[020/114] tracing: Fix an unallocated memory access in function_graph

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 19:01:49 EST


2.6.35-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 575570f02761bd680ba5731c1dfd4701062e7fb2 upstream.

With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, I observed an unallocated memory access in
function_graph trace. It appears we find a small size entry in ring buffer,
but we access it as a big size entry. The access overflows the page size
and touches an unallocated page.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1280217994.32400.76.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Added a comment to explain the problem - SDR ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c
@@ -507,7 +507,15 @@ get_return_for_leaf(struct trace_iterato
* if the output fails.
*/
data->ent = *curr;
- data->ret = *next;
+ /*
+ * If the next event is not a return type, then
+ * we only care about what type it is. Otherwise we can
+ * safely copy the entire event.
+ */
+ if (next->ent.type == TRACE_GRAPH_RET)
+ data->ret = *next;
+ else
+ data->ret.ent.type = next->ent.type;
}
}



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