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author | Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> | 2009-06-02 22:39:48 +0200 |
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committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2009-06-02 22:49:57 +0200 |
commit | f7e8b616ed1cc6f790b82324bce8a2a60295e5c2 (patch) | |
tree | e46e50692d90ddcccf159accdcdd655d3dd0ffa5 /Kbuild | |
parent | function-graph: add memory barriers for accessing task's ret_stack (diff) | |
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function-graph: move initialization of new tasks up in fork
When the function graph tracer is enabled, all new tasks must allocate
a ret_stack to place the return address of functions. This is because
the function graph tracer will replace the real return address with a
call to the tracing of the exit function.
This initialization happens in fork, but it happens too late. If fork
fails, then it will call free_task and that calls the freeing of this
ret_stack. But before initialization happens, the new (failed) task
points to its parents ret_stack. If a fork failure happens during
the function trace, it would be catastrophic for the parent.
Also, there's no need to call ftrace_graph_exit_task from fork, since
it is called by free_task which fork calls on failure.
[ Impact: prevent crash during failed fork running function graph tracer ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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