[tip:tracing/urgent] ftrace: Fix unmatched locking in ftrace_regex_write()

From: tip-bot for Li Zefan
Date: Wed Nov 04 2009 - 06:10:35 EST


Commit-ID: ed146b25942b428f8e8056587b7638ce76573c2f
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ed146b25942b428f8e8056587b7638ce76573c2f
Author: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:55:38 +0800
Committer: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:42:10 -0500

ftrace: Fix unmatched locking in ftrace_regex_write()

When a command is passed to the set_ftrace_filter, then
the ftrace_regex_lock is still held going back to user space.

# echo 'do_open : foo' > set_ftrace_filter
(still holding ftrace_regex_lock when returning to user space!)

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <4AEF7F8A.3080300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 9c451a1..6dc4e5e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2222,15 +2222,15 @@ ftrace_regex_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
ret = ftrace_process_regex(parser->buffer,
parser->idx, enable);
if (ret)
- goto out;
+ goto out_unlock;

trace_parser_clear(parser);
}

ret = read;
-
+out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&ftrace_regex_lock);
-out:
+
return ret;
}

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