[PATCH] kprobes: fix unloading of self probed module

When a kprobes modules is written in such a way that probes are inserted on
itself, then unload of that moudle was not possible due to reference
couning on the same module.

The below patch makes a check and incrementes the module refcount only if
it is not a self probed module.

We need to allow modules to probe themself for kprobes performance
measurements

This patch has been tested on several x86_64, ppc64 and IA64 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Keshavamurthy Anil S 2006-01-11 12:17:41 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ef43bc4fc3
commit df019b1d8b
2 changed files with 35 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ struct kprobe {
/* list of kprobes for multi-handler support */
struct list_head list;
/* Indicates that the corresponding module has been ref counted */
unsigned int mod_refcounted;
/*count the number of times this probe was temporarily disarmed */
unsigned long nmissed;