From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Taehee Yoo' <ap420073@gmail.com>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"kuba@kernel.org" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
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"wil6210@qti.qualcomm.com" <wil6210@qti.qualcomm.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH net 000/117] net: avoid to remove module when its debugfs is being used
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 15:59:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1cbb69d83188424e99b2d2482848ae64@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201008155048.17679-1-ap420073@gmail.com>
From: Taehee Yoo
> Sent: 08 October 2020 16:49
>
> When debugfs file is opened, its module should not be removed until
> it's closed.
> Because debugfs internally uses the module's data.
> So, it could access freed memory.
>
> In order to avoid panic, it just sets .owner to THIS_MODULE.
> So that all modules will be held when its debugfs file is opened.
Can't you fix it in common code?
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-08 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 15:48 [PATCH net 000/117] net: avoid to remove module when its debugfs is being used Taehee Yoo
2020-10-08 15:59 ` David Laight [this message]
2020-10-08 16:14 ` Johannes Berg
2020-10-08 16:37 ` Taehee Yoo
2020-10-09 5:38 ` Nicolai Stange
2020-10-09 10:07 ` Taehee Yoo
2020-10-09 5:09 ` Nicolai Stange
2020-10-09 7:45 ` Johannes Berg
2020-10-09 10:15 ` Taehee Yoo
2020-10-09 10:21 ` Johannes Berg
2020-10-09 15:33 ` Steve deRosier
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