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From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
	Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] module: use RCU to synchronize find_module
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:29:02 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.2101291626080.22237@pobox.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210128181421.2279-5-hch@lst.de>

On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Allow for a RCU-sched critical section around find_module, following
> the lower level find_module_all helper, and switch the two callers
> outside of module.c to use such a RCU-sched critical section instead
> of module_mutex.

That's a nice idea.
 
> @@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ static void klp_find_object_module(struct klp_object *obj)
>  	if (!klp_is_module(obj))
>  		return;
>  
> -	mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
> +	rcu_read_lock_sched();
>  	/*
>  	 * We do not want to block removal of patched modules and therefore
>  	 * we do not take a reference here. The patches are removed by
> @@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ static void klp_find_object_module(struct klp_object *obj)
>  	if (mod && mod->klp_alive)

RCU always baffles me a bit, so I'll ask. Don't we need 
rcu_dereference_sched() here? "mod" comes from a RCU-protected list, so I 
wonder.

>  		obj->mod = mod;
>  
> -	mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
> +	rcu_read_unlock_sched();
>  }

Thanks

Miroslav

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-29 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-28 18:14 module loader dead code removal and cleanups v2 Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 01/13] powerpc/powernv: remove get_cxl_module Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 02/13] drm: remove drm_fb_helper_modinit Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-03 10:34   ` Daniel Vetter
2021-02-03 10:34     ` Daniel Vetter
2021-02-03 10:34     ` Daniel Vetter
2021-02-03 10:49     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 03/13] module: unexport find_module and module_mutex Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-29 15:16   ` Miroslav Benes
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 04/13] module: use RCU to synchronize find_module Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 20:50   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2021-01-28 20:50     ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2021-01-28 20:50     ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2021-01-29  5:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-29  5:10       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-29 21:29       ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2021-01-29 21:29         ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2021-01-29 10:04   ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-29 10:04     ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-29 15:29   ` Miroslav Benes [this message]
2021-02-01 11:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-01 11:46       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-01 12:10     ` Jessica Yu
2021-02-01 12:10       ` Jessica Yu
2021-02-01 12:10       ` Jessica Yu
2021-02-01 13:16       ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-01 13:16         ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-01 13:16         ` Miroslav Benes
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 05/13] kallsyms: refactor {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-29  9:43   ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-01 11:47     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-01 11:47       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-01 13:37       ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-01 13:37         ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-01 13:37         ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-01 16:28         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-01 16:28           ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-02 10:45           ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-02 10:45             ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-02 10:45             ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-01 14:02   ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-01 14:02     ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-01 14:02     ` Miroslav Benes
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 06/13] kallsyms: only build {, module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol when required Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 07/13] module: mark module_mutex static Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 08/13] module: remove each_symbol_in_section Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 09/13] module: merge each_symbol_section into find_symbol Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 10/13] module: pass struct find_symbol_args to find_symbol Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 11/13] module: move struct symsearch to module.c Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 12/13] module: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 18:14 ` [PATCH 13/13] module: remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL* Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-02 12:13 module loader dead code removal and cleanups v3 Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-02 12:13 ` [PATCH 04/13] module: use RCU to synchronize find_module Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-02 12:13   ` Christoph Hellwig

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