On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 03:48:01PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> While looking through the __ex_table stuff I found that we do a linear
> lookup of the module. Also fix up a comment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>

I'm not all that familiar with the module code, but from a quick scan of
__module_address() this looks sane to me. FWIW:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>

Mark.

> ---
>  kernel/module.c | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index 3d8f126208e3..7bcdc35dbf95 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -4165,22 +4165,23 @@ const struct exception_table_entry 
> *search_module_extables(unsigned long addr)
>       struct module *mod;
>  
>       preempt_disable();
> -     list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) {
> -             if (mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED)
> -                     continue;
> -             if (mod->num_exentries == 0)
> -                     continue;
> +     mod = __module_address(addr);
> +     if (!mod)
> +             goto out;
>  
> -             e = search_extable(mod->extable,
> -                                mod->extable + mod->num_exentries - 1,
> -                                addr);
> -             if (e)
> -                     break;
> -     }
> +     if (!mod->num_exentries)
> +             goto out;
> +
> +     e = search_extable(mod->extable,
> +                        mod->extable + mod->num_exentries - 1,
> +                        addr);
> +out:
>       preempt_enable();
>  
> -     /* Now, if we found one, we are running inside it now, hence
> -        we cannot unload the module, hence no refcnt needed. */
> +     /*
> +      * Now, if we found one, we are running inside it now, hence
> +      * we cannot unload the module, hence no refcnt needed.
> +      */
>       return e;
>  }
>  

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