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ftrace: Synchronize the initialization of ftrace_opsgrafted
There's some internal state that ftrace_ops needs to have set, but since it can be declared outside of the ftrace.c code, it calls ftrace_ops_init() on the ops in every global function. The issue is that if two tasks call it on the same ops at the same time it is possible to have the initialization of one corrupt the initialization of the other call. Create a ops_mutex to use to synchronize every initialization of the ftrace_ops. The mutex is taken within checking the ftrace_ops flag that states it was initializied but the flag is checked again after the mutex has been taken. Checking first outside the mutex allows it to shortcut having to take the mutex. But then the check needs to be done again after the mute is taken in case of races. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260902095501.6b59af20@gandalf.local.home Fixes: f04f24fb7e48d ("ftrace, kprobes: Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock") Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org Close: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260829025528.49A831F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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+=================================================
+The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
+=================================================
+
+The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
+added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or
+organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent
+document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
+
+General guides to kernel administration
+---------------------------------------
+
+This initial section contains overall information, including the README
+file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
+etc.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ README
+ devices
+
+ features
+
+A big part of the kernel's administrative interface is the /proc and sysfs
+virtual filesystems; these documents describe how to interact with tem
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ sysfs-rules
+ sysctl/index
+ cputopology
+ abi
+
+Security-related documentation:
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ hw-vuln/index
+ LSM/index
+ perf-security
+
+Booting the kernel
+------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ bootconfig
+ kernel-parameters
+ efi-stub
+ initrd
+
+
+Tracking down and identifying problems
+--------------------------------------
+
+Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
+problems and bugs in particular.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ reporting-issues
+ reporting-regressions
+ quickly-build-trimmed-linux
+ verify-bugs-and-bisect-regressions
+ bug-hunting
+ bug-bisect
+ tainted-kernels
+ ramoops
+ dynamic-debug-howto
+ init
+ kdump/index
+ perf/index
+ pstore-blk
+ clearing-warn-once
+ kernel-per-CPU-kthreads
+ lockup-watchdogs
+ RAS/index
+ sysrq
+
+
+Core-kernel subsystems
+----------------------
+
+These documents describe core-kernel administration interfaces that are
+likely to be of interest on almost any system.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ cgroup-v2
+ cgroup-v1/index
+ cpu-isolation
+ cpu-load
+ mm/index
+ module-signing
+ namespaces/index
+ numastat
+ pm/index
+ syscall-user-dispatch
+
+Support for non-native binary formats. Note that some of these
+documents are ... old ...
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ binfmt-misc
+ java
+ mono
+
+
+Block-layer and filesystem administration
+-----------------------------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ bcache
+ binderfs
+ blockdev/index
+ cifs/index
+ device-mapper/index
+ ext4
+ filesystem-monitoring
+ nfs/index
+ iostats
+ jfs
+ md
+ ufs
+ xfs
+
+Device-specific guides
+----------------------
+
+How to configure your hardware within your Linux system.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ acpi/index
+ aoe/index
+ auxdisplay/index
+ braille-console
+ btmrvl
+ dell_rbu
+ edid
+ gpio/index
+ hw_random
+ laptops/index
+ lcd-panel-cgram
+ media/index
+ nvme-multipath
+ parport
+ pnp
+ rapidio
+ rtc
+ serial-console
+ svga
+ thermal/index
+ thunderbolt
+ vga-softcursor
+ video-output
+
+Workload analysis
+-----------------
+
+This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
+application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the
+Linux kernel for safety critical applications. Documents supporting
+analysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernel
+subsystems expectations will be found here.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ workload-tracing
+
+Everything else
+---------------
+
+A few hard-to-categorize and generally obsolete documents.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ ldm
+ unicode