2.6.37-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Li Zefan <[email protected]>

commit 1dbd1951f39e13da579ffe879cce19586d0462de upstream.

While running my ftrace stress test, this showed up:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/mmap.c:233
...
note: cat[3293] exited with preempt_count 1

The bug was introduced by commit 91e86e560d0b3ce4c5fc64fd2bbb99f856a30a4e
("tracing: Fix recursive user stack trace")

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1313,12 +1313,10 @@ ftrace_trace_userstack(struct ring_buffe
 
        __this_cpu_inc(user_stack_count);
 
-
-
        event = trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_USER_STACK,
                                          sizeof(*entry), flags, pc);
        if (!event)
-               return;
+               goto out_drop_count;
        entry   = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
 
        entry->tgid             = current->tgid;
@@ -1333,8 +1331,8 @@ ftrace_trace_userstack(struct ring_buffe
        if (!filter_check_discard(call, entry, buffer, event))
                ring_buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
 
+ out_drop_count:
        __this_cpu_dec(user_stack_count);
-
  out:
        preempt_enable();
 }


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