[Devel] Re: utrace, RCU and ia64

[Alexey Dobriyan]

[double freeing of struct utrace leading to oops in
 __rcu_process_callbacks]

Hi, Roland,

utrace debugging you've put into 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 helped. Two double-frees
reproduced:
1) BUG at kernel/utrace.c:176
	rcu_utrace_free
	utrace_reap
	utrace_release_task
	release_task
	flush_old_exec
	load_elf_binary
	search_binary_handler
	do_execve

2)	rcu_utrace_free
	check_dead_utrace
	remove_detached
	finish_report_death
	utrace_report_death
	do_exit
	debug_mutex_init
	get_signal_to_deliver
	do_notify_resume
	ptregscall_common
	sysret_signal
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I've sprinkled more atomic_set's over utrace code to determine who is at
fault of first freeing. It seems to be

	rcu_utrace_free
	check_dead_utrace
	wake_quiscent
	utrace_detach

It was atomic_set(&utrace->debug, 42) right before wake_quiscent() call
and printk() in rcu_utrace_free() call. So it was 42 or garbage.

How I understand all this is that check_dead_utrace() can free struct
utrace, and don't clear ->utrace pointer.