tracing/syscalls: protect thread flag toggling from races
Impact: fix syscall tracer enable/disable race The current thread flag toggling is racy as shown in the following scenario: - task A is the last user of syscall tracing, it releases the TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE on each tasks - at the same time task B start syscall tracing. refcount == 0 so it sets up TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE on each tasks. The effect of the mixup is unpredictable. So this fix adds a mutex on {start,stop}_syscall_tracing(). Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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