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| author |   bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> | 2006-10-02 02:17:35 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-02 07:57:16 -0700 |
| commit | 99219a3fbc2dcf2eaa954f7b2ac27299fd7894cd (patch) | |
| tree | 895abde156c9fbeea9c5a87cfaaa411d4ad175c6 /arch/powerpc | |
| parent | [PATCH] disallow kprobes on notifier_call_chain (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-99219a3fbc2dcf2eaa954f7b2ac27299fd7894cd.tar.xz linux-dev-99219a3fbc2dcf2eaa954f7b2ac27299fd7894cd.zip | |
[PATCH] kretprobe spinlock deadlock patch
kprobe_flush_task() possibly calls kfree function during holding
kretprobe_lock spinlock, if kfree function is probed by kretprobe that will
incur spinlock deadlock. This patch moves kfree function out scope of
kretprobe_lock.
Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c index 46d2fd0e5789..7b8d12b9026c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -260,11 +260,12 @@ void kretprobe_trampoline_holder(void) int __kprobes trampoline_probe_handler(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs) { struct kretprobe_instance *ri = NULL; - struct hlist_head *head; + struct hlist_head *head, empty_rp; struct hlist_node *node, *tmp; unsigned long flags, orig_ret_address = 0; unsigned long trampoline_address =(unsigned long)&kretprobe_trampoline; + INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&empty_rp); spin_lock_irqsave(&kretprobe_lock, flags); head = kretprobe_inst_table_head(current); @@ -290,7 +291,7 @@ int __kprobes trampoline_probe_handler(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs) ri->rp->handler(ri, regs); orig_ret_address = (unsigned long)ri->ret_addr; - recycle_rp_inst(ri); + recycle_rp_inst(ri, &empty_rp); if (orig_ret_address != trampoline_address) /* @@ -308,6 +309,10 @@ int __kprobes trampoline_probe_handler(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kretprobe_lock, flags); preempt_enable_no_resched(); + hlist_for_each_entry_safe(ri, node, tmp, &empty_rp, hlist) { + hlist_del(&ri->hlist); + kfree(ri); + } /* * By returning a non-zero value, we are telling * kprobe_handler() that we don't want the post_handler |