From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756606Ab3AHXhb (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:37:31 -0500 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:63492 "EHLO mail.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756531Ab3AHXhY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:37:24 -0500 From: Paul Gortmaker To: , CC: Robert Richter , Paul Gortmaker Subject: [v2.6.34-stable 46/77] oprofile: Free potentially owned tasks in case of errors Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:35:25 -0500 Message-ID: <1357688156-25387-47-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12.1 In-Reply-To: <1357688156-25387-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> References: <1357688156-25387-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Robert Richter ------------------- This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. ------------------- commit 6ac6519b93065625119a347be1cbcc1b89edb773 upstream. After registering the task free notifier we possibly have tasks in our dying_tasks list. Free them after unregistering the notifier in case of an error. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c index b7e755f..e353ebf 100644 --- a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c +++ b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c @@ -141,6 +141,13 @@ static struct notifier_block module_load_nb = { .notifier_call = module_load_notify, }; +static void free_all_tasks(void) +{ + /* make sure we don't leak task structs */ + process_task_mortuary(); + process_task_mortuary(); +} + int sync_start(void) { int err; @@ -174,6 +181,7 @@ out3: profile_event_unregister(PROFILE_TASK_EXIT, &task_exit_nb); out2: task_handoff_unregister(&task_free_nb); + free_all_tasks(); out1: free_cpumask_var(marked_cpus); goto out; @@ -192,10 +200,7 @@ void sync_stop(void) mutex_unlock(&buffer_mutex); flush_scheduled_work(); - /* make sure we don't leak task structs */ - process_task_mortuary(); - process_task_mortuary(); - + free_all_tasks(); free_cpumask_var(marked_cpus); } -- 1.7.12.1