Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 1 author, 2012-03-21
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[PATCH RT 1/2] Revert "kprobes: adjust "fix a memory leak in function pre_handler_kretprobe()""

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2012-03-21 20:13:15
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: kprobes, the rest · Maintainers: Naveen N Rao, "David S. Miller", Masami Hiramatsu, Linus Torvalds

From: Steven Rostedt <redacted>

This reverts commit b8a0040ef7112439ad2efac6f1a79aa842b5924f.

As pointed out by John Kacur, the patch breaks 3.0-rt.

Because rt pulls in 7b8d0e5, the above fix which comes from v3.0.24
should not be applied. kretprobe is a raw_spinlock_t for real-time.

Before the revert we get the following compile errors

kernel/kprobes.c:1664: warning: passing argument 1 of 'rt_spin_lock' from incompatible pointer type
kernel/kprobes.c:1666: warning: passing argument 1 of 'rt_spin_unlock' from incompatible pointer type

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/kprobes.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index a7dcf06..9cdbf26 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1661,9 +1661,9 @@ static int __kprobes pre_handler_kretprobe(struct kprobe *p,
 		ri->task = current;
 
 		if (rp->entry_handler && rp->entry_handler(ri, regs)) {
-			spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->lock, flags);
+			raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->lock, flags);
 			hlist_add_head(&ri->hlist, &rp->free_instances);
-			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rp->lock, flags);
+			raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rp->lock, flags);
 			return 0;
 		}
 
-- 
1.7.8.3
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