tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile
authorSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:46:48 +0000 (15:46 -0400)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:42:47 +0000 (10:42 +0200)
commit3f3f1fce3c1af5720308ec83a3d2ffb328a028aa
tree9247387acb276086b4a4638917a39334671bc7dd
parente5509925495c66013d6985d7823f947540b9ceb0
tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile

commit a29054d9478d0435ab01b7544da4f674ab13f533 upstream.

If tracing contains data and the trace_pipe file is read with sendfile(),
then it can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and various BUG_ON within the
VM code.

There's a patch to fix this in the splice_to_pipe() code, but it's also a
good idea to not let that happen from trace_pipe either.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457641146-9068-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.30+
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
kernel/trace/trace.c