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)
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:51:42 +0000 (15:51 -0400)
commita29054d9478d0435ab01b7544da4f674ab13f533
tree31360ad568f3004066f220cb8a4b16a0489c85a5
parentcb86e05390debcc084cfdb0a71ed4c5dbbec517d
tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile

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>
kernel/trace/trace.c