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Subject[27/27] kprobes: initialize before using a hlist
2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>

commit d496aab567e7e52b3e974c9192a5de6e77dce32c upstream.

Commit ef53d9c5e ("kprobes: improve kretprobe scalability with hashed
locking") introduced a bug where we can potentially leak
kretprobe_instances since we initialize a hlist head after having used
it.

Initialize the hlist head before using it.

Reported by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Srinivasa D S <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
kernel/kprobes.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ void __kprobes kprobe_flush_task(struct
/* Early boot. kretprobe_table_locks not yet initialized. */
return;

+ INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&empty_rp);
hash = hash_ptr(tk, KPROBE_HASH_BITS);
head = &kretprobe_inst_table[hash];
kretprobe_table_lock(hash, &flags);
@@ -474,7 +475,6 @@ void __kprobes kprobe_flush_task(struct
recycle_rp_inst(ri, &empty_rp);
}
kretprobe_table_unlock(hash, &flags);
- INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&empty_rp);
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(ri, node, tmp, &empty_rp, hlist) {
hlist_del(&ri->hlist);
kfree(ri);



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