Menglong Dong <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/fprobe.c b/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
> index fb127fa95f21..fece0f849c1c 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
> @@ -269,7 +269,9 @@ static int fprobe_entry(struct ftrace_graph_ent *trace, 
> struct fgraph_ops *gops,
>        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!fregs))
>                return 0;
> 
> +       rcu_read_lock();
>        head = rhltable_lookup(&fprobe_ip_table, &func, fprobe_rht_params);
> +       rcu_read_unlock();
>        reserved_words = 0;
>        rhl_for_each_entry_rcu(node, pos, head, hlist) {
>                if (node->addr != func)

Actually this isn't quite right.  I know that it is a false-positive
so that it's actually safe, but if you're going to mark it with
rcu_read_lock, it should cover both the lookup as well as the
dereference which happens in the loop rhl_for_each_entry_rcu.

Thanks,
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