Re: [PATCH] x86/kprobes: remove free_insn_page since it is same with the common weak function

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jun 07 2021 - 04:16:41 EST


On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 04:08:56PM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> free_insn_page() in x86 is same with the common weak function in
> kernel/kprobes.c. Plus, its comment "Recover page to RW mode before
> releasing it" seems insensible to be there since resetting mapping
> is done by common code in vfree() of module_memfree().
> So drop the strong function and its comment in x86 totally.
>
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

It also is the same for s390, so please remove that as well and remove
the __weak.