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Subject[for-next-3.11][PATCH 2/2] tracing: Kill the unbalanced tr->ref++ in tracing_buffers_open()
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

tracing_buffers_open() does trace_array_get() and then it wrongly
inrcements tr->ref again under trace_types_lock. This means that
every caller leaks trace_array:

# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
# mkdir instances/X
# true < instances/X/per_cpu/cpu0/trace_pipe_raw
# rmdir instances/X
rmdir: failed to remove `instances/X': Device or resource busy

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130719153644.GA18899@redhat.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 7d9ceab..3f24777 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4959,8 +4959,6 @@ static int tracing_buffers_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)

mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);

- tr->ref++;
-
info->iter.tr = tr;
info->iter.cpu_file = tc->cpu;
info->iter.trace = tr->current_trace;
--
1.7.10.4



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