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timer statistics: fix race
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Fix two races in the timer stats lookup code.  One by ensuring that the
initialization of a new entry is finished upon insertion of that entry.
The other by cleaning up the hash table when the entries array is cleared,
so that we don't have any "pre-inserted" entries.

Thanks to Eric Dumazet for reminding me of the memory barriers.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kumlien <pomac@vapor.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bjorn Steinbrink authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jun 1, 2007
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37 changes: 21 additions & 16 deletions kernel/time/timer_stats.c
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Expand Up @@ -117,21 +117,6 @@ static struct entry entries[MAX_ENTRIES];

static atomic_t overflow_count;

static void reset_entries(void)
{
nr_entries = 0;
memset(entries, 0, sizeof(entries));
atomic_set(&overflow_count, 0);
}

static struct entry *alloc_entry(void)
{
if (nr_entries >= MAX_ENTRIES)
return NULL;

return entries + nr_entries++;
}

/*
* The entries are in a hash-table, for fast lookup:
*/
Expand All @@ -149,6 +134,22 @@ static struct entry *alloc_entry(void)

static struct entry *tstat_hash_table[TSTAT_HASH_SIZE] __read_mostly;

static void reset_entries(void)
{
nr_entries = 0;
memset(entries, 0, sizeof(entries));
memset(tstat_hash_table, 0, sizeof(tstat_hash_table));
atomic_set(&overflow_count, 0);
}

static struct entry *alloc_entry(void)
{
if (nr_entries >= MAX_ENTRIES)
return NULL;

return entries + nr_entries++;
}

static int match_entries(struct entry *entry1, struct entry *entry2)
{
return entry1->timer == entry2->timer &&
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -202,12 +203,15 @@ static struct entry *tstat_lookup(struct entry *entry, char *comm)
if (curr) {
*curr = *entry;
curr->count = 0;
curr->next = NULL;
memcpy(curr->comm, comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);

smp_mb(); /* Ensure that curr is initialized before insert */

if (prev)
prev->next = curr;
else
*head = curr;
curr->next = NULL;
}
out_unlock:
spin_unlock(&table_lock);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -360,6 +364,7 @@ static ssize_t tstats_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
if (!active) {
reset_entries();
time_start = ktime_get();
smp_mb();
active = 1;
}
break;
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