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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To:     Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips/kprobes: flush_insn_slot should flush only if probe
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 03:20:32PM +0200, Marcin Nowakowski wrote:

> When ftrace is used with kprobes, it is possible for a kprobe to contain
> an invalid location (ie. only initialised to 0 and not to a specific
> location in the code). Trying to perform a cache flush on such location
> leads to a crash r4k_flush_icache_range().

Cute, 2.6.36+ ...

Applied,

  Ralf