linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] ext4 trace events cause NULL pointer dereferences

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Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:45:08 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] ext4 trace events cause NULL pointer dereferences

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 22:31 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> Hi Steven,
> 
>>         if (ac)
>> 	        trace_ext4_mb_release_group_pa(ac, pa);
>>
>> But, I don't think this is proper fix because we don't want any overhead
>> if the tracepoint is disabled.
>>
>> So, How do we check NULL in TP_fast_assign()?
> 
> You could do:
> 
> 	TP_fast_assign(
> 		if (ac) {
> 	                __entry->dev            = ac->ac_sb->s_dev;
>         	        __entry->ino            = ac->ac_inode->i_ino;
>         	        __entry->pa_pstart      = pa->pa_pstart;
>         	        __entry->pa_len         = pa->pa_len;
> 		}

This leaves __entry->dev etc as arbitrary value, since the entry returned
by the ring buffer is not zeroed, so I think better add an else branch to
zero those values.

>         ),
> 
> But this just makes the __entry null and wastes the ring buffer.
> 
> I may be able to add a __discard_entry that may help. Then we could do
> something like this:
> 
> 	if (ac) {
>                 __entry->dev            = ac->ac_sb->s_dev;
>                 __entry->ino            = ac->ac_inode->i_ino;
>                 __entry->pa_pstart      = pa->pa_pstart;
>                 __entry->pa_len         = pa->pa_len;
> 	} else
> 		__discard_entry;
> 
> Does this seem reasonable?
> 
> But for now, the wasting the entry seems to be the only choice we have,
> or to do as you suggested and have the "if (ac) trace_...", but I don't
> like that.
> 

As I was (and still am) not sure what is the best fix, I decided
to send out a bug report instead of a patch..
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