The text patching functions which are invoked from jump_label and kprobes code are protected against cpu hotplug at the call sites.
Use stop_machine_cpuslocked() to avoid recursion on the cpu hotplug rwsem. stop_machine_cpuslocked() contains a lockdep assertion to catch any unprotected callers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> --- arch/arm/kernel/patch.c | 2 +- arch/arm/probes/kprobes/core.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c @@ -124,5 +124,5 @@ void __kprobes patch_text(void *addr, un .insn = insn, }; - stop_machine(patch_text_stop_machine, &patch, NULL); + stop_machine_cpuslocked(patch_text_stop_machine, &patch, NULL); } --- a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/core.c +++ b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/core.c @@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ void __kprobes kprobes_remove_breakpoint .addr = addr, .insn = insn, }; - stop_machine(__kprobes_remove_breakpoint, &p, cpu_online_mask); + stop_machine_cpuslocked(__kprobes_remove_breakpoint, &p, + cpu_online_mask); } void __kprobes arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
