From: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab(a)nec.com&gt; An infinite loop occured in mod_symname_hash_install() during module symbols initialization on 6.13-rc1 kernel. Not sure which kernel patch caused this (probably execmem patches), a gap region between a module text and another module's one has gone, i.e. they became consecutive. In this case, as we set a module's pseudo end symbol to "base + size" value, it's equal to another module's pseudo start symbol. This and qsort() for st->ext_module_symbtable cause region overlaps like this: sp sp->value sp->name 823ac68 ffffffffc0800000 _MODULE_TEXT_START_dm_mod ... 8242080 ffffffffc0814ad0 __pfx_dm_devt_from_path 82420a8 ffffffffc0814ae0 dm_devt_from_path 82420d0 ffffffffc0815000 _MODULE_TEXT_START_libcrc32c << same value 82420f8 ffffffffc0815000 __pfx_crc32c << and 8242120 ffffffffc0815000 _MODULE_TEXT_END_dm_mod << overlap 8242148 ffffffffc0815010 crc32c 8242170 ffffffffc0815080 __pfx_libcrc32c_mod_fini ... 8242238 ffffffffc0816000 _MODULE_TEXT_END_libcrc32c As a result, mod_symtable_hash_install_range() can add a module symbol two times, which makes a self-loop. This causes an infinite loop in mod_symname_hash_install(). Core was generated by `crash'. #0 mod_symname_hash_install (spn=0x75e6bc0) at symbols.c:1236 1236 if (!sp->name_hash_next || (gdb) p sp $1 = (struct syment *) 0x75e6670 (gdb) p sp->name $2 = 0x7c03573 "_MODULE_TEXT_START_libcrc32c" (gdb) p sp->name_hash_next $3 = (struct syment *) 0x75e6670 << self-loop To avoid this, fix module pseudo end symbols to "base + size - 1". Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab(a)nec.com&gt; --- symbols.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/symbols.c b/symbols.c index a26bdc1a3461..0fe5d2951c7e 100644 --- a/symbols.c +++ b/symbols.c @@ -2196,7 +2196,7 @@ store_module_symbols_6_4(ulong total, int mods_installed) if (!lm->mem[t].size) continue; - st->ext_module_symtable[mcnt].value = lm->mem[t].base + lm->mem[t].size; + st->ext_module_symtable[mcnt].value = lm->mem[t].base + lm->mem[t].size - 1; st->ext_module_symtable[mcnt].type = 'm'; st->ext_module_symtable[mcnt].flags |= MODULE_SYMBOL; sprintf(buf2, "%s%s", module_tag[t].end, mod_name); -- 2.31.1