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)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:51:05 +0000 (08:51 -0400)
commitab31b690cdf88cf5cb0493718b89dbc37dd784a3
tree0aca0964ed3d00fd918a440f7a46b3d2a70ab91e
parente4fc9a7c67d779795033235a2b5d2c84e39424c2
tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile

[ Upstream commit a29054d9478d0435ab01b7544da4f674ab13f533 ]

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: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
kernel/trace/trace.c