Re: [PATCH RFC] ftrace: Clear hashes of saved init functions

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 08:33:51 -0700
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun,  8 Oct 2017 14:33:04 -0700
> > Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  
> >>
> >>  static void
> >>  clear_mod_from_hash(struct ftrace_page *pg, struct ftrace_hash *hash)
> >>  {
> >> @@ -5771,12 +5807,24 @@ void ftrace_release_mod(struct module *mod)  
> >
> > This is too late. This should be done by ftrace_free_mem().
> >  
> 
> Ok, I agree with you. Initially I started to do it this way but the
> locking made it more complicated. I'll work on a patch that does it at
> free_mem time and send it out today.
> 

Yeah, I noticed that too. You may have to allocate pages to store what
is getting cleared. Of course that then begs the question, what do we
do when we fail to allocate? Perhaps just WARN_ONCE() and then let them
leak?

-- Steve