Commit 7d1d16e4 authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell Committed by Linus Torvalds
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module: fix BUG_ON() for powerpc (and other function descriptor archs) 



The rarely-used symbol_put_addr() needs to use dereference_function_descriptor
on powerpc.

Reported-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au.>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0a80fb10

kernel/module.c

+4 −2
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -909,16 +909,18 @@ void __symbol_put(const char *symbol) 
}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(__symbol_put);



/* Note this assumes addr is a function, which it currently always is. */

void symbol_put_addr(void *addr)

{

	struct module *modaddr;

	unsigned long a = (unsigned long)dereference_function_descriptor(addr);



	if (core_kernel_text((unsigned long)addr))

	if (core_kernel_text(a))

		return;



	/* module_text_address is safe here: we're supposed to have reference

	 * to module from symbol_get, so it can't go away. */

	modaddr = __module_text_address((unsigned long)addr);

	modaddr = __module_text_address(a);

	BUG_ON(!modaddr);

	module_put(modaddr);

}