From bcabd91c271e50eebc0cb9220ac92700332b452e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:52:35 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereference Try this, and you'll see NULL pointer dereference bug: # echo -n 'parent_comm ==' > sched/sched_process_fork/filter Because we passed NULL ptr to simple_strtoull(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Tom Zanussi Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <49E04C43.1050504@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c index 026be41..9d2162f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c @@ -410,6 +410,11 @@ int filter_parse(char **pbuf, struct filter_pred *pred) } } + if (!val_str) { + pred->field_name = NULL; + return -EINVAL; + } + pred->field_name = kstrdup(pred->field_name, GFP_KERNEL); if (!pred->field_name) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.7.4