Re: [RFA][PATCH 2/5] ftrace/x86: One more missing sync after fixup of function modification failure

[Steven Rostedt]

H. Peter, I forgot to Cc you on this one. As you are the one I'm
looking for an Ack from.

-- Steve


On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:46:18 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [Request for Ack]
> 
> From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx>
> 
> If a failure occurs while modifying ftrace function, it bails out and will
> remove the tracepoints to be back to what the code originally was.
> 
> There is missing the final sync run across the CPUs after the fix up is done
> and before the ftrace int3 handler flag is reset.
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393258342-29978-2-git-send-email-pmladek@xxxxxxx
> 
> Fixes: 8a4d0a687a5 "ftrace: Use breakpoint method to update ftrace caller"
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.5+
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
> index 6b566c8..69885e2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
> @@ -660,8 +660,8 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned const char *old_code,
>  		ret = -EPERM;
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> -	run_sync();
>   out:
> +	run_sync();
>  	return ret;
>  
>   fail_update:

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