From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:12:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: kernel: fix vmalloc stack traces triggered by module with an empty init section ... 
X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fsvn-archive%2Farchive.git;a=commitdiff_plain;hb=657c707ca3919038fa1233192f1dfc62f8e154d4

kernel: fix vmalloc stack traces triggered by module with an empty init section (mostly happens on x86)

SVN-Revision: 30813
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diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.2/340-module_alloc_size_check.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.2/340-module_alloc_size_check.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6c7e50a0b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.2/340-module_alloc_size_check.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- a/kernel/module.c
++++ b/kernel/module.c
+@@ -2286,12 +2286,15 @@
+ 
+ void * __weak module_alloc(unsigned long size)
+ {
+-	return size == 0 ? NULL : vmalloc_exec(size);
++	return vmalloc_exec(size);
+ }
+ 
+ static void *module_alloc_update_bounds(unsigned long size)
+ {
+-	void *ret = module_alloc(size);
++	void *ret = NULL;
++
++	if (size)
++		ret = module_alloc(size);
+ 
+ 	if (ret) {
+ 		mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.3/340-module_alloc_size_check.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.3/340-module_alloc_size_check.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9830bc507c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.3/340-module_alloc_size_check.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- a/kernel/module.c
++++ b/kernel/module.c
+@@ -2322,12 +2322,15 @@
+ 
+ void * __weak module_alloc(unsigned long size)
+ {
+-	return size == 0 ? NULL : vmalloc_exec(size);
++	return vmalloc_exec(size);
+ }
+ 
+ static void *module_alloc_update_bounds(unsigned long size)
+ {
+-	void *ret = module_alloc(size);
++	void *ret = NULL;
++
++	if (size)
++		ret = module_alloc(size);
+ 
+ 	if (ret) {
+ 		mutex_lock(&module_mutex);