Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 15:10:53 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
        "zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/4] tracing/kprobes: Fail to unregister if probe
	event files are open
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On 07/31, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 22:40 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > This should be fine. Either event_remove() path takes event_mutex
> > first and then ->write() fails, or ftrace_event_enable_disable()
> > actually disables this even successfully.
>
> Actually I meant while in unregister_trace_probe(), it gets by the
> trace_probe_is_enabled() part first, then the write succeeds (as the
> event_mutex isn't taken till unregister_probe_event()). The the
> unregister_probe_event fails,

Yes sure. In this case evrything is clear. But this looks as if
unregister_probe_event() should not fail. IOW, this looks as if
the bug was introduce by the previous "trace_remove_event_call()
should fail if call/file is in use" change.

Oleg.

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