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    kprobes/ftrace: Add recursion protection to the ftrace callback · c536aa1c
    Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
    If a ftrace callback does not supply its own recursion protection and
    does not set the RECURSION_SAFE flag in its ftrace_ops, then ftrace will
    make a helper trampoline to do so before calling the callback instead of
    just calling the callback directly.
    
    The default for ftrace_ops is going to change. It will expect that handlers
    provide their own recursion protection, unless its ftrace_ops states
    otherwise.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201028115613.140212174@goodmis.org
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106023546.944907560@goodmis.org
    
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: Josh  Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
    Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
    Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
    Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
    Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: x86@kernel.org
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
    Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
    Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
    Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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