Re: [PATCH 5/7] uprobes: Introduce filter_chain()

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 11/23, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Change install_breakpoint() to call filter_chain() instead of checking
> uprobe->consumers != NULL. We obviously need this, and this equally
> closes the race with _unregister().
>
> Change remove_breakpoint() to call this helper too. Currently this is
> pointless because remove_breakpoint() is only called when the last
> consumer goes away, but we will change this.

Just in case...

This is only to make the initial change as simple as possible. filter_chain()
will have more arguments and more callers, say, perhaps build_map_info().
And perhaps these 2 callsites should be moved from install/remove to the
caller later.

Oleg.

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