From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10.y 0/2] disable ftrace of sbi functions
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 11:19:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YS9Fhr4tKFLAd5ds@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210818123406.197638-1-dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com>
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 01:34:04PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> One cannot ftrace functions used to setup ftrace. Doing so leads to a
> racy kernel panic as observed by users on SiFive HiFive Unmatched
> boards with Ubuntu kernels.
>
> This has been debugged and fixed in v5.12 kernels by ensuring that all
> sbi functions are excluded from ftrace.
>
> Link: https://forums.sifive.com/t/u-boot-says-unhandled-exception-illegal-instruction/4898/12
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1934548
>
> Guo Ren (2):
> riscv: Fixup wrong ftrace remove cflag
> riscv: Fixup patch_text panic in ftrace
>
> arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile | 5 +++--
> arch/riscv/mm/Makefile | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.30.2
>
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-18 12:34 [PATCH 5.10.y 0/2] disable ftrace of sbi functions Dimitri John Ledkov
2021-08-18 12:34 ` [PATCH 5.10.y 1/2] riscv: Fixup wrong ftrace remove cflag Dimitri John Ledkov
2021-08-18 12:34 ` [PATCH 5.10.y 2/2] riscv: Fixup patch_text panic in ftrace Dimitri John Ledkov
2021-09-01 9:19 ` Greg KH [this message]
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