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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2009-10-26 19:23:17 -0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-27 13:51:53 +0100
commit7f3bedcc93f935631d2363f23de1cc80f04fdf3e (patch)
tree3fb5bc27a52e6d41395c7361c46f91d4d909a6c8 /tools
parentfcd14b3203b538dca04a2b065c774c0b57863eec (diff)
perf record: Fix race where process can disappear while reading its /proc/pid/tasks
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1256592199-9608-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index ac5ddfff445..9e1638cc19c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ static pid_t pid_synthesize_comm_event(pid_t pid, int full)
fp = fopen(filename, "r");
if (fp == NULL) {
+out_race:
/*
* We raced with a task exiting - just return:
*/
@@ -247,6 +248,9 @@ static pid_t pid_synthesize_comm_event(pid_t pid, int full)
snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "/proc/%d/task", pid);
tasks = opendir(filename);
+ if (tasks == NULL)
+ goto out_race;
+
while (!readdir_r(tasks, &dirent, &next) && next) {
char *end;
pid = strtol(dirent.d_name, &end, 10);