Re: [PATCH] Kprobes: Fix locking imbalance in kretprobes

From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
Date: Wed Mar 18 2009 - 08:25:14 EST


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:51:58PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Fix locking imbalance in kretprobes:
> >
> > =====================================
> > [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
> > -------------------------------------
> > kthreadd/2 is trying to release lock (&rp->lock) at:
> > [<c06b3080>] pre_handler_kretprobe+0xea/0xf4
>
> Applied it to tip:tracing/kprobes, thanks Ananth!
>
> The bug has been introduced in v2.6.27-rc1 so i've marked it for a
> -stable backport for .27.x, 28.x and 29.x.

Sure, thanks Ingo!
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