Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing/uprobes: Fix the usage of uprobe_buffer_enable() in probe_event_enable()

From: Srikar Dronamraju
Date: Mon Jun 30 2014 - 13:04:19 EST


> The usage of uprobe_buffer_enable() added by dcad1a20 is very wrong,
>
> 1. uprobe_buffer_enable() and uprobe_buffer_disable() are not balanced,
> _enable() should be called only if !enabled.
>
> 2. If uprobe_buffer_enable() fails probe_event_enable() should clear
> tp.flags and free event_file_link.
>
> 3. If uprobe_register() fails it should do uprobe_buffer_disable().
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(one nit .. )

> + ret = uprobe_buffer_enable();
> + if (ret)
> + goto err_flags;
> +
> tu->consumer.filter = filter;
> ret = uprobe_register(tu->inode, tu->offset, &tu->consumer);
> - if (ret) {
> - if (file) {
> - list_del(&link->list);
> - kfree(link);
> - tu->tp.flags &= ~TP_FLAG_TRACE;
> - } else
> - tu->tp.flags &= ~TP_FLAG_PROFILE;
> - }
> + if (ret)
> + goto err_buffer;
>
> + return 0;
> +
> + err_buffer:
> + uprobe_buffer_disable();
> +

How about avoiding err_buffer label?
+ if (!ret)
+ return 0;

+ uprobe_buffer_disable();
+


> + err_flags:
> + if (file) {
> + list_del(&link->list);
>
> --
> 1.5.5.1
>

--
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju

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