3.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
commit ff7e0055bb5ddbbb320cdd8dfd3e18672bddd2ad upstream.
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.
Cc: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/module.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3308,6 +3308,11 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info
mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
module_bug_cleanup(mod);
mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
+
+ /* we can't deallocate the module until we clear memory protection */
+ unset_module_init_ro_nx(mod);
+ unset_module_core_ro_nx(mod);
+
ddebug_cleanup:
dynamic_debug_remove(info->debug);
synchronize_sched();
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