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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Geyslan G. Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com>,
	kernel-br@googlegroups.com,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: fix referencing after memory freeing and refactors code
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:43:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131019124312.GA23872@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131017224605.2e1d4bab@gandalf.local.home>

On 10/17, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 22:44:56 -0300
> "Geyslan G. Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > and fix the possible 'dir'
> > assignment after freeing it.

This should be safe afaics, nobody will use it anyway. Even
subsystem_release() won't be called if .open() fails. But I agree
this doesn't look good.

> I'm thinking of just nuking the tracing_open_generic() here. The only
> thing it does here is the tracing_disabled check. The assignment of
> inode->i_private to filp->private_data is pointless

The same for ftrace_enable_fops() and ftrace_event_filter_fops() at
least. The users of event_file_data() do not use ->private_data.

OTOH, say, trace_format_open() doesn't check tracing_disabled, so

> We could add a tracing_is_disabled() function to test instead.

perhaps it can have more callers.

Oleg.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-19 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-18  1:44 [PATCH] tracing: fix referencing after memory freeing and refactors code Geyslan G. Bem
2013-10-18  2:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-18  9:49   ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-10-18 11:02     ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-10-18 12:34       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-19 12:43   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-10-19 13:34     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-19 13:58     ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-10-19 14:18       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-19 14:41         ` Geyslan Gregório Bem
2013-10-19 19:10           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-19 19:35             ` Geyslan Gregório Bem

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