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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-01-06 14:41:50 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-06 15:59:20 -0800
commit129415607845d4daea11ddcba706005c69dcb942 (patch)
tree9046ea79a0b81c8823b9d42f00fd7c158861ed5c /arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
parenta06f6211ef9b1785922f9d0e8766d63ac4e66de1 (diff)
kprobes: add kprobe_insn_mutex and cleanup arch_remove_kprobe()
Add kprobe_insn_mutex for protecting kprobe_insn_pages hlist, and remove kprobe_mutex from architecture dependent code. This allows us to call arch_remove_kprobe() (and free_insn_slot) while holding kprobe_mutex. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
index 6c27679ec6a..eead6f8f921 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -376,9 +376,10 @@ void __kprobes arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
void __kprobes arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
{
- mutex_lock(&kprobe_mutex);
- free_insn_slot(p->ainsn.insn, (p->ainsn.boostable == 1));
- mutex_unlock(&kprobe_mutex);
+ if (p->ainsn.insn) {
+ free_insn_slot(p->ainsn.insn, (p->ainsn.boostable == 1));
+ p->ainsn.insn = NULL;
+ }
}
static void __kprobes save_previous_kprobe(struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb)