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Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] tracing: remove igrab() iput() call from uprobes.c
Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:56:25 -0700
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Caller of uprobe_register is required to keep the inode and containing
mount point referenced.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Howard McLauchlan <hmclauchlan@fb.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index ce6848e..20486bb 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -491,7 +491,6 @@ static struct uprobe *alloc_uprobe(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset)
 	if (!uprobe)
 		return NULL;
 
-	uprobe->inode = igrab(inode);
 	uprobe->offset = offset;
 	init_rwsem(&uprobe->register_rwsem);
 	init_rwsem(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem);
@@ -502,7 +501,6 @@ static struct uprobe *alloc_uprobe(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset)
 	if (cur_uprobe) {
 		kfree(uprobe);
 		uprobe = cur_uprobe;
-		iput(inode);
 	}
 
 	return uprobe;
@@ -701,7 +699,6 @@ static void delete_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe)
 	rb_erase(&uprobe->rb_node, &uprobes_tree);
 	spin_unlock(&uprobes_treelock);
 	RB_CLEAR_NODE(&uprobe->rb_node); /* for uprobe_is_active() */
-	iput(uprobe->inode);
 	put_uprobe(uprobe);
 }
 
@@ -873,7 +870,8 @@ static void __uprobe_unregister(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct uprobe_consumer *u
  * tuple).  Creation refcount stops uprobe_unregister from freeing the
  * @uprobe even before the register operation is complete. Creation
  * refcount is released when the last @uc for the @uprobe
- * unregisters.
+ * unregisters. Caller of uprobe_register() is required to keep @inode
+ * (and the containing mount) referenced.
  *
  * Return errno if it cannot successully install probes
  * else return 0 (success)
-- 
2.9.5