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gcov: fix null-pointer dereference for certain module types
authorPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 9 Sep 2010 23:37:35 +0000 (16:37 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:36:35 +0000 (13:36 -0700)
commitb2f62d51745043996a75a45ba9e40b4be9595332
tree1f2dbfb82ef9a50ac419286c03fd76978ecd43f3
parent8417544f5bba23a210528125af2c4fa04f5e1683
gcov: fix null-pointer dereference for certain module types

commit 85a0fdfd0f967507f3903e8419bc7e408f5a59de upstream.

The gcov-kernel infrastructure expects that each object file is loaded
only once.  This may not be true, e.g.  when loading multiple kernel
modules which are linked to the same object file.  As a result, loading
such kernel modules will result in incorrect gcov results while unloading
will cause a null-pointer dereference.

This patch fixes these problems by changing the gcov-kernel infrastructure
so that multiple profiling data sets can be associated with one debugfs
entry.  It applies to 2.6.36-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Werner Spies <werner.spies@thalesgroup.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/gcov/fs.c