kprobes: Document how optimized kprobes are removed from module unload
Thomas discovered a bug where the kprobe trace tests had a race condition where the kprobe_optimizer called from a delayed work queue that does the optimizing and "unoptimizing" of a kprobe, can try to modify the text after it has been freed by the init code. The kprobe trace selftest is a special case, and Thomas and myself investigated to see if there's a chance that this could also be a bug with module unloading, as the code is not obvious to how it handles this. After adding lots of printks, I figured it out. Thomas suggested that this should be commented so that others will not have to go through this exercise again. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170516145835.3827d3aa@gandalf.local.homeAcked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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