summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/kernel/trace
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2013-07-02 14:48:23 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-07-25 14:07:43 -0700
commit68cebd265c91873277cf100e7ac1d047c6598ddf (patch)
tree40e9d76980fa3df077908b1401fec8e4d97e7cec /kernel/trace
parent6492334c86dfb441af456337dc3217c2a430f141 (diff)
downloadlinux-stable-68cebd265c91873277cf100e7ac1d047c6598ddf.tar.gz
linux-stable-68cebd265c91873277cf100e7ac1d047c6598ddf.tar.bz2
linux-stable-68cebd265c91873277cf100e7ac1d047c6598ddf.zip
tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
commit 2a6c24afab70dbcfee49f4c76e1511eec1a3298b upstream. While analyzing the code, I discovered that there's a potential race between deleting a trace instance and setting events. There are a few races that can occur if events are being traced as the buffer is being deleted. Mostly the problem comes with freeing the descriptor used by the trace event callback. To prevent problems like this, the events are disabled before the buffer is deleted. The problem with the current solution is that the event_mutex is let go between disabling the events and freeing the files, which means that the events could be enabled again while the freeing takes place. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_events.c23
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index f82d92dbd614..32b9895af239 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -415,14 +415,14 @@ static void put_system(struct ftrace_subsystem_dir *dir)
/*
* __ftrace_set_clr_event(NULL, NULL, NULL, set) will set/unset all events.
*/
-static int __ftrace_set_clr_event(struct trace_array *tr, const char *match,
- const char *sub, const char *event, int set)
+static int
+__ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock(struct trace_array *tr, const char *match,
+ const char *sub, const char *event, int set)
{
struct ftrace_event_file *file;
struct ftrace_event_call *call;
int ret = -EINVAL;
- mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
list_for_each_entry(file, &tr->events, list) {
call = file->event_call;
@@ -448,6 +448,17 @@ static int __ftrace_set_clr_event(struct trace_array *tr, const char *match,
ret = 0;
}
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static int __ftrace_set_clr_event(struct trace_array *tr, const char *match,
+ const char *sub, const char *event, int set)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
+ ret = __ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock(tr, match, sub, event, set);
mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
return ret;
@@ -2367,11 +2378,11 @@ early_event_add_tracer(struct dentry *parent, struct trace_array *tr)
int event_trace_del_tracer(struct trace_array *tr)
{
- /* Disable any running events */
- __ftrace_set_clr_event(tr, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0);
-
mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
+ /* Disable any running events */
+ __ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock(tr, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0);
+
down_write(&trace_event_sem);
__trace_remove_event_dirs(tr);
debugfs_remove_recursive(tr->event_dir);