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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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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==============================================
+Netdev private dataroom for 6lowpan interfaces
+==============================================
+
+All 6lowpan able net devices, means all interfaces with ARPHRD_6LOWPAN,
+must have "struct lowpan_priv" placed at beginning of netdev_priv.
+
+The priv_size of each interface should be calculate by::
+
+ dev->priv_size = LOWPAN_PRIV_SIZE(LL_6LOWPAN_PRIV_DATA);
+
+Where LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA is sizeof linklayer 6lowpan private data struct.
+To access the LL_PRIV_6LOWPAN_DATA structure you can cast::
+
+ lowpan_priv(dev)-priv;
+
+to your LL_6LOWPAN_PRIV_DATA structure.
+
+Before registering the lowpan netdev interface you must run::
+
+ lowpan_netdev_setup(dev, LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR);
+
+wheres LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR is a define for your 6LoWPAN linklayer type of
+enum lowpan_lltypes.
+
+Example to evaluate the private usually you can do::
+
+ static inline struct lowpan_priv_foobar *
+ lowpan_foobar_priv(struct net_device *dev)
+ {
+ return (struct lowpan_priv_foobar *)lowpan_priv(dev)->priv;
+ }
+
+ switch (dev->type) {
+ case ARPHRD_6LOWPAN:
+ lowpan_priv = lowpan_priv(dev);
+ /* do great stuff which is ARPHRD_6LOWPAN related */
+ switch (lowpan_priv->lltype) {
+ case LOWPAN_LLTYPE_FOOBAR:
+ /* do 802.15.4 6LoWPAN handling here */
+ lowpan_foobar_priv(dev)->bar = foo;
+ break;
+ ...
+ }
+ break;
+ ...
+ }
+
+In case of generic 6lowpan branch ("net/6lowpan") you can remove the check
+on ARPHRD_6LOWPAN, because you can be sure that these function are called
+by ARPHRD_6LOWPAN interfaces.