Re: [tip:tracing/ftrace] tracing: fix oops intracepoint_update_probe_range()

From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Date: Wed Mar 18 2009 - 13:40:26 EST


On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:33 +0000, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> Commit-ID: 7d1832698e6e422cc2cf0d80b9c50ca567e758a3
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7d1832698e6e422cc2cf0d80b9c50ca567e758a3
> Author: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:18:56 +0530
> Commit: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:30:43 +0100
>
> tracing: fix oops in tracepoint_update_probe_range()
>
> Change this crash:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
> IP: [<ffffffff8107d4de>] tracepoint_update_probe_range+0x1f/0x9b
> PGD 13d5fb067 PUD 13d688067 PMD 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>
> To a more debuggable WARN_ONCE().
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> LKML-Reference: <1237394936.3132.1.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [ moved the check outside the lock and added a WARN_ON(). ]
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>
>
> ---
> kernel/tracepoint.c | 9 +++++++--
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> index 7960274..8bc1a06 100644
> --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
> +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> @@ -272,12 +272,17 @@ static void disable_tracepoint(struct tracepoint *elem)
> *
> * Updates the probe callback corresponding to a range of tracepoints.
> */
> -void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin,
> - struct tracepoint *end)
> +void
> +tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin, struct tracepoint *end)
> {
> struct tracepoint *iter;
> struct tracepoint_entry *mark_entry;
>
> + if (!iter) {
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> + goto out;
> + }
> +

There is no out, it should be :

+ if (!iter) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ return;
+ }
+


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