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-rw-r--r--arch/metag/kernel/ftrace.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/metag/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/metag/kernel/ftrace.c
index ed1d685157c2..ac8c039b0318 100644
--- a/arch/metag/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/metag/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -54,12 +54,11 @@ static int ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long pc, unsigned char *old_code,
unsigned char replaced[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE];
/*
- * Note: Due to modules and __init, code can
- * disappear and change, we need to protect against faulting
- * as well as code changing.
- *
- * No real locking needed, this code is run through
- * kstop_machine.
+ * Note:
+ * We are paranoid about modifying text, as if a bug was to happen, it
+ * could cause us to read or write to someplace that could cause harm.
+ * Carefully read and modify the code with probe_kernel_*(), and make
+ * sure what we read is what we expected it to be before modifying it.
*/
/* read the text we want to modify */