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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-01-13 00:21:27 -0500 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-01-13 00:21:27 -0500 |
| commit | ddb5388ffd0ad75d07e7b78181a0b579824ba6f0 (patch) | |
| tree | be1e2bd103c69d7bbace3fffd97bc3d714bbc3d7 /arch/ia64/kernel/ftrace.c | |
| parent | ccdf6ce6a8dba374668ae9b4d763e19903611c38 (diff) | |
| parent | 67990608c8b95d2b8ccc29932376ae73d5818727 (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/kernel/ftrace.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/ftrace.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/ftrace.c index 3b0c2aa07857..cee411e647ca 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ftrace.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/ftrace.c @@ -97,13 +97,11 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code, unsigned char replaced[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE]; /* - * Note: Due to modules and __init, code can - * disappear and change, we need to protect against faulting - * as well as code changing. We do this by using the - * probe_kernel_* functions. - * - * No real locking needed, this code is run through - * kstop_machine, or before SMP starts. + * Note: + * We are paranoid about modifying text, as if a bug was to happen, it + * could cause us to read or write to someplace that could cause harm. + * Carefully read and modify the code with probe_kernel_*(), and make + * sure what we read is what we expected it to be before modifying it. */ if (!do_check) |