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kprobes: initialize before using a hlist
authorAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:34:04 +0000 (14:34 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:53:25 +0000 (13:53 -0800)
commit12652ed0daff9ea1b69143581ac2560e85412669
tree9d98f375206b59799382e3ff40e3ce3bb2a5eedc
parent18105e188320040b4ebdce3ac4231d719b61aedf
kprobes: initialize before using a hlist

commit d496aab567e7e52b3e974c9192a5de6e77dce32c upstream.

Commit ef53d9c5e ("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: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Srinivasa D S <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/kprobes.c