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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2017-06-27 07:24:49 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2017-06-27 08:28:30 +1000
commit6d61e70ccc21606ffb8a0a03bd3aba24f659502b (patch)
tree69f5bfb29d085cc42839445d34170bd3ee4f7408 /kernel/livepatch/patch.c
parent338ffbf7cb5eee0ed4600650d03cd2d7cd1cac9d (diff)
parentc0bc126f97fb929b3ae02c1c62322645d70eb408 (diff)
Backmerge tag 'v4.12-rc7' into drm-next
Linux 4.12-rc7 Needed at least rc6 for drm-misc-next-fixes, may as well go to rc7
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/livepatch/patch.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/livepatch/patch.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/patch.c b/kernel/livepatch/patch.c
index f8269036bf0b..52c4e907c14b 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/patch.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/patch.c
@@ -59,7 +59,11 @@ static void notrace klp_ftrace_handler(unsigned long ip,
ops = container_of(fops, struct klp_ops, fops);
- rcu_read_lock();
+ /*
+ * A variant of synchronize_sched() is used to allow patching functions
+ * where RCU is not watching, see klp_synchronize_transition().
+ */
+ preempt_disable_notrace();
func = list_first_or_null_rcu(&ops->func_stack, struct klp_func,
stack_node);
@@ -115,7 +119,7 @@ static void notrace klp_ftrace_handler(unsigned long ip,
klp_arch_set_pc(regs, (unsigned long)func->new_func);
unlock:
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ preempt_enable_notrace();
}
/*