ftrace: fix selftest locking

Impact: fix self-test boot crash

Self-test failure forgot to re-lock the BKL - crashing the next
initcall:

Testing tracer irqsoff: .. no entries found ..FAILED!
initcall init_irqsoff_tracer+0x0/0x11 returned 0 after 3906 usecs
calling  init_mmio_trace+0x0/0xf @ 1
------------[ cut here ]------------
Kernel BUG at c0c0a915 [verbose debug info unavailable]
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
last sysfs file:

Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.28-rc5-tip #53704)
EIP: 0060:[<c0c0a915>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 1
EIP is at unlock_kernel+0x10/0x2b
EAX: ffffffff EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: f7030000
ESI: c12da19c EDI: 00000000 EBP: f7039f54 ESP: f7039f54
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=f7038000 task=f7030000 task.ti=f7038000)
Stack:
 f7039f6c c0164d30 c013fed8 a7d8d7b4 00000000 00000000 f7039f74 c12fb78a
 f7039fd0 c0101132 c12fb77d 00000000 6f727200 6f632072 2d206564 c1002031
 0000000f f7039fa2 f7039fb0 3531b171 00000000 00000000 0000002f c12ca480
Call Trace:
 [<c0164d30>] ? register_tracer+0x66/0x13f
 [<c013fed8>] ? ktime_get+0x19/0x1b
 [<c12fb78a>] ? init_mmio_trace+0xd/0xf
 [<c0101132>] ? do_one_initcall+0x4a/0x111
 [<c12fb77d>] ? init_mmio_trace+0x0/0xf
 [<c015c7e6>] ? init_irq_proc+0x46/0x59
 [<c12e851d>] ? kernel_init+0x104/0x152
 [<c12e8419>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152
 [<c01038b7>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
Code: 58 14 43 75 0a b8 00 9b 2d c1 e8 51 43 7a ff 64 a1 00 a0 37 c1 89 58 14 5b 5d c3 55 64 8b 15 00 a0 37 c1 83 7a 14 00 89 e5 79 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 8b 42 14 48 85 c0 89 42 14 79 0a b8 00 9b 2d c1 e8
EIP: [<c0c0a915>] unlock_kernel+0x10/0x2b SS:ESP 0068:f7039f54
---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

So clean up the flow a bit.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 1689212..24b6238 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -520,7 +520,15 @@ int register_tracer(struct tracer *type)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * When this gets called we hold the BKL which means that
+	 * preemption is disabled. Various trace selftests however
+	 * need to disable and enable preemption for successful tests.
+	 * So we drop the BKL here and grab it after the tests again.
+	 */
+	unlock_kernel();
 	mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
+
 	for (t = trace_types; t; t = t->next) {
 		if (strcmp(type->name, t->name) == 0) {
 			/* already found */
@@ -532,13 +540,6 @@ int register_tracer(struct tracer *type)
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
-	/*
-	 * When this gets called we hold the BKL which means that preemption
-	 * is disabled. Various trace selftests however need to disable
-	 * and enable preemption for successful tests. So we drop the BKL here
-	 * and grab it after the tests again.
-	 */
-	unlock_kernel();
 	if (type->selftest) {
 		struct tracer *saved_tracer = current_trace;
 		struct trace_array *tr = &global_trace;
@@ -550,9 +551,9 @@ int register_tracer(struct tracer *type)
 		 * internal tracing to verify that everything is in order.
 		 * If we fail, we do not register this tracer.
 		 */
-		for_each_tracing_cpu(i) {
+		for_each_tracing_cpu(i)
 			tracing_reset(tr, i);
-		}
+
 		current_trace = type;
 		/* the test is responsible for initializing and enabling */
 		pr_info("Testing tracer %s: ", type->name);
@@ -564,12 +565,11 @@ int register_tracer(struct tracer *type)
 			goto out;
 		}
 		/* Only reset on passing, to avoid touching corrupted buffers */
-		for_each_tracing_cpu(i) {
+		for_each_tracing_cpu(i)
 			tracing_reset(tr, i);
-		}
+
 		printk(KERN_CONT "PASSED\n");
 	}
-	lock_kernel();
 #endif
 
 	type->next = trace_types;
@@ -580,6 +580,7 @@ int register_tracer(struct tracer *type)
 
  out:
 	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
+	lock_kernel();
 
 	return ret;
 }