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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2009-03-26 10:25:24 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2009-04-23 23:01:36 -0400
commit9be24414aad047dcf9d8d2a9a929321536c7ebec (patch)
treec4299c263acf1859ff59a3cb03a26826e7d57660 /kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
parent6a74aa40907757ec98d8710ff66cd4cfe064e7d8 (diff)
tracing/wakeup: move access to wakeup_cpu into spinlock
The code had the following outside the lock: if (next != wakeup_task) return; pc = preempt_count(); /* The task we are waiting for is waking up */ data = wakeup_trace->data[wakeup_cpu]; On initialization, wakeup_task is NULL and wakeup_cpu -1. This code is not under a lock. If wakeup_task is set on another CPU as that task is waking up, we can see the wakeup_task before wakeup_cpu is set. If we read wakeup_cpu while it is still -1 then we will have a bad data pointer. This patch moves the reading of wakeup_cpu within the protection of the spinlock used to protect the writing of wakeup_cpu and wakeup_task. [ Impact: remove possible race causing invalid pointer dereference ] Reported-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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