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| author | Mark Brown <[email protected]> | 2016-02-09 18:20:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <[email protected]> | 2016-02-09 18:20:39 +0000 |
| commit | fcdcc79628a1919bde9acf239e364f65bab6327c (patch) | |
| tree | 5499be387cf3028c90ac083b1cf866ebed7bf7e0 /arch/ia64/kernel/ftrace.c | |
| parent | 7a8d44bc89e5cddcd5c0704a11a90484d36ba6ba (diff) | |
| parent | a0a90718f18264dc904d34a580f332006f5561e9 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'topic/acpi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi into spi-pxa2xx
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) |