Patch "ARM: 8668/1: ftrace: Fix dynamic ftrace with DEBUG_RODATA and !FRAME_POINTER" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ARM: 8668/1: ftrace: Fix dynamic ftrace with DEBUG_RODATA and !FRAME_POINTER

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm-8668-1-ftrace-fix-dynamic-ftrace-with-debug_rodata-and-frame_pointer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:40:23 CET 2018
From: Abel Vesa <abelvesa@linux.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 23:58:54 +0100
Subject: ARM: 8668/1: ftrace: Fix dynamic ftrace with DEBUG_RODATA and !FRAME_POINTER

From: Abel Vesa <abelvesa@linux.com>


[ Upstream commit 6f05d0761af612e04572ba4d65b4c0274a88444f ]

The support for dynamic ftrace with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA involves
overriding the weak arch_ftrace_update_code() with a variant which makes
the kernel text writable around the patching.

This override was however added under the CONFIG_OLD_MCOUNT ifdef, and
CONFIG_OLD_MCOUNT is only enabled if frame pointers are enabled.

This leads to non-functional dynamic ftrace (ftrace triggers a
WARN_ON()) when CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is enabled and CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
is not.

Move the override out of that ifdef and into the CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
ifdef where it belongs.

Fixes: 80d6b0c2eed2a ("ARM: mm: allow text and rodata sections to be read-only")
Suggested-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abelvesa@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -29,11 +29,6 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-#ifdef CONFIG_OLD_MCOUNT
-#define OLD_MCOUNT_ADDR	((unsigned long) mcount)
-#define OLD_FTRACE_ADDR ((unsigned long) ftrace_caller_old)
-
-#define	OLD_NOP		0xe1a00000	/* mov r0, r0 */
 
 static int __ftrace_modify_code(void *data)
 {
@@ -51,6 +46,12 @@ void arch_ftrace_update_code(int command
 	stop_machine(__ftrace_modify_code, &command, NULL);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_OLD_MCOUNT
+#define OLD_MCOUNT_ADDR	((unsigned long) mcount)
+#define OLD_FTRACE_ADDR ((unsigned long) ftrace_caller_old)
+
+#define	OLD_NOP		0xe1a00000	/* mov r0, r0 */
+
 static unsigned long ftrace_nop_replace(struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
 {
 	return rec->arch.old_mcount ? OLD_NOP : NOP;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from abelvesa@linux.com are

queue-4.9/arm-8668-1-ftrace-fix-dynamic-ftrace-with-debug_rodata-and-frame_pointer.patch