Re: [for-next][PATCH 09/18] tracing: Move pipe reference to trace array instead of current_tracer

Steven Rostedt
2020-07-31T21:16:30Z

On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:33:45 -0600
dann frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com> wrote:

> > This is marked as "Fixes" but is more of a clean up than a true fix.
> > Backport if you want, but its not critical.
>
> Thanks Steven! In case it helps backport consideration, I wanted to
> note that this addresses an issue we've seen with users trying to
> change current_tracer when they happen to have rasdaemon
> installed. rasdaemon uses the trace_pipe interface at runtime, which
> therefore blocks changing the current tracer. But of course, unless
> you know about rasdaemon internals, it isn't exactly an obvious
> failure mode.

Ah, then this should probably be backported.

When I push to Linus (during the next merge window) and it gets into
Linus's tree. Feel free to send stable@vger.kernel.org the sha1 of this
commit, and ask for it to be backported for the above stated reason.

-- Steve