Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix preempt count leak

From: Li Zefan
Date: Mon Dec 20 2010 - 19:56:15 EST


Any comment?

15:47, Li Zefan wrote:
> While running my ftrace stress test, this showed up:
>
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/mmap.c:233
> ...
> note: cat[3293] exited with preempt_count 1
>
> The bug was introduced by commit 91e86e560d0b3ce4c5fc64fd2bbb99f856a30a4e
> ("tracing: Fix recursive user stack trace")
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 ++----
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index c380612..5767457 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -1313,12 +1313,10 @@ ftrace_trace_userstack(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long flags, int pc)
>
> __this_cpu_inc(user_stack_count);
>
> -
> -
> event = trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_USER_STACK,
> sizeof(*entry), flags, pc);
> if (!event)
> - return;
> + goto out_drop_count;
> entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
>
> entry->tgid = current->tgid;
> @@ -1333,8 +1331,8 @@ ftrace_trace_userstack(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long flags, int pc)
> if (!filter_check_discard(call, entry, buffer, event))
> ring_buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
>
> + out_drop_count:
> __this_cpu_dec(user_stack_count);
> -
> out:
> preempt_enable();
> }
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