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| author | Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> | 2012-01-20 14:34:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-23 08:38:48 -0800 |
| commit | d496aab567e7e52b3e974c9192a5de6e77dce32c (patch) | |
| tree | aa323c702bbf24567e4b7a244a135346f6aaeb5b /kernel/softirq.c | |
| parent | 2a4e64b8f6bcbf23ddd375b78342051ae8862284 (diff) | |
kprobes: initialize before using a hlist
Commit ef53d9c5e ("kprobes: improve kretprobe scalability with hashed
locking") introduced a bug where we can potentially leak
kretprobe_instances since we initialize a hlist head after having used
it.
Initialize the hlist head before using it.
Reported by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Srinivasa D S <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/softirq.c')
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