[PATCH 19/24] ftrace: Fix trace_add_event_call() to initialize list

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Tue Sep 22 2009 - 15:39:33 EST


From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Handle failure path in trace_add_event_call() to fix the below bug
which occurred when I tried to add invalid event twice.

Could not create debugfs 'kmalloc' directory
Failed to register kprobe event: kmalloc
Faild to register probe event(-1)
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /home/mhiramat/ksrc/random-tracing/lib/list_debug.c:26
__list_add+0x27/0x5c()
Hardware name:
list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (c07d78cc), but was
00001000. (next=d854236c).
Modules linked in: sunrpc uinput virtio_net virtio_balloon i2c_piix4 pcspkr
i2c_core virtio_blk virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio [last unloaded:
scsi_wait_scan]
Pid: 1394, comm: tee Not tainted 2.6.31-rc9 #51
Call Trace:
[<c0438424>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7c
[<c05371b3>] ? __list_add+0x27/0x5c
[<c043846f>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x24/0x27
[<c05371b3>] __list_add+0x27/0x5c
[<c047f050>] list_add+0xa/0xc
[<c047f8f5>] trace_add_event_call+0x60/0x97
[<c0483133>] command_trace_probe+0x42c/0x51b
[<c044a1b3>] ? remove_wait_queue+0x22/0x27
[<c042a9c0>] ? __wake_up+0x32/0x3b
[<c04832f6>] probes_write+0xd4/0x10a
[<c0483222>] ? probes_write+0x0/0x10a
[<c04b27a9>] vfs_write+0x80/0xdf
[<c04b289c>] sys_write+0x3b/0x5d
[<c0670d41>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
---[ end trace 2b962b5dc1fdc07d ]---

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <4AB1077F.6020107@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index ba34920..83cc2c0 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -1010,9 +1010,12 @@ static int __trace_add_event_call(struct ftrace_event_call *call)
return -ENOENT;

list_add(&call->list, &ftrace_events);
- return event_create_dir(call, d_events, &ftrace_event_id_fops,
+ ret = event_create_dir(call, d_events, &ftrace_event_id_fops,
&ftrace_enable_fops, &ftrace_event_filter_fops,
&ftrace_event_format_fops);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ list_del(&call->list);
+ return ret;
}

/* Add an additional event_call dynamically */
--
1.6.2.3

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