function-graph: move initialization of new tasks up in fork
authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:39:48 +0000 (16:39 -0400)
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:49:57 +0000 (16:49 -0400)
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>
kernel/fork.c

index b9e2edd..c4b1e35 100644 (file)
@@ -982,6 +982,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
        if (!p)
                goto fork_out;
 
+       ftrace_graph_init_task(p);
+
        rt_mutex_init_task(p);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
@@ -1131,8 +1133,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
                }
        }
 
-       ftrace_graph_init_task(p);
-
        p->pid = pid_nr(pid);
        p->tgid = p->pid;
        if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
@@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
        if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy) {
                retval = ns_cgroup_clone(p, pid);
                if (retval)
-                       goto bad_fork_free_graph;
+                       goto bad_fork_free_pid;
        }
 
        p->set_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
@@ -1233,7 +1233,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
                spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
                write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
                retval = -ERESTARTNOINTR;
-               goto bad_fork_free_graph;
+               goto bad_fork_free_pid;
        }
 
        if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) {
@@ -1268,8 +1268,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
        cgroup_post_fork(p);
        return p;
 
-bad_fork_free_graph:
-       ftrace_graph_exit_task(p);
 bad_fork_free_pid:
        if (pid != &init_struct_pid)
                free_pid(pid);