linux-kernel - Re: [tip:tracing/core] tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace

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Date:	Thu, 07 May 2009 15:11:15 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	mingo@...hat.com
CC:	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tzanussi@...il.com,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, fweisbec@...il.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:tracing/core] tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events
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tip-bot for Li Zefan wrote:
> Commit-ID:  20c8928abe70e204bd077ab6cfe23002d7788983
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/20c8928abe70e204bd077ab6cfe23002d7788983
> Author:     Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
> AuthorDate: Wed, 6 May 2009 10:33:45 +0800
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> CommitDate: Wed, 6 May 2009 10:38:19 +0200
> 
> tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events list
> 

There is a deadlock in this patch, and I sent out a v2 patch and
expected it to be applied:
	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/6/26

Below is a fix on top of this patch. Sorry for my carelessness.

=========

From: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing/events: fix deadlock on event_mutex

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 <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 8c62e5b..85ad6a8 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;
 }
 
-- 
1.5.4.rc3




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