Robert Richter 750d857c68 oprofile: fix crash when accessing freed task structs ... This patch fixes a crash during shutdown reported below. The crash is caused by accessing already freed task structs. The fix changes the order for registering and unregistering notifier callbacks. All notifiers must be initialized before buffers start working. To stop buffer synchronization we cancel all workqueues, unregister the notifier callback and then flush all buffers. After all of this we finally can free all tasks listed. This should avoid accessing freed tasks. On 22.07.10 01:14:40, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > So the initial observation is a spinlock bad magic followed by a crash > in the spinlock debug code: > > [ 1541.586531] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#5, events/5/136 > [ 1541.597564] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6d03 > > Backtrace looks like: > > spin_bug+0x74/0xd4 > ._raw_spin_lock+0x48/0x184 > ._spin_lock+0x10/0x24 > .get_task_mm+0x28/0x8c > .sync_buffer+0x1b4/0x598 > .wq_sync_buffer+0xa0/0xdc > .worker_thread+0x1d8/0x2a8 > .kthread+0xa8/0xb4 > .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70 > > So we are accessing a freed task struct in the work queue when > processing the samples. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>		2010-08-25 09:09:09 +02:00
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buffer_sync.c	oprofile: fix crash when accessing freed task structs	2010-08-25 09:09:09 +02:00
buffer_sync.h
cpu_buffer.c	oprofile: fix crash when accessing freed task structs	2010-08-25 09:09:09 +02:00
cpu_buffer.h
event_buffer.c	oprofile: make event buffer nonseekable	2010-07-26 10:58:24 +02:00
event_buffer.h
oprof.c
oprof.h
oprofile_files.c
oprofile_stats.c
oprofile_stats.h
oprofilefs.c
timer_int.c