linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing/ftrace: add missing unlock in register_stat

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:25:37 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/ftrace: add missing unlock in
 register_stat_tracer()


Ingo, revert this patch (or don't pull it yet)
I just noticed that it does not compile. I should not be doing git pulls 
at night :-(


On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> 
> Ingo,
> 
> The following patch is in:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> 
>     branch: tip/devel
> 
> 
> Li Zefan (1):
>       tracing/ftrace: add missing unlock in register_stat_tracer()
> 
> ----
>  kernel/trace/trace_stat.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> ---------------------------
> commit 6af81ac4701bf80dde4b723f28a777daefdf512c
> Author: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
> Date:   Thu Jan 15 09:30:52 2009 +0800
> 
>     tracing/ftrace: add missing unlock in register_stat_tracer()
>     
>     We should unlock all_stat_sessions_mutex before returning failure.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stat.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stat.c
> index cb29282..8669f3c 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_stat.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stat.c
> @@ -73,8 +73,10 @@ int register_stat_tracer(struct tracer_stat *trace)
>  	/* Already registered? */
>  	mutex_lock(&all_stat_sessions_mutex);
>  	list_for_each_entry_safe(node, tmp, &all_stat_sessions, session_list) {
> -		if (node->ts == trace)
> +		if (node->ts == trace) {
> +			mutex_unlock(all_stat_sessions_mutex);

missing &

-- Steve

>  			return -EINVAL;
> +		}
>  	}
>  	mutex_unlock(&all_stat_sessions_mutex);
>  
> 
> 
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