If the graph tracer is active, and a task is forked but the allocating of
the processes graph stack fails, it can cause crash later on.
This is due to the temporary stack being NULL, but the curr_ret_stack
variable is copied from the parent. If it is not -1, then in
ftrace_graph_probe_sched_switch() the following:
for (index = next->curr_ret_stack; index >= 0; index--)
next->ret_stack[index].calltime += timestamp;
Will cause a kernel OOPS.
Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
{
/* Make sure we do not use the parent ret_stack */
t->ret_stack = NULL;
+ t->curr_ret_stack = -1;
if (ftrace_graph_active) {
struct ftrace_ret_stack *ret_stack;
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ret_stack)
return;
- t->curr_ret_stack = -1;
atomic_set(&t->tracing_graph_pause, 0);
atomic_set(&t->trace_overrun, 0);
t->ftrace_timestamp = 0;