[PATCH] riscv: ftrace: no need to acquire text_mutex when executed in stop_machine

From: Changbin Du
Date: Wed Mar 09 2022 - 23:55:11 EST


It's safe to patch text segment in stop_machine. No race is possible here.
Besides, there is a false positive for the lock assertion in
patch_insn_write() since the lock is not held by cpu migration thread.

So we actually don't need our ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare/post(). And
the lock assertion in patch_insn_write() should be removed to avoid
producing lots of false positive warnings.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c | 16 ++--------------
arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c | 12 +++++-------
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c
index 4716f4cdc038..381ecdae4ea5 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -12,18 +12,6 @@
#include <asm/patch.h>

#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-int ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare(void) __acquires(&text_mutex)
-{
- mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
- return 0;
-}
-
-int ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process(void) __releases(&text_mutex)
-{
- mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
- return 0;
-}
-
static int ftrace_check_current_call(unsigned long hook_pos,
unsigned int *expected)
{
@@ -136,9 +124,9 @@ int ftrace_init_nop(struct module *mod, struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
{
int out;

- ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare();
+ mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
out = ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, MCOUNT_ADDR);
- ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process();
+ mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);

return out;
}
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
index 0b552873a577..b7c5dea70924 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
@@ -49,19 +49,17 @@ static void patch_unmap(int fixmap)
}
NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(patch_unmap);

+/*
+ * Before reaching here, unless executed by stop_machine, it was
+ * expected to lock the text_mutex already which could ensure that
+ * it was safe between each cores.
+ */
static int patch_insn_write(void *addr, const void *insn, size_t len)
{
void *waddr = addr;
bool across_pages = (((uintptr_t) addr & ~PAGE_MASK) + len) > PAGE_SIZE;
int ret;

- /*
- * Before reaching here, it was expected to lock the text_mutex
- * already, so we don't need to give another lock here and could
- * ensure that it was safe between each cores.
- */
- lockdep_assert_held(&text_mutex);
-
if (across_pages)
patch_map(addr + len, FIX_TEXT_POKE1);

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