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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>, Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Subject: [for-next][PATCH 11/13] sh: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code()
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:28:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151224142901.218696743@goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20151224142752.534947674@goodmis.org

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From: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>

There is no need to worry about module and __init text disappearing
case, because that ftrace has a module notifier that is called when
a module is being unloaded and before the text goes away and this
code grabs the ftrace_lock mutex and removes the module functions
from the ftrace list, such that it will no longer do any
modifications to that module's text, the update to make functions
be traced or not is done under the ftrace_lock mutex as well.
And by now, __init section codes should not been modified
by ftrace, because it is black listed in recordmcount.c and
ignored by ftrace.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449367378-29430-5-git-send-email-huawei.libin@huawei.com

Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 arch/sh/kernel/ftrace.c | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/sh/kernel/ftrace.c
index 079d70e6d74b..38993e09ef03 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -212,13 +212,11 @@ static int ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code,
 	unsigned char replaced[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE];
 
 	/*
-	 * Note: Due to modules and __init, code can
-	 *  disappear and change, we need to protect against faulting
-	 *  as well as code changing. We do this by using the
-	 *  probe_kernel_* functions.
-	 *
-	 * No real locking needed, this code is run through
-	 * kstop_machine, or before SMP starts.
+	 * Note:
+	 * We are paranoid about modifying text, as if a bug was to happen, it
+	 * could cause us to read or write to someplace that could cause harm.
+	 * Carefully read and modify the code with probe_kernel_*(), and make
+	 * sure what we read is what we expected it to be before modifying it.
 	 */
 
 	/* read the text we want to modify */
-- 
2.6.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-24 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-24 14:27 [for-next][PATCH 00/13] tracing: More updates for 4.5 Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 01/13] ftrace: Fix a typo in comment Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 02/13] ftrace: Fix output of enabled_functions for showing tramp Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 03/13] ftrace: Remove use of control list and ops Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 04/13] ftrace: Have ftrace_ops_get_func() handle RCU and PER_CPU flags too Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 05/13] bpf: Constify bpf_verifier_ops structure Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 06/13] tracing: Use seq_buf_used() in seq_buf_to_user() instead of len Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 07/13] tracing: Introduce TRACE_EVENT_FN_COND macro Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:28 ` [for-next][PATCH 08/13] ftrace: Join functions ftrace_module_init() and ftrace_init_module() Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:28 ` [for-next][PATCH 09/13] ftrace: Clean up ftrace_module_init() code Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:28 ` [for-next][PATCH 10/13] ia64: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code() Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:28 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2015-12-24 14:28 ` [for-next][PATCH 12/13] metag: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code Steven Rostedt
2015-12-24 14:28 ` [for-next][PATCH 13/13] tracing: Fix comment to use tracing_on over tracing_enable Steven Rostedt

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