Re: [PATCH 05/13] ftrace: Call trace_parser_clear() properly

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 06:03:46PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > I'm missing something. How that can happen. Anytime we reopen
> > the file, the parser is re-allocated.
> > 
> 
> It happened at file closing..
> 
> static int
> ftrace_regex_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, int enable)
> {
> 	...
>         parser = &iter->parser;
>         if (trace_parser_loaded(parser)) {
>                 parser->buffer[parser->idx] = 0;
> 		/* here ! */
>                 ftrace_match_records(parser->buffer, parser->idx, enable);
>         }
> 	...
> }


Aah, ok.

 
> > I guess that happens if you open in rw mode? But not using the
> > example in the changelog?
> 
> I've confirmed that example I was using can reveal this bug.

Yeah indeed.