On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> writes: >> The commit >> >> 4982223e51e8 module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING. >> >> introduced a regression: if a module fails to parse its arguments or >> if mod_sysfs_setup fails, then the module's memory will be freed >> while still read-only. Anything that reuses that memory will crash >> as soon as it tries to write to it. > > Thanks, good catch.
Catching it was easy. Figuring out wtf was happening to my poor computer, on the other hand... :) > > Applied, > Rusty. -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/