From b01c746617da5e260803eb10ed64ca043e9a1241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:37:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tracing/function-return-tracer: add a barrier to ensure return stack index is incremented in memory Impact: fix possible race condition in ftrace function return tracer This fixes a possible race condition if index incrementation is not immediately flushed in memory. Thanks for Andi Kleen and Steven Rostedt for pointing out this issue and give me this solution. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c index 762222ad1387..d98b5a8ecf4c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ static int push_return_trace(unsigned long ret, unsigned long long time, return -EBUSY; index = ++ti->curr_ret_stack; + barrier(); ti->ret_stack[index].ret = ret; ti->ret_stack[index].func = func; ti->ret_stack[index].calltime = time; -- 2.39.5