From: Srikar Dronamraju Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:45:48 +0000 (+0530) Subject: tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9da79ab83ee33ddc1fdd0858fd3d70925a1bde99;p=linux-beck.git tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex Comment in unregister_trace_probe() says probe_lock will be held when it gets called. However there is a case where it might called without the probe_lock being held. Also since we are traversing the probe_list and deleting an element from the probe_list, probe_lock should be held. This was first pointed in uprobes traceevent review by Frederic Weisbecker here. (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/12/106) Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <20100630084548.GA10325@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c index 1b79d1c15726..8b27c9849b42 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c @@ -925,14 +925,17 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc, char **argv) pr_info("Delete command needs an event name.\n"); return -EINVAL; } + mutex_lock(&probe_lock); tp = find_probe_event(event, group); if (!tp) { + mutex_unlock(&probe_lock); pr_info("Event %s/%s doesn't exist.\n", group, event); return -ENOENT; } /* delete an event */ unregister_trace_probe(tp); free_trace_probe(tp); + mutex_unlock(&probe_lock); return 0; }