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[PATCH -mm] bugfix: release old_p's insn_slot before error return
- From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at redhat dot com>
- To: akpm at linux-foundation dot org
- Cc: mm-commits at vger dot kernel dot org, ananth at in dot ibm dot com, anil dot s dot keshavamurthy at intel dot com, Jim Keniston <jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com>, LKML <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, systemtap-ml <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:02:29 -0500
- Subject: [PATCH -mm] bugfix: release old_p's insn_slot before error return
- References: <200811190741.mAJ7fvK5019964@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Hi Andrew,
akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> The patch titled
> bugfix: pass aggr_kprobe to arch_remove_kprobe
> has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
> kprobes-support-probing-module-__exit-function-fix-2.patch
Oops, sorry, I found one another bug...
Release old_p->ainsn.insn_slot before error return, if the memory
allocation of new aggr_kprobe is failed.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
---
kernel/kprobes.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: 2.6.28-rc4/kernel/kprobes.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.28-rc4.orig/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ 2.6.28-rc4/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -584,8 +584,11 @@ static int __kprobes register_aggr_kprob
ap = old_p;
} else {
ap = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kprobe), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ap)
+ if (!ap) {
+ if (kprobe_gone(old_p))
+ arch_remove_kprobe(old_p);
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
add_aggr_kprobe(ap, old_p);
copy_kprobe(ap, p);
ret = add_new_kprobe(ap, p);
--
Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com