[PATCH] kernel/trace: Use rcu_assign_pointer() for setting fgraph hash pointers

From: Joel Fernandes (Google)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2020 - 17:18:24 EST


set_ftrace_early_graph() sets pointers without any explicit
release-barriers. Let us use rcu_assign_pointer() to ensure the same.

Note that ftrace_early_graph() calls ftrace_graph_set_hash() which does
do mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock); which should imply a release barrier.
However it is better to not depend on it and just use
rcu_assign_pointer() which should also avoid sparse errors in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 959ded08dc13f..340d30557a10e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -5477,9 +5477,9 @@ static void __init set_ftrace_early_graph(char *buf, int enable)
}

if (enable)
- ftrace_graph_hash = hash;
+ rcu_assign_pointer(ftrace_graph_hash, hash);
else
- ftrace_graph_notrace_hash = hash;
+ rcu_assign_pointer(ftrace_graph_notrace_hash, hash);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */

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