[ltt-dev] [PATCH] lttng-modules v0.19-stable: setup_trace_write: Fix recursive locking

Niskanen, Juha juha_niskanen at mentor.com
Thu Nov 24 13:20:43 EST 2011


lttng-modules: ltt_trace_destroy calls ltt_lock_traces internally so this non-recursive
mutex must be first unlocked when executing error handling code.

Signed-off-by: Juha Niskanen <juha_niskanen at mentor.com>
---
 ltt-trace-control.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ltt-trace-control.c b/ltt-trace-control.c
index 9d6d239..12a3f19 100644
--- a/ltt-trace-control.c
+++ b/ltt-trace-control.c
@@ -734,6 +734,8 @@ ssize_t setup_trace_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
 	if (IS_ERR_VALUE(err)) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "setup_trace_write: "
 		       "_create_trace_control_dir failed: %d\n", err);
+		ltt_unlock_traces();
+		ltt_trace_destroy(trace_name);
 		goto err_create_trace_control_dir;
 	}
 
@@ -744,10 +746,9 @@ ssize_t setup_trace_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
 	free_page((unsigned long)trace_name);
 	return count;
 
-err_create_trace_control_dir:
-	ltt_trace_destroy(trace_name);
 err_setup_trace:
 	ltt_unlock_traces();
+err_create_trace_control_dir:
 	mutex_unlock(&control_lock);
 err_get_tracename:
 err_copy_from_user:
-- 
1.7.3.4





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