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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2008-11-23 17:33:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-11-23 17:39:03 +0100 |
| commit | eae849ca034c7f1015f0a6f17421ebc737f0a069 (patch) | |
| tree | f247bac71fd0fe4fa80bde31ccf3dcca2bda74d1 /kernel | |
| parent | 82f60f0bc854aada696f27d863c03bef91f1509d (diff) | |
tracing/function-return-tracer: don't trace kfree while it frees the return stack
Impact: fix a crash
While I killed the cat process, I got sometimes the following (but rare)
crash:
[ 65.689027] Pid: 2969, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.28-rc6-tip #83) AMILO Li 2727
[ 65.689027] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00010082 CPU: 1
[ 65.689027] EIP is at 0x0
[ 65.689027] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f66cd780 ECX: c019a64a EDX: f66cd780
[ 65.689027] ESI: 00000286 EDI: f66cd780 EBP: f630be2c ESP: f630be24
[ 65.689027] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[ 65.689027] Process cat (pid: 2969, ti=f630a000 task=f66cd780 task.ti=f630a000)
[ 65.689027] Stack:
[ 65.689027] 00000012 f630bd54 f630be7c c012c853 00000000 c0133cc9 f66cda54 f630be5c
[ 65.689027] f630be68 f66cda54 f66cd88c f66cd878 f7070000 00000001 f630be90 c0135dbc
[ 65.689027] f614a614 f630be68 f630be68 f65ba200 00000002 f630bf10 f630be90 c012cad6
[ 65.689027] Call Trace:
[ 65.689027] [<c012c853>] ? do_exit+0x603/0x850
[ 65.689027] [<c0133cc9>] ? next_signal+0x9/0x40
[ 65.689027] [<c0135dbc>] ? dequeue_signal+0x8c/0x180
[ 65.689027] [<c012cad6>] ? do_group_exit+0x36/0x90
[ 65.689027] [<c013709c>] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x20c/0x390
[ 65.689027] [<c0102b69>] ? do_notify_resume+0x99/0x8b0
[ 65.689027] [<c02e6d1a>] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5a/0x80
[ 65.689027] [<c014db9b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
[ 65.689027] [<c02e6d1a>] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5a/0x80
[ 65.689027] [<c02e39b0>] ? n_tty_write+0x0/0x340
[ 65.689027] [<c02e1812>] ? redirected_tty_write+0x82/0x90
[ 65.689027] [<c019ee99>] ? vfs_write+0x99/0xd0
[ 65.689027] [<c02e1790>] ? redirected_tty_write+0x0/0x90
[ 65.689027] [<c019f342>] ? sys_write+0x42/0x70
[ 65.689027] [<c01035ca>] ? work_notifysig+0x13/0x19
[ 65.689027] Code: Bad EIP value.
[ 65.689027] EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 0068:f630be24
This is because on do_exit(), kfree is called to free the return addresses stack
but kfree is traced and stored its return address in this stack.
This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 90d99fb02ae..53042f118f2 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -1628,8 +1628,13 @@ void ftrace_retfunc_init_task(struct task_struct *t) void ftrace_retfunc_exit_task(struct task_struct *t) { - kfree(t->ret_stack); + struct ftrace_ret_stack *ret_stack = t->ret_stack; + t->ret_stack = NULL; + /* NULL must become visible to IRQs before we free it: */ + barrier(); + + kfree(ret_stack); } #endif |