This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ftrace/x86: One more missing sync after fixup of function modification failure to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ftrace-x86-one-more-missing-sync-after-fixup-of-function-modification-failure.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 12729f14d8357fb845d75155228b21e76360272d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:12:20 +0100 Subject: ftrace/x86: One more missing sync after fixup of function modification failure From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx> commit 12729f14d8357fb845d75155228b21e76360272d upstream. If a failure occurs while modifying ftrace function, it bails out and will remove the tracepoints to be back to what the code originally was. There is missing the final sync run across the CPUs after the fix up is done and before the ftrace int3 handler flag is reset. Here's the description of the problem: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- remove_breakpoint(); modifying_ftrace_code = 0; [still sees breakpoint] <takes trap> [sees modifying_ftrace_code as zero] [no breakpoint handler] [goto failed case] [trap exception - kernel breakpoint, no handler] BUG() Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393258342-29978-2-git-send-email-pmladek@xxxxxxx Fixes: 8a4d0a687a5 "ftrace: Use breakpoint method to update ftrace caller" Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c @@ -659,8 +659,8 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, uns ret = -EPERM; goto out; } - run_sync(); out: + run_sync(); return ret; fail_update: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pmladek@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ftrace-x86-one-more-missing-sync-after-fixup-of-function-modification-failure.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html