livepatch: fix RCU usage in klp_find_external_symbol()
While one must hold RCU-sched (aka. preempt_disable) for find_symbol() one must equally hold it over the use of the object returned. The moment you release the RCU-sched read lock, the object can be dead and gone. [jkosina@suse.cz: change subject line to be aligned with other patches] Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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