Re: [patch 06/61] lock validator: add __module_address() method

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:23:33 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> +/*
> + * Is this a valid module address? We don't grab the lock.
> + */
> +int __module_address(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> +	struct module *mod;
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list)
> +		if (within(addr, mod->module_core, mod->core_size))
> +			return 1;
> +	return 0;
> +}

Returns a boolean.

>  /* Is this a valid kernel address?  We don't grab the lock: we are oopsing. */
>  struct module *__module_text_address(unsigned long addr)

But this returns a module*.

I'd suggest that __module_address() should do the same thing, from an API neatness
POV.  Although perhaps that's mot very useful if we didn't take a ref on the returned
object (but module_text_address() doesn't either).

Also, the name's a bit misleading - it sounds like it returns the address
of a module or something.  __module_any_address() would be better, perhaps?

Also, how come this doesn't need modlist_lock()?

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