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authorIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2018-10-02 07:50:34 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2018-10-02 07:50:34 +0000
commit97e831e13015045c098e1187f9b8b8e9bace9413 (patch)
tree26c4a34a290841a140007bf10a45798b8ea49c44 /arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
parentMerge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.20-20180924' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm... (diff)
parentperf/x86/amd/uncore: Set ThreadMask and SliceMask for L3 Cache perf events (diff)
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Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index 850f3b8f4da5..6ae2777c220d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ static int __patch_instruction(unsigned int *exec_addr, unsigned int instr,
{
int err;
+ /* Make sure we aren't patching a freed init section */
+ if (init_mem_is_free && init_section_contains(exec_addr, 4)) {
+ pr_debug("Skipping init section patching addr: 0x%px\n", exec_addr);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
__put_user_size(instr, patch_addr, 4, err);
if (err)
return err;