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    ftrace: Call ftrace cleanup module notifier after all other notifiers · 8c189ea6
    Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
    Commit: c1bf08ac
    
     "ftrace: Be first to run code modification on modules"
    
    changed ftrace module notifier's priority to INT_MAX in order to
    process the ftrace nops before anything else could touch them
    (namely kprobes). This was the correct thing to do.
    
    Unfortunately, the ftrace module notifier also contains the ftrace
    clean up code. As opposed to the set up code, this code should be
    run *after* all the module notifiers have run in case a module is doing
    correct clean-up and unregisters its ftrace hooks. Basically, ftrace
    needs to do clean up on module removal, as it needs to know about code
    being removed so that it doesn't try to modify that code. But after it
    removes the module from its records, if a ftrace user tries to remove
    a probe, that removal will fail due as the record of that code segment
    no longer exists.
    
    Nothing really bad happens if the probe removal is called after ftrace
    did the clean up, but the ftrace removal function will return an error.
    Correct code (such as kprobes) will produce a WARN_ON() if it fails
    to remove the probe. As people get annoyed by frivolous warnings, it's
    best to do the ftrace clean up after everything else.
    
    By splitting the ftrace_module_notifier into two notifiers, one that
    does the module load setup that is run at high priority, and the other
    that is called for module clean up that is run at low priority, the
    problem is solved.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Reported-by: default avatarFrank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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