From: Steven Rostedt If the contents of the ftrace ring buffer gets corrupted and the trace file is read, it could create a kernel oops (usualy just killing the user task thread). This is caused by the checking of the pid in the buffer. If the pid is negative, it still references the cmdline cache array, which could point to an invalid address. The simple fix is to test for negative PIDs. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 0df1b0f..eac6875 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -951,6 +951,11 @@ void trace_find_cmdline(int pid, char comm[]) return; } + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(pid < 0)) { + strcpy(comm, ""); + return; + } + if (pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT) { strcpy(comm, "<...>"); return; -- 1.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/