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Date:	Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:59:08 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] tracing: Cleanups and fixes to syscall tracepoints


Linus,

This includes three patches from Oleg Nesterov. The first is a fix to a
race condition that happens between enabling/disabling syscall tracepoints
and new process creations (the check to go into the ptrace path for a process
can be set when it shouldn't, or not set when it should). Not a major bug
but one that should be fixed and even applied to stable.

The other two patches are cleanup/fixes that are not that critical, but
for an -rc1 release would be nice to have. They both deal with syscall
tracepoints.

I would have included these with my initial pull request, but as Oleg
posted his last version as a reply to the bottom of the patch 1/3
thread, I missed it.

Please pull the latest trace-fixes-v3.16-rc1 tree, which can be found at:


  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git
trace-fixes-v3.16-rc1

Tag SHA1: b6890d3b54aa3ff1aa34afb6c7af367895b9f07a
Head SHA1: 72fa1a896d8ef355e81270667803ceb16a3dd13f


Oleg Nesterov (3):
      tracing: Fix syscall_*regfunc() vs copy_process() race
      tracing: Change syscall_*regfunc() to check PF_KTHREAD and use for_each_process_thread()
      tracing: syscall_regfunc() should not skip kernel threads

----
 include/trace/syscall.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 kernel/fork.c           |  2 ++
 kernel/tracepoint.c     | 26 +++++++++++---------------
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
---------------------------
diff --git a/include/trace/syscall.h b/include/trace/syscall.h
index fed853f3d7aa..291c2824fafb 100644
--- a/include/trace/syscall.h
+++ b/include/trace/syscall.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <linux/tracepoint.h>
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
 #include <linux/ftrace_event.h>
+#include <linux/thread_info.h>
 
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 
@@ -32,4 +33,18 @@ struct syscall_metadata {
 	struct ftrace_event_call *exit_event;
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
+static inline void syscall_tracepoint_update(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT))
+		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT);
+	else
+		clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT);
+}
+#else
+static inline void syscall_tracepoint_update(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _TRACE_SYSCALL_H */
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index d2799d1fc952..6a13c46cd87d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1487,7 +1487,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 
 	total_forks++;
 	spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
+	syscall_tracepoint_update(p);
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+
 	proc_fork_connector(p);
 	cgroup_post_fork(p);
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 33cbd8c203f8..3490407dc7b7 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -492,33 +492,29 @@ static int sys_tracepoint_refcount;
 
 void syscall_regfunc(void)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct task_struct *g, *t;
+	struct task_struct *p, *t;
 
 	if (!sys_tracepoint_refcount) {
-		read_lock_irqsave(&tasklist_lock, flags);
-		do_each_thread(g, t) {
-			/* Skip kernel threads. */
-			if (t->mm)
-				set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT);
-		} while_each_thread(g, t);
-		read_unlock_irqrestore(&tasklist_lock, flags);
+		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+		for_each_process_thread(p, t) {
+			set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT);
+		}
+		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 	}
 	sys_tracepoint_refcount++;
 }
 
 void syscall_unregfunc(void)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct task_struct *g, *t;
+	struct task_struct *p, *t;
 
 	sys_tracepoint_refcount--;
 	if (!sys_tracepoint_refcount) {
-		read_lock_irqsave(&tasklist_lock, flags);
-		do_each_thread(g, t) {
+		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+		for_each_process_thread(p, t) {
 			clear_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT);
-		} while_each_thread(g, t);
-		read_unlock_irqrestore(&tasklist_lock, flags);
+		}
+		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 	}
 }
 #endif
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