From eae849ca034c7f1015f0a6f17421ebc737f0a069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:33:12 +0100 Subject: 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] [] ? do_exit+0x603/0x850 [ 65.689027] [] ? next_signal+0x9/0x40 [ 65.689027] [] ? dequeue_signal+0x8c/0x180 [ 65.689027] [] ? do_group_exit+0x36/0x90 [ 65.689027] [] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x20c/0x390 [ 65.689027] [] ? do_notify_resume+0x99/0x8b0 [ 65.689027] [] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5a/0x80 [ 65.689027] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10 [ 65.689027] [] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5a/0x80 [ 65.689027] [] ? n_tty_write+0x0/0x340 [ 65.689027] [] ? redirected_tty_write+0x82/0x90 [ 65.689027] [] ? vfs_write+0x99/0xd0 [ 65.689027] [] ? redirected_tty_write+0x0/0x90 [ 65.689027] [] ? sys_write+0x42/0x70 [ 65.689027] [] ? 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3