From: Frederic Weisbecker Impact: fix a crash while cat trace file Currently we are using a cpumask to remind each cpu where a trace occured. It lets us notice the user that a cpu just had its first trace. But on latest -tip we have the following crash once we cat the trace file: IP: [] print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP last sysfs file: /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier Pid: 3897, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.29-tip-02825-g0f22972-dirty #81) EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010297 CPU: 0 EIP is at print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c12d9e98 EDX: ccdb7010 ESI: d31f4000 EDI: 00322401 EBP: d31f3f10 ESP: d31f3efc DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 Process cat (pid: 3897, ti=d31f2000 task=d3b3cf20 task.ti=d31f2000) Stack: d31f4080 ccdb7010 d31f4000 d691fe70 ccdb7010 d31f3f24 c0270e5c d31f4000 d691fe70 d31f4000 d31f3f34 c02718e8 c12d9e98 d691fe70 d31f3f70 c02bfc33 00001000 09130000 d3b46e00 d691fe98 00000000 00000079 00000001 00000000 Call Trace: [] ? print_trace_line+0x170/0x17c [] ? s_show+0xa7/0xbd [] ? seq_read+0x24a/0x327 [] ? seq_read+0x0/0x327 [] ? vfs_read+0x86/0xe1 [] ? sys_read+0x40/0x65 [] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3c Code: 00 00 00 89 45 ec f7 c7 00 20 00 00 89 55 f0 74 4e f6 86 98 10 00 00 02 74 45 8b 86 8c 10 00 00 8b 9e a8 10 00 00 e8 52 f3 ff ff <0f> a3 03 19 c0 85 c0 75 2b 8b 86 8c 10 00 00 8b 9e a8 10 00 00 EIP: [] print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7 SS:ESP 0068:d31f3efc CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace aa9cf38e5ebed9dd ]--- This is because we alloc the iter->started cpumask on tracing_pipe_open but not on tracing_open. It hadn't been noticed until now because we need to have ring buffer overruns to activate the starting of cpu buffer detection. Also, we need a check to not print the messagge for the first trace on the file. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <1238619188-6109-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index d64a162..b0cec4c 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -1623,7 +1623,11 @@ static void test_cpu_buff_start(struct trace_iterator *iter) return; cpumask_set_cpu(iter->cpu, iter->started); - trace_seq_printf(s, "##### CPU %u buffer started ####\n", iter->cpu); + + /* Don't print started cpu buffer for the first entry of the trace */ + if (iter->idx > 1) + trace_seq_printf(s, "##### CPU %u buffer started ####\n", + iter->cpu); } static enum print_line_t print_trace_fmt(struct trace_iterator *iter) @@ -1858,6 +1862,11 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) if (current_trace) *iter->trace = *current_trace; + if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&iter->started, GFP_KERNEL)) + goto fail; + + cpumask_clear(iter->started); + if (current_trace && current_trace->print_max) iter->tr = &max_tr; else @@ -1908,6 +1917,7 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) if (iter->buffer_iter[cpu]) ring_buffer_read_finish(iter->buffer_iter[cpu]); } + free_cpumask_var(iter->started); fail: mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock); kfree(iter->trace); @@ -1951,6 +1961,7 @@ static int tracing_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) seq_release(inode, file); mutex_destroy(&iter->mutex); + free_cpumask_var(iter->started); kfree(iter->trace); kfree(iter); return 0; -- 1.6.2.1 -- -- 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/