Re: [PATCH] ftrace: Remove possible deadlock between register_kprobe() and ftrace_run_update_code()

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 09:13:04PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:19:52 -0500
> Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Maybe a comment or two would help though.
> > 
> 
> I'm adding the following change.  Care to add a "reviewed-by" for this
> one?
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
> index 33786044d5ac..d7e93b2783fd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@
>  
>  int ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare(void)
>  {
> +	/*
> +	 * Need to grab text_mutex to prevent a race from module loading
> +	 * and live kernel patching from changing the text permissions while
> +	 * ftrace has it set to "read/write".
> +	 */
>  	mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
>  	set_kernel_text_rw();
>  	set_all_modules_text_rw();

For the patch+comment:

Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Josh