linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2.6.38-rc8-tip 17/20] 17: uprobes: filter chain

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Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:49:14 -0400
From:	Stephen Wilson <wilsons@...rt.ca>
To:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	SystemTap <systemtap@...rces.redhat.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2.6.38-rc8-tip 17/20] 17: uprobes: filter chain




On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:07:22PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> 
> Loops through the filters callbacks of currently registered
> consumers to see if any consumer is interested in tracing this task.

Should this be part of the series?  It is not currently used.

>  /* Acquires uprobe->consumer_rwsem */
> +static bool filter_chain(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +	struct uprobe_consumer *consumer;
> +	bool ret = false;
> +
> +	down_read(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem);
> +	for (consumer = uprobe->consumers; consumer;
> +					consumer = consumer->next) {
> +		if (!consumer->filter || consumer->filter(consumer, t)) {

The implementation does not seem to match the changelog description.
Should this not be:

                if (consumer->filter && consumer->filter(consumer, t))

  ?

> +			ret = true;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +	}
> +	up_read(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem);
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +

-- 
steve

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