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4.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

commit 37815bf866ab6722a47550f8d25ad3f1a16a680c upstream.

The module notifier call chain for MODULE_STATE_COMING was moved up before
the parsing of args, into the complete_formation() call. But if the module failed
to load after that, the notifier call chain for MODULE_STATE_GOING was
never called and that prevented the users of those call chains from
cleaning up anything that was allocated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/554C52B9.9060700@gmail.com

Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Fixes: 4982223e51e8 "module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/module.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3366,6 +3366,9 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info
module_bug_cleanup(mod);
mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);

+ blocking_notifier_call_chain(&module_notify_list,
+ MODULE_STATE_GOING, mod);
+
/* we can't deallocate the module until we clear memory protection */
unset_module_init_ro_nx(mod);
unset_module_core_ro_nx(mod);


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