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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2012-12-31 17:03:32 +0100
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2013-02-08 17:47:12 +0100
commit5a2df662aafdabffb2cf3adb780a5adf66dfb3bc (patch)
tree758f73ec4d1a89c1e7ab416503732c59fd7839ee /kernel
parent9b545df809644912552360054c7bbe8b8a9e01fa (diff)
uprobes: Turn add_utask() into get_utask()
Rename add_utask() into get_utask() and change it to allocate on demand to simplify the caller. Like get_xol_area() it will have more users. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/uprobes.c27
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 7e3e5c5b0d8..16e54d63a9f 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1290,23 +1290,18 @@ void uprobe_copy_process(struct task_struct *t)
}
/*
- * Allocate a uprobe_task object for the task.
- * Called when the thread hits a breakpoint for the first time.
+ * Allocate a uprobe_task object for the task if if necessary.
+ * Called when the thread hits a breakpoint.
*
* Returns:
* - pointer to new uprobe_task on success
* - NULL otherwise
*/
-static struct uprobe_task *add_utask(void)
+static struct uprobe_task *get_utask(void)
{
- struct uprobe_task *utask;
-
- utask = kzalloc(sizeof *utask, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (unlikely(!utask))
- return NULL;
-
- current->utask = utask;
- return utask;
+ if (!current->utask)
+ current->utask = kzalloc(sizeof(struct uprobe_task), GFP_KERNEL);
+ return current->utask;
}
/* Prepare to single-step probed instruction out of line. */
@@ -1505,13 +1500,9 @@ static void handle_swbp(struct pt_regs *regs)
if (unlikely(!test_bit(UPROBE_COPY_INSN, &uprobe->flags)))
goto out;
- utask = current->utask;
- if (!utask) {
- utask = add_utask();
- /* Cannot allocate; re-execute the instruction. */
- if (!utask)
- goto out;
- }
+ utask = get_utask();
+ if (!utask)
+ goto out; /* re-execute the instruction. */
handler_chain(uprobe, regs);
if (can_skip_sstep(uprobe, regs))