.  Some of it is a bit of churn, given that the platform
  driver probing changes was found to not work well, so they were
  reverted.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (31 commits)
  Revert "base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources"
  Revert "base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error"
  Revert "of/platform: Use platform_device interface"
  Revert "base/platform: Remove code duplication"
  firmware: add missing kfree for work on async call
  fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers
  base:dd - Fix for typo in comment to function driver_deferred_probe_trigger().
  base/platform: Remove code duplication
  of/platform: Use platform_device interface
  base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error
  base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources
  firmware: use const for remaining firmware names
  firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request
  firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading
  firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check
  drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent
  sysfs: disambiguate between "error code" and "failure" in comments
  driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULES
  driver-core: make __device_attach() static
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T21:02:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T21:02:43Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This patch series contains several clean ups and even a new trace
  clock "monitonic raw".  Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer
  even faster.  But the biggest and most noticeable change is the
  renaming of the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to
  deal with trace events.

  Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their
  confusion with what ftrace is compared to events.  Technically,
  "ftrace" is the infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include
  tracing and also helps with live kernel patching.  But the trace
  events are a separate entity altogether, and the files that affect the
  trace events should not be named "ftrace".  These include:

    include/trace/ftrace.h         -&gt;    include/trace/trace_events.h
    include/linux/ftrace_event.h   -&gt;    include/linux/trace_events.h

  Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed:

    ftrace_print_*()               -&gt;    trace_print_*()
    (un)register_ftrace_event()    -&gt;    (un)register_trace_event()
    ftrace_event_name()            -&gt;    trace_event_name()
    ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() -&gt;    trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
    ftrace_define_fields_##call()  -&gt;    trace_define_fields_##call()
    ftrace_get_offsets_##call()    -&gt;    trace_get_offsets_##call()

  Structures have been renamed:

    ftrace_event_file              -&gt;    trace_event_file
    ftrace_event_{call,class}      -&gt;    trace_event_{call,class}
    ftrace_event_buffer            -&gt;    trace_event_buffer
    ftrace_subsystem_dir           -&gt;    trace_subsystem_dir
    ftrace_event_raw_##call        -&gt;    trace_event_raw_##call
    ftrace_event_data_offset_##call-&gt;    trace_event_data_offset_##call
    ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call -&gt;    trace_event_type_funcs_##call

  And a few various variables and flags have also been updated.

  This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not
  heard a single complaint about this rename breaking anything.  Mostly
  because these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal
  to the tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything
  external to that"

* tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  ring_buffer: Allow to exit the ring buffer benchmark immediately
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong type
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong param in module_param
  ring-buffer: Add enum names for the context levels
  ring-buffer: Remove useless unused tracing_off_permanent()
  ring-buffer: Give NMIs a chance to lock the reader_lock
  ring-buffer: Add trace_recursive checks to ring_buffer_write()
  ring-buffer: Allways do the trace_recursive checks
  ring-buffer: Move recursive check to per_cpu descriptor
  ring-buffer: Add unlikelys to make fast path the default
  tracing: Rename ftrace_get_offsets_##call() to trace_event_get_offsets_##call()
  tracing: Rename ftrace_define_fields_##call() to trace_event_define_fields_##call()
  tracing: Rename ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call to trace_event_type_funcs_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_data_offset_##call to trace_event_data_offset_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_raw_##call event structures to trace_event_raw_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() to trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
  tracing: Rename FTRACE_EVENT_FL_* flags to EVENT_FILE_FL_*
  tracing: Rename struct ftrace_subsystem_dir to trace_subsystem_dir
  tracing: Rename ftrace_event_name() to trace_event_name()
  tracing: Rename FTRACE_MAX_EVENT to TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX
  ...
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<title>module: add per-module param_lock</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T05:57:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Streetman</name>
<email>ddstreet@ieee.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-16T20:48:52Z</published>
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Add a "param_lock" mutex to each module, and update params.c to use
the correct built-in or module mutex while locking kernel params.
Remove the kparam_block_sysfs_r/w() macros, replace them with direct
calls to kernel_param_[un]lock(module).

The kernel param code currently uses a single mutex to protect
modification of any and all kernel params.  While this generally works,
there is one specific problem with it; a module callback function
cannot safely load another module, i.e. with request_module() or even
with indirect calls such as crypto_has_alg().  If the module to be
loaded has any of its params configured (e.g. with a /etc/modprobe.d/*
config file), then the attempt will result in a deadlock between the
first module param callback waiting for modprobe, and modprobe trying to
lock the single kernel param mutex to set the new module's param.

This fixes that by using per-module mutexes, so that each individual module
is protected against concurrent changes in its own kernel params, but is
not blocked by changes to other module params.  All built-in modules
continue to use the built-in mutex, since they will always be loaded at
runtime and references (e.g. request_module(), crypto_has_alg()) to them
will never cause load-time param changing.

This also simplifies the interface used by modules to block sysfs access
to their params; while there are currently functions to block and unblock
sysfs param access which are split up by read and write and expect a single
kernel param to be passed, their actual operation is identical and applies
to all params, not just the one passed to them; they simply lock and unlock
the global param mutex.  They are replaced with direct calls to
kernel_param_[un]lock(THIS_MODULE), which locks THIS_MODULE's param_lock, or
if the module is built-in, it locks the built-in mutex.

Suggested-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>Merge 4.1-rc7 into driver-core-next</title>
<updated>2015-06-08T17:19:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-08T17:19:40Z</published>
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We want the fixes in this branch as well for testing and merge
resolution.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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