This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing/samples: Fix creation and deletion of simple_thread_fn creation to the 4.13-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tracing-samples-fix-creation-and-deletion-of-simple_thread_fn-creation.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6575257c60e1a26a5319ccf2b5ce5b6449001017 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:55:24 -0400 Subject: tracing/samples: Fix creation and deletion of simple_thread_fn creation From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6575257c60e1a26a5319ccf2b5ce5b6449001017 upstream. Commit 7496946a8 ("tracing: Add samples of DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT()") added template examples for all the events. It created a DEFINE_EVENT_FN() example which reused the foo_bar_reg and foo_bar_unreg functions. Enabling both the TRACE_EVENT_FN() and DEFINE_EVENT_FN() example trace events caused the foo_bar_reg to be called twice, creating the test thread twice. The foo_bar_unreg would remove it only once, even if it was called multiple times, leaving a thread existing when the module is unloaded, causing an oops. Add a ref count and allow foo_bar_reg() and foo_bar_unreg() be called by multiple trace events. Fixes: 7496946a8 ("tracing: Add samples of DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT()") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c +++ b/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c @@ -78,29 +78,37 @@ static int simple_thread_fn(void *arg) } static DEFINE_MUTEX(thread_mutex); +static bool simple_thread_cnt; int foo_bar_reg(void) { + mutex_lock(&thread_mutex); + if (simple_thread_cnt++) + goto out; + pr_info("Starting thread for foo_bar_fn\n"); /* * We shouldn't be able to start a trace when the module is * unloading (there's other locks to prevent that). But * for consistency sake, we still take the thread_mutex. */ - mutex_lock(&thread_mutex); simple_tsk_fn = kthread_run(simple_thread_fn, NULL, "event-sample-fn"); + out: mutex_unlock(&thread_mutex); return 0; } void foo_bar_unreg(void) { - pr_info("Killing thread for foo_bar_fn\n"); - /* protect against module unloading */ mutex_lock(&thread_mutex); + if (--simple_thread_cnt) + goto out; + + pr_info("Killing thread for foo_bar_fn\n"); if (simple_tsk_fn) kthread_stop(simple_tsk_fn); simple_tsk_fn = NULL; + out: mutex_unlock(&thread_mutex); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.13/tracing-samples-fix-creation-and-deletion-of-simple_thread_fn-creation.patch