From 129415607845d4daea11ddcba706005c69dcb942 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:41:50 -0800 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Cc: Russell King Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c') 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) -- cgit v1.2.3