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

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:52:32 +0200
Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri 2019-06-28 09:32:03, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Petr Mladek wrote:  
> > > @@ -2611,12 +2610,10 @@ static void ftrace_run_update_code(int command)
> > >  {
> > >  	int ret;
> > >  
> > > -	mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
> > > -
> > >  	ret = ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare();
> > >  	FTRACE_WARN_ON(ret);
> > >  	if (ret)
> > > -		goto out_unlock;
> > > +		return ret;  
> > 
> > Should be just "return;", because the function is "static void".  
> 
> Grr, I usually check compiler warnings but I evidently skipped it
> in this case :-(
> 
> Steven, should I send a fixed/folloup patch or will you just
> fix it when pushing?
> 

I'll fix it up.

-- Steve