Re: [PATCH V3] riscv: patch_text: Fixup last cpu should be master

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Wed Apr 06 2022 - 16:49:22 EST


On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:13:36 PDT (-0700), Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 10:16:49PM +0800, guoren@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

These patch_text implementations are using stop_machine_cpuslocked
infrastructure with atomic cpu_count. The original idea: When the
master CPU patch_text, the others should wait for it. But current
implementation is using the first CPU as master, which couldn't
guarantee the remaining CPUs are waiting. This patch changes the
last CPU as the master to solve the potential risk.

Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

What commit id does this change fix?

I think it's been there since the beginning of our text patching, so

Fixes: 043cb41a85de ("riscv: introduce interfaces to patch kernel code")

seems like the best bet, but I'll go take another look before merging it. That's confusing here, as I acked it, but that was for an earlier version that touched more than one arch so it was more ambiguous as to which tree it was going through (IIRC I said one of those "LMK if you want it through my tree, but here's an Ack in case someone else wants to take it" sort of things, as I usually do when it's ambiguous).

Without a changelog, cover letter, or the other patches in the set it's kind of hard to tell, though ;)