linux-kernel - [74/80] tracing: fix event

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Date:	Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:07:34 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [74/80] tracing: fix event_subsystem ref counting

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>

commit cb59974742aea24adf6637eb0c4b8e7b48bca6fb upstream.

Fix a bug introduced by e9dbfae5, which prevents event_subsystem from
ever being released.

Ref_count was added to keep track of subsystem users, not for counting
events.  Subsystem is created with ref_count = 1, so there is no need to
increment it for every event, we have nr_events for that.  Fix this by
touching ref_count only when we actually have a new user -
subsystem_open().

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320052062-7846-1-git-send-email-idryomov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 kernel/trace/trace_events.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -1096,7 +1096,6 @@ event_subsystem_dir(const char *name, st
 	/* First see if we did not already create this dir */
 	list_for_each_entry(system, &event_subsystems, list) {
 		if (strcmp(system->name, name) == 0) {
-			__get_system(system);
 			system->nr_events++;
 			return system->entry;
 		}


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