On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, Jessica Yu wrote: > Remove the ftrace module notifier in favor of directly calling > ftrace_module_enable() and ftrace_release_mod() in the module loader. > Hard-coding the function calls directly in the module loader removes > dependence on the module notifier call chain and provides better > visibility and control over what gets called when, which is important > to kernel utilities such as livepatch. > > This fixes a notifier ordering issue in which the ftrace module notifier > (and hence ftrace_module_enable()) for coming modules was being called > after klp_module_notify(), which caused livepatch modules to initialize > incorrectly. This patch removes dependence on the module notifier call > chain in favor of hard coding the corresponding function calls in the > module loader. This ensures that ftrace and livepatch code get called in > the correct order on patch module load and unload. > > Fixes: 5156dca34a3e ("ftrace: Fix the race between ftrace and insmod") > Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx> Miroslav -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe live-patching" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html