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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] tracing/ftrace: check if debugfs is registered before creating files
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:26:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090323082642.GC18837@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237759847-21025-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>


* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> Impact: fix a crash with ftrace={nop,boot} parameter
> 
> If the nop or initcall tracers are launched as boot tracers,
> they will attempt to create their option directory and files.
> But these tracers are registered very early and then assigned
> as "boot tracers" very early if asked to.
> 
> Since they do this before debugfs has been registered (core initcall),
> a crash is triggered.
> 
> Another early tracers could also come later. So we fix it by
> checking if debugfs is initialized before creating the root
> tracing directory.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Note - i'll delay this patch pending Greg's Ack.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-23  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-22 22:10 [PATCH 1/5] tracing/events: make the filter files writable Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-22 22:10 ` [PATCH 2/5] debugfs: function to know if debugfs is initialized Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-23  8:18   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-23 14:41     ` Greg KH
2009-03-23 16:08       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-23 15:57   ` [tip:tracing/ftrace] " Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-22 22:10 ` [PATCH 3/5] tracing/ftrace: check if debugfs is registered before creating files Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-23  8:26   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-03-23 15:57   ` [tip:tracing/ftrace] " Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-23 19:18   ` [PATCH 3/5] " Steven Rostedt
2009-03-23 19:22     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-23 19:47     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-22 22:10 ` [PATCH 4/5] tracing/events: don't use wake up for events Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-23  8:30   ` [tip:tracing/filters] " Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-23 19:21     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-23 19:33       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-22 22:10 ` [PATCH 5/5] tracing/ftrace: make nop using polling wait for events on pipe Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-23  8:31   ` [tip:tracing/filters] tracing/ftrace: make nop-tracer use " Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-22 22:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] tracing/events: make the filter files writable Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-23  8:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-23  8:31   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-23  8:30 ` [tip:tracing/filters] " Frederic Weisbecker

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