From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt , Paul McKenney Subject: [ 39/98] tracing: Fix free of probe entry by calling call_rcu_sched() Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:42:28 -0700 Message-Id: <20130326224246.528206396@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130326224242.449070940@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130326224242.449070940@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" commit 740466bc89ad8bd5afcc8de220f715f62b21e365 upstream. Because function tracing is very invasive, and can even trace calls to rcu_read_lock(), RCU access in function tracing is done with preempt_disable_notrace(). This requires a synchronize_sched() for updates and not a synchronize_rcu(). Function probes (traceon, traceoff, etc) must be freed after a synchronize_sched() after its entry has been removed from the hash. But call_rcu() is used. Fix this by using call_rcu_sched(). Also fix the usage to use hlist_del_rcu() instead of hlist_del(). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Paul McKenney Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -3082,8 +3082,8 @@ __unregister_ftrace_function_probe(char continue; } - hlist_del(&entry->node); - call_rcu(&entry->rcu, ftrace_free_entry_rcu); + hlist_del_rcu(&entry->node); + call_rcu_sched(&entry->rcu, ftrace_free_entry_rcu); } } __disable_ftrace_function_probe();