[DTrace-devel] [PATCH v2] Guard against inserting the same provider twice

[Kris Van Hees]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 03:38:12PM -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>

Reviewed-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees at oracle.com>

> ---
>  libdtrace/dt_provider.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libdtrace/dt_provider.c b/libdtrace/dt_provider.c
> index 848fdc132..e073e1f2d 100644
> --- a/libdtrace/dt_provider.c
> +++ b/libdtrace/dt_provider.c
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  /*
>   * Oracle Linux DTrace.
> - * Copyright (c) 2006, 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> + * Copyright (c) 2006, 2026, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
>   * Licensed under the Universal Permissive License v 1.0 as shown at
>   * http://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl.
>   */
> @@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ dt_provider_lookup(dtrace_hdl_t *dtp, const char *name)
>  {
>  	dt_provider_t tmpl;
>  
> +	if (dtp->dt_provs == NULL)
> +		return NULL;
> +
>  	if ((strlen(name) + 1) > sizeof(tmpl.desc.dtvd_name))
>  		return NULL;
>  
> @@ -124,6 +127,10 @@ 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
>