Re: [PATCH v2] tracing/kprobes: Fix trace_probe flags on enable_trace_kprobe() failure

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:20:38 +0200
Artem Savkov <asavkov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If enable_trace_kprobe fails to enable the probe in enable_k(ret)probe
> it returns an error, but does not unset the tp flags it set previously.
> This results in a probe being considered enabled and failures like being
> unable to remove the probe through kprobe_events file since probes_open()
> expects every probe to be disabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Masami,

Can you ack this?

Thanks!

-- Steve

> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 13 +++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
> index 21f718472942..27ace4513c43 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
> @@ -400,11 +400,10 @@ static struct trace_kprobe *find_trace_kprobe(const char *event,
>  static int
>  enable_trace_kprobe(struct trace_kprobe *tk, struct trace_event_file *file)
>  {
> +	struct event_file_link *link;
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	if (file) {
> -		struct event_file_link *link;
> -
>  		link = kmalloc(sizeof(*link), GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!link) {
>  			ret = -ENOMEM;
> @@ -424,6 +423,16 @@ enable_trace_kprobe(struct trace_kprobe *tk, struct trace_event_file *file)
>  		else
>  			ret = enable_kprobe(&tk->rp.kp);
>  	}
> +
> +	if (ret) {
> +		if (file) {
> +			list_del_rcu(&link->list);
> +			kfree(link);
> +			tk->tp.flags &= ~TP_FLAG_TRACE;
> +		} else {
> +			tk->tp.flags &= ~TP_FLAG_PROFILE;
> +		}
> +	}
>   out:
>  	return ret;
>  }