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Commit 20c8928a authored by Li Zefan's avatar Li Zefan Committed by Ingo Molnar
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tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events list



A module will add/remove its trace events when it gets loaded/unloaded, so
the ftrace_events list is not "const", and concurrent access needs to be
protected.

This patch thus fixes races between loading/unloding modules and read
'available_events' or read/write 'set_event', etc.

Below shows how to reproduce the race:

 # for ((; ;)) { cat /mnt/tracing/available_events; } > /dev/null &
 # for ((; ;)) { insmod trace-events-sample.ko; rmmod sample; } &

After a while:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0010011c
IP: [<c1080f27>] t_next+0x1b/0x2d
...
Call Trace:
 [<c10c90e6>] ? seq_read+0x217/0x30d
 [<c10c8ecf>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x30d
 [<c10b4c19>] ? vfs_read+0x8f/0x136
 [<c10b4fc3>] ? sys_read+0x40/0x65
 [<c1002a68>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36

[ Impact: fix races when concurrent accessing ftrace_events list ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4A00F709.3080800@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 2df75e41
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