[PATCH] tracing: fix stack tracer sysctl handling

From: Li Zefan
Date: Fri Jun 26 2009 - 04:55:24 EST


This made my machine completely frozen:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
# echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled

The cause is register_ftrace_function() was called twice.

Also fix ftrace_enabled sysctl, though seems nothing bad happened
as I tested it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 4 ++--
kernel/trace/trace_stack.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 673fc8b..4521c77 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -3159,10 +3159,10 @@ ftrace_enable_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,

ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, file, buffer, lenp, ppos);

- if (ret || !write || (last_ftrace_enabled == ftrace_enabled))
+ if (ret || !write || (last_ftrace_enabled == !!ftrace_enabled))
goto out;

- last_ftrace_enabled = ftrace_enabled;
+ last_ftrace_enabled = !!ftrace_enabled;

if (ftrace_enabled) {

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index 2d7aebd..e644af9 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -326,10 +326,10 @@ stack_trace_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, file, buffer, lenp, ppos);

if (ret || !write ||
- (last_stack_tracer_enabled == stack_tracer_enabled))
+ (last_stack_tracer_enabled == !!stack_tracer_enabled))
goto out;

- last_stack_tracer_enabled = stack_tracer_enabled;
+ last_stack_tracer_enabled = !!stack_tracer_enabled;

if (stack_tracer_enabled)
register_ftrace_function(&trace_ops);
--
1.5.4.rc3

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