From: Li Zefan Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 07:11:15 +0000 (+0800) Subject: tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events list, fix X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d94fc523f3c35bd8013f04827e94756cbc0212f4;p=linux-beck.git tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events list, fix In filter_add_subsystem_pred() we should release event_mutex before calling filter_free_subsystem_preds(), since both functions hold event_mutex. [ Impact: fix deadlock when writing invalid pred into subsystem filter ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Cc: tzanussi@gmail.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <4A028993.7020509@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c index 8c62e5bdff09..85ad6a8939ad 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c @@ -636,14 +636,15 @@ static int filter_add_subsystem_pred(struct filter_parse_state *ps, err = filter_add_pred(ps, call, pred); if (err) { + mutex_unlock(&event_mutex); filter_free_subsystem_preds(system); parse_error(ps, FILT_ERR_BAD_SUBSYS_FILTER, 0); - break; + goto out; } replace_filter_string(call->filter, filter_string); } mutex_unlock(&event_mutex); - +out: return err; }