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  1. Jul 07, 2011
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: Fix bug when reading system filters on module removal · e9dbfae5
      Steven Rostedt authored
      
      
      The event system is freed when its nr_events is set to zero. This happens
      when a module created an event system and then later the module is
      removed. Modules may share systems, so the system is allocated when
      it is created and freed when the modules are unloaded and all the
      events under the system are removed (nr_events set to zero).
      
      The problem arises when a task opened the "filter" file for the
      system. If the module is unloaded and it removed the last event for
      that system, the system structure is freed. If the task that opened
      the filter file accesses the "filter" file after the system has
      been freed, the system will access an invalid pointer.
      
      By adding a ref_count, and using it to keep track of what
      is using the event system, we can free it after all users
      are finished with the event system.
      
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Reported-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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