From de0baf9ad661ac630a45a50ea1717cc4f4b33ace Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:47:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] tracepoints: fix disable

Impact: fix race

Set the probe array pointer to NULL when the tracepoint is disabled.
The probe array point not being NULL could generate a race condition
where the reader would dereference a freed pointer.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/tracepoint.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index e96590f17de1..47a7303d6cd9 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ static void set_tracepoint(struct tracepoint_entry **entry,
 static void disable_tracepoint(struct tracepoint *elem)
 {
 	elem->state = 0;
+	rcu_assign_pointer(elem->funcs, NULL);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
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