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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c index 33786044d5ac..d7e93b2783fd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ int ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare(void) { + /* + * Need to grab text_mutex to prevent a race from module loading + * and live kernel patching from changing the text permissions while + * ftrace has it set to "read/write". + */ mutex_lock(&text_mutex); set_kernel_text_rw(); set_all_modules_text_rw(); |