module: use RCU to synchronize find_module

Allow for a RCU-sched critical section around find_module, following
the lower level find_module_all helper, and switch the two callers
outside of module.c to use such a RCU-sched critical section instead
of module_mutex.
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>

include/linux/module.h

@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ static inline bool within_module(unsigned long addr, const struct module *mod)
 	return within_module_init(addr, mod) || within_module_core(addr, mod);
 }
 
-/* Search for module by name: must hold module_mutex. */
+/* Search for module by name: must be in a RCU-sched critical section. */
 struct module *find_module(const char *name);
 
 struct symsearch {

kernel/livepatch/core.c

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/moduleloader.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/memory.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include "core.h"
 #include "patch.h"
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ static void klp_find_object_module(struct klp_object *obj)
 	if (!klp_is_module(obj))
 		return;
 
-	mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
+	rcu_read_lock_sched();
 	/*
 	 * We do not want to block removal of patched modules and therefore
 	 * we do not take a reference here. The patches are removed by
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ static void klp_find_object_module(struct klp_object *obj)
 	if (mod && mod->klp_alive)
 		obj->mod = mod;
 
-	mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
+	rcu_read_unlock_sched();
 }
 
 static bool klp_initialized(void)

kernel/module.c

@@ -668,7 +668,6 @@ static struct module *find_module_all(const char *name, size_t len,
 
 struct module *find_module(const char *name)
 {
-	module_assert_mutex();
 	return find_module_all(name, strlen(name), false);
 }
 

kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c

@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ static nokprobe_inline bool trace_kprobe_module_exist(struct trace_kprobe *tk)
 	if (!p)
 		return true;
 	*p = '\0';
-	mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
+	rcu_read_lock_sched();
 	ret = !!find_module(tk->symbol);
-	mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
+	rcu_read_unlock_sched();
 	*p = ':';
 
 	return ret;