On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> mod->next = module_list;
put_mod_name() here.
> module_list = mod; /* link it in */
>
> Note no write barrier.
put_mod_name calls free_page which always implies a memory barrier. This
isn't beautiful but it won't blow up either.
Actually that isn't relevant since the actual table is copied _after_
ex_table_{start,end}. We'll scan uninitialized memory and if some word
happens to match the fault EIP we jump to the bogus fixup.
> Delete is even worse
>
> We unlink the module
> We free the memory
>
> At the same time another cpu may be walking the exception table that we free.
True.
Rusty had a patch that locked the module list properly IIRC.
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