linux-kernel - [PATCH -rt] fix preempt count underflow in user_trace

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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:03:37 +0100
From:	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH -rt] fix preempt count underflow in user_trace_stop

When playing with trace_user_trigger_irq in order to trace
IRQ->userspace latencies, I encountered a bug in the latency tracer. If
I have wakeup_timing enabled and attempt to stop the trace in my
userspace program, the system crashes. This is caused by an unbalanced
preempt_enable() which underflows the preempt count.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>

diff --git a/kernel/latency_trace.c b/kernel/latency_trace.c
index e07bb95..29dfb79 100644
--- a/kernel/latency_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/latency_trace.c
@@ -2396,7 +2396,6 @@ long user_trace_stop(void)
 		if (current != sch.task) {
 			__raw_spin_unlock(&sch.trace_lock);
 			local_irq_restore(flags);
-			preempt_enable();
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 		sch.task = NULL;


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