[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 1/4] tracing: Add NULL checks for buffer in ring_buffer_free_read_page()

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Wed Mar 01 2023 - 11:31:23 EST


From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 3e4272b9954094907f16861199728f14002fcaf6 ]

In a previous commit 7433632c9ff6, buffer, buffer->buffers and
buffer->buffers[cpu] in ring_buffer_wake_waiters() can be NULL,
and thus the related checks are added.

However, in the same call stack, these variables are also used in
ring_buffer_free_read_page():

tracing_buffers_release()
ring_buffer_wake_waiters(iter->array_buffer->buffer)
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu] -> Add checks by previous commit
ring_buffer_free_read_page(iter->array_buffer->buffer)
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu] -> No check

Thus, to avod possible null-pointer derefernces, the related checks
should be added.

These results are reported by a static tool designed by myself.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113125501.760324-1-baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx

Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 11e8189dd8ae9..58809fffc8171 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -4769,11 +4769,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_alloc_read_page);
*/
void ring_buffer_free_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, void *data)
{
- struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
+ struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
struct buffer_data_page *bpage = data;
struct page *page = virt_to_page(bpage);
unsigned long flags;

+ if (!buffer || !buffer->buffers || !buffer->buffers[cpu])
+ return;
+
+ cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
+
/* If the page is still in use someplace else, we can't reuse it */
if (page_ref_count(page) > 1)
goto out;
--
2.39.2