-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli upstream commit: f02b8624fedca39886b0eef770dca70c2f0749b3 Fix locking imbalance in kretprobes: ===================================== [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ] ------------------------------------- kthreadd/2 is trying to release lock (&rp->lock) at: [] pre_handler_kretprobe+0xea/0xf4 but there are no more locks to release! other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by kthreadd/2: #0: (rcu_read_lock){..--}, at: [] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x5a stack backtrace: Pid: 2, comm: kthreadd Not tainted 2.6.29-rc8 #1 Call Trace: [] ? printk+0xf/0x17 [] ? pre_handler_kretprobe+0xea/0xf4 [] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xc3/0xce [] ? clocksource_read+0x7/0xa [] ? getnstimeofday+0x5f/0xf6 [] ? register_lock_class+0x17/0x293 [] ? mark_lock+0x1e/0x30b [] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x4a/0xbc [] ? __slab_alloc+0xa5/0x415 [] ? pre_handler_kretprobe+0x28/0xf4 [] ? pre_handler_kretprobe+0xea/0xf4 [] lock_release_non_nested+0xa4/0x1a5 [] ? pre_handler_kretprobe+0xea/0xf4 [] lock_release+0x141/0x166 [] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x50 [] pre_handler_kretprobe+0xea/0xf4 [] kprobe_exceptions_notify+0x1c9/0x43e [] notifier_call_chain+0x26/0x48 [] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x37/0x5a [] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x5a [] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xc/0xe [] notify_die+0x2d/0x2f [] do_int3+0x1f/0x71 [] int3+0x2c/0x34 [] ? do_fork+0x1/0x288 [] ? kernel_thread+0x71/0x79 [] ? kthread+0x0/0x60 [] ? kthread+0x0/0x60 [] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 [] kthreadd+0xac/0x148 [] ? kthreadd+0x0/0x148 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Tested-by: Bharata B Rao Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Jim Keniston Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: LKML-Reference: <20090318113621.GB4129@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- kernel/kprobes.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -912,10 +912,8 @@ static int __kprobes pre_handler_kretpro ri->rp = rp; ri->task = current; - if (rp->entry_handler && rp->entry_handler(ri, regs)) { - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rp->lock, flags); + if (rp->entry_handler && rp->entry_handler(ri, regs)) return 0; - } arch_prepare_kretprobe(ri, regs); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/