[DTrace-devel] [PATCH] Guard against inserting the same provider twice

[Kris Van Hees]

Minor nit below...

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 05:22:51PM -0500, eugene.loh at oracle.com wrote:
> From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
> 
> Add a safety net to dt_provider_create(), to check if a specified
> provider has already been inserted.
> 
> This also requires a corresponding change in dt_provider_lookup(), so
> that it will work even if no providers have yet been inserted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
> ---
>  libdtrace/dt_provider.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/libdtrace/dt_provider.c b/libdtrace/dt_provider.c
> index 848fdc132..9d75225fa 100644
> --- a/libdtrace/dt_provider.c
> +++ b/libdtrace/dt_provider.c
> @@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ dt_provider_lookup(dtrace_hdl_t *dtp, const char *name)
>  		return NULL;
>  
>  	strcpy(tmpl.desc.dtvd_name, name);
> +	if (dtp->dt_provs == NULL)
> +		return NULL;

This should be moved as the first conditional in the function, because we
want to return immediately if there is no dtp->dt_provs yet.

>  	return dt_htab_lookup(dtp->dt_provs, &tmpl);
>  }
>  
> @@ -124,6 +126,10 @@ dt_provider_create(dtrace_hdl_t *dtp, const char *name,
>  {
>  	dt_provider_t *pvp;
>  
> +	pvp = dt_provider_lookup(dtp, name);
> +	if (pvp)
> +		return pvp;
> +
>  	if ((pvp = dt_zalloc(dtp, sizeof(dt_provider_t))) == NULL)
>  		goto nomem;
>  
> -- 
> 2.47.3
>