On 1/8/25 10:04, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
dereference_symbol_descriptor() needs to obtain the module pointer
belonging to pointer in order to resolve that pointer.
The returned mod pointer is obtained under RCU-sched/ preempt_disable()
guarantees and needs to be used within this section to ensure that the
module is not removed in the meantime.

Extend the preempt_disable() section to also cover
dereference_module_function_descriptor().

Fixes: 04b8eb7a4ccd9 ("symbol lookup: introduce 
dereference_symbol_descriptor()")
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Naveen N Rao <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>

Nice catch.

Acked-by: Helge Deller <[email protected]>

This patch really should be backported.
Can you add a Cc: stable tag?

Helge


---
  include/linux/kallsyms.h | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kallsyms.h b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
index c3f075e8f60cb..1c6a6c1704d8d 100644
--- a/include/linux/kallsyms.h
+++ b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ static inline void *dereference_symbol_descriptor(void *ptr)

        preempt_disable();
        mod = __module_address((unsigned long)ptr);
-       preempt_enable();

        if (mod)
                ptr = dereference_module_function_descriptor(mod, ptr);
+       preempt_enable();
  #endif
        return ptr;
  }


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