[PATCH 5.6 066/118] tracing/kprobes: Reject new event if loc is NULL

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 5b4dcd2d201a395ad4054067bfae4a07554fbd65 upstream.

Reject the new event which has NULL location for kprobes.
For kprobes, user must specify at least the location.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779376597.6082.1411212055469099461.stgit@devnote2

Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 2a588dd1d5d6 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation functions")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -940,6 +940,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kprobe_event_cmd_init)
  * complete command or only the first part of it; in the latter case,
  * kprobe_event_add_fields() can be used to add more fields following this.
  *
+ * Unlikely the synth_event_gen_cmd_start(), @loc must be specified. This
+ * returns -EINVAL if @loc == NULL.
+ *
  * Return: 0 if successful, error otherwise.
  */
 int __kprobe_event_gen_cmd_start(struct dynevent_cmd *cmd, bool kretprobe,
@@ -953,6 +956,9 @@ int __kprobe_event_gen_cmd_start(struct
 	if (cmd->type != DYNEVENT_TYPE_KPROBE)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (!loc)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (kretprobe)
 		snprintf(buf, MAX_EVENT_NAME_LEN, "r:kprobes/%s", name);
 	else