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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index fd141140..07c80e6 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -909,16 +909,18 @@
}
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);
}