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Commit d496aab5 authored by Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli's avatar Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Committed by Linus Torvalds
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kprobes: initialize before using a hlist

Commit ef53d9c5

 ("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: default avatarJim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Srinivasa D S <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 2a4e64b8
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