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authorHaavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>2009-03-27 16:14:38 +0100
committerHaavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>2009-03-27 16:14:38 +0100
commitb92efa9abffc4a634cd2e7a0f81f8aa6310d67c9 (patch)
tree9847508d9b8d4e585f90db4a453bfbc3700c997e /arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
parentAdd Merisc board support (diff)
parentMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pen... (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into avr32-arch
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c18
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 0a5df5f82fb9..06ca07f6ad86 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -810,12 +810,16 @@ static void ptrace_bts_untrace(struct task_struct *child)
static void ptrace_bts_detach(struct task_struct *child)
{
- if (unlikely(child->bts)) {
- ds_release_bts(child->bts);
- child->bts = NULL;
-
- ptrace_bts_free_buffer(child);
- }
+ /*
+ * Ptrace_detach() races with ptrace_untrace() in case
+ * the child dies and is reaped by another thread.
+ *
+ * We only do the memory accounting at this point and
+ * leave the buffer deallocation and the bts tracer
+ * release to ptrace_bts_untrace() which will be called
+ * later on with tasklist_lock held.
+ */
+ release_locked_buffer(child->bts_buffer, child->bts_size);
}
#else
static inline void ptrace_bts_fork(struct task_struct *tsk) {}
@@ -1384,7 +1388,7 @@ void send_sigtrap(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pt_regs *regs,
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
# define IS_IA32 1
#elif defined CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
-# define IS_IA32 test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)
+# define IS_IA32 is_compat_task()
#else
# define IS_IA32 0
#endif