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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-06 06:11:38 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-06 06:11:42 +0200
commited011b22ce567eabefa9ea571d3721c10ecd0553 (patch)
treec7aee6684613075c772388a99a9137014549434e /kernel/module.c
parent85bac32c4a52c592b857f2c360cc5ec93a097d70 (diff)
parente07cccf4046978df10f2e13fe2b99b2f9b3a65db (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc9' into tracing/core
Merge reason: move from -rc5 to -rc9. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index b1821438694..46580edff0c 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -914,16 +914,18 @@ 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);
}
@@ -1279,6 +1281,10 @@ static void add_notes_attrs(struct module *mod, unsigned int nsect,
struct module_notes_attrs *notes_attrs;
struct bin_attribute *nattr;
+ /* failed to create section attributes, so can't create notes */
+ if (!mod->sect_attrs)
+ return;
+
/* Count notes sections and allocate structures. */
notes = 0;
for (i = 0; i < nsect; i++)