The patch titled
ia64: fix the order of atomic operations in restore_previous_kprobes()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ia64-fix-the-order-of-atomic-operations-in-restore_previous_kprobes.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: ia64: fix the order of atomic operations in restore_previous_kprobes()
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fix the order of atomic operations to prevent overwriting prev_kprobe[0].
To pop values from stack, we must decrement stack index right AFTER reading
values.
Details of this issue was reported to
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2071
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c~ia64-fix-the-order-of-atomic-operations-in-restore_previous_kprobes arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c~ia64-fix-the-order-of-atomic-operations-in-restore_previous_kprobes
+++ a/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -381,9 +381,10 @@ static void __kprobes save_previous_kpro
static void __kprobes restore_previous_kprobe(struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb)
{
unsigned int i;
- i = atomic_sub_return(1, &kcb->prev_kprobe_index);
- __get_cpu_var(current_kprobe) = kcb->prev_kprobe[i].kp;
- kcb->kprobe_status = kcb->prev_kprobe[i].status;
+ i = atomic_read(&kcb->prev_kprobe_index);
+ __get_cpu_var(current_kprobe) = kcb->prev_kprobe[i-1].kp;
+ kcb->kprobe_status = kcb->prev_kprobe[i-1].status;
+ atomic_sub(1, &kcb->prev_kprobe_index);
}
static void __kprobes set_current_kprobe(struct kprobe *p,
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-ia64.patch
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