linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/8] tracing: Fix initialization failure path in tracing_set

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Date:	Mon,  9 Jul 2012 17:10:39 -0700
From:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>, arve@...roid.com,
	Rebecca Schultz Zavin <rebecca@...roid.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH 1/8] tracing: Fix initialization failure path in tracing_set_tracer()

If tracer->init() fails, current code will leave current_tracer pointing
to an unusable tracer, which at best makes 'current_tracer' report
inaccurate value.

Fix the issue by pointing current_tracer to nop tracer, and only update
current_tracer with the new one after all the initialization succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 814ff30..954f7d7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3183,10 +3183,10 @@ static int tracing_set_tracer(const char *buf)
 	}
 	destroy_trace_option_files(topts);
 
-	current_trace = t;
+	current_trace = &nop_trace;
 
-	topts = create_trace_option_files(current_trace);
-	if (current_trace->use_max_tr) {
+	topts = create_trace_option_files(t);
+	if (t->use_max_tr) {
 		int cpu;
 		/* we need to make per cpu buffer sizes equivalent */
 		for_each_tracing_cpu(cpu) {
@@ -3206,6 +3206,7 @@ static int tracing_set_tracer(const char *buf)
 			goto out;
 	}
 
+	current_trace = t;
 	trace_branch_enable(tr);
  out:
 	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
-- 
1.7.10.4

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