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[v3,17/28] arm64: module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().

Message ID 20250108090457.512198-18-bigeasy@linutronix.de (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series module: Use RCU instead of RCU-sched. | expand

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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Jan. 8, 2025, 9:04 a.m. UTC 
__module_text_address() can be invoked within a RCU section, there is no
requirement to have preemption disabled.

Replace the preempt_disable() section around __module_text_address()
with RCU.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c
index 245cb419ca24d..2b76939b6304f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -257,14 +257,13 @@  static bool ftrace_find_callable_addr(struct dyn_ftrace *rec,
 	 * dealing with an out-of-range condition, we can assume it
 	 * is due to a module being loaded far away from the kernel.
 	 *
-	 * NOTE: __module_text_address() must be called with preemption
-	 * disabled, but we can rely on ftrace_lock to ensure that 'mod'
+	 * NOTE: __module_text_address() must be called within a RCU read
+	 * section, but we can rely on ftrace_lock to ensure that 'mod'
 	 * retains its validity throughout the remainder of this code.
 	 */
 	if (!mod) {
-		preempt_disable();
+		guard(rcu)();
 		mod = __module_text_address(pc);
-		preempt_enable();
 	}
 
 	if (WARN_ON(!mod))