Re: [PATCH RFC v2] trace, blktrace: don't let the sysfs interface remove trace from running list

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 11/13/2014 07:07 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Jens (Cc'd) maintains the blktrace. He can take this if he wants.
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:40:49 +0100
> Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Currently, blktrace can be started/stopped via its ioctl-based interface
>> (used by the userspace blktrace tool) or via its ftrace interface. The
>> function blk_trace_remove_queue(), called each time an "enable" tunable
>> of the ftrace interface transitions to zero, removes the trace from the
>> running list, even if no function from the sysfs interface adds it to
>> such a list. This leads to a null pointer dereference.
>> This commit changes the blk_trace_remove_queue() function so that it
>> does not remove the blk_trace from the running list.
>>
>> v2:
>>     - Now the patch removes the invocation of list_del() instead of
>>       adding an useless if branch, as suggested by Namhyung Kim.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 3 ---
>>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
>> index c1bd4ad..bd05fd2 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
>> @@ -1493,9 +1493,6 @@ static int blk_trace_remove_queue(struct request_queue *q)
>>  	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&blk_probes_ref))
>>  		blk_unregister_tracepoints();
>>  
>> -	spin_lock_irq(&running_trace_lock);
>> -	list_del(&bt->running_list);
>> -	spin_unlock_irq(&running_trace_lock);
>>  	blk_trace_free(bt);
>>  	return 0;

Applied, thanks!

-- 
Jens Axboe