uprobes/tracing: Fully initialize uprobe_trace_consumer before uprobe_register()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:36:24 +0000 (18:36 +0100)
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:10:19 +0000 (18:10 +0100)
probe_event_enable() does uprobe_register() and only after that sets
utc->tu and tu->consumer/flags. This can race with uprobe_dispatcher()
which can miss these assignments or see them out of order. Nothing
really bad can happen, but this doesn't look clean/safe.

And this does not allow to use uprobe_consumer->filter() we are going
to add, it is called by uprobe_register() and it needs utc->tu.

Change this code to initialize everything before uprobe_register(), and
reset tu->consumer/flags if it fails. We can't race with event_disable(),
the caller holds event_mutex, and if we could the code would be wrong
anyway.

In fact I think uprobe_trace_consumer should die, it buys nothing but
complicates the code. We can simply add uprobe_consumer into trace_uprobe.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c

index 06c22ba..15b8ece 100644 (file)
@@ -552,17 +552,18 @@ static int probe_event_enable(struct trace_uprobe *tu, int flag)
                return -EINTR;
 
        utc->cons.handler = uprobe_dispatcher;
+       utc->tu = tu;
+       tu->consumer = utc;
+       tu->flags |= flag;
+
        ret = uprobe_register(tu->inode, tu->offset, &utc->cons);
        if (ret) {
+               tu->consumer = NULL;
+               tu->flags &= ~flag;
                kfree(utc);
-               return ret;
        }
 
-       tu->flags |= flag;
-       utc->tu = tu;
-       tu->consumer = utc;
-
-       return 0;
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static void probe_event_disable(struct trace_uprobe *tu, int flag)