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)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:05:20 +0000 (00:05 +0200)
commit1719bf67d6c52a9bc84ddf24a3e85d5f69fe3f90
treea11b527582b26f1f6d702fd37417f1afb4450bef
parent567d4fb42c192875472d0455e4f2ab5611088771
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
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
kernel/trace/trace.c