Max Krasnyanskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
> unsigned long len,
> const char __user *uargs)
> {
> ...
>
> /* Now sew it into the lists so we can get lockdep and oops
> * info during argument parsing. Noone should access us, since
> * strong_try_module_get() will fail. */
> stop_machine_run(__link_module, mod, NR_CPUS);
> ...
> }
Wow you found some really bad code. I bet it wouldn't be that
difficult to fix the code to allow oops safe list insertion
without using the big stop machine overkill hammer.
-Andi
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