Re: git pull request for tip/tracing/urgent

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Ingo,
> 
> The bug that is fixed by this change can affect users. Most likely it will 
> not, since the fault should never happen. But this is a protective 
> mechanism, where if it does, that means there is a bug in the tracer.
> 
> As you have previously told me, a bug in the tracer should never crash the 
> kernel. Since the detection of a fault in the function graph tracer can 
> lead to a kernel crash (without this change) I think this qualifies as 
> something for 29.

Yeah, definitely so.

> -- Steve
> 
> 
> The following patch is in:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> 
>     branch: tip/tracing/urgent
> 
> 
> Steven Rostedt (1):
>       tracing, x86: fix fixup section to return to original code
> 
> ----
>  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c |    8 +++++---
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Pulled into tip:tracing/urgent, thanks Steve!

	Ingo
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