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authorTörök Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>2008-11-23 05:39:07 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-23 05:53:49 -0500
commitcffa10aecb6891f090a4d53a075bc40c082c45fc (patch)
tree825b264f70bc5c5aaa2882e8dfba75e366238b1e
parent8d7c6a96164651dbbab449ef0b5c20ae1f76a3a1 (diff)
tracing/stack-tracer: fix locking and refcounts
Impact: fix refcounting/object-access bug Hold mmap_sem while looking up/accessing vma. Hold the RCU lock while using the task we looked up. Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index dedf35f36971..4c3bd82cec49 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1462,11 +1462,15 @@ static inline int seq_print_user_ip(struct trace_seq *s, struct mm_struct *mm,
1462 int ret = 1; 1462 int ret = 1;
1463 1463
1464 if (mm) { 1464 if (mm) {
1465 const struct vm_area_struct *vma = find_vma(mm, ip); 1465 const struct vm_area_struct *vma;
1466
1467 down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
1468 vma = find_vma(mm, ip);
1466 if (vma) { 1469 if (vma) {
1467 file = vma->vm_file; 1470 file = vma->vm_file;
1468 vmstart = vma->vm_start; 1471 vmstart = vma->vm_start;
1469 } 1472 }
1473 up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
1470 } 1474 }
1471 if (file) { 1475 if (file) {
1472 ret = trace_seq_path(s, &file->f_path); 1476 ret = trace_seq_path(s, &file->f_path);
@@ -1494,10 +1498,9 @@ seq_print_userip_objs(const struct userstack_entry *entry, struct trace_seq *s,
1494 */ 1498 */
1495 rcu_read_lock(); 1499 rcu_read_lock();
1496 task = find_task_by_vpid(entry->ent.tgid); 1500 task = find_task_by_vpid(entry->ent.tgid);
1497 rcu_read_unlock();
1498
1499 if (task) 1501 if (task)
1500 mm = get_task_mm(task); 1502 mm = get_task_mm(task);
1503 rcu_read_unlock();
1501 } 1504 }
1502 1505
1503 for (i = 0; i < FTRACE_STACK_ENTRIES; i++) { 1506 for (i = 0; i < FTRACE_STACK_ENTRIES; i++) {