Re: Fwd: uprobes: register/unregister probes.

From: Srikar Dronamraju
Date: Thu Nov 24 2011 - 04:51:30 EST


> > +
> > +       mutex_unlock(uprobes_hash(inode));
> > +       put_uprobe(uprobe);
> > +
> > +reg_out:
> > +       iput(inode);
> > +       return ret;
> > +}
>
> So if this function returns an error the caller is responsible for
> cleaning up consumer, otherwise we take responsibility.

The caller is always responsible to cleanup the consumer.
The only field we touch in the consumer is the next; thats because
we use to link up the consumers.

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar

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