From: Steven Rostedt The result of the allocation of the ring buffer read page in the ring buffer bench mark does not check the return to see if a page was actually allocated. This patch fixes that. [ Impact: avoid NULL dereference ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c index 747244a..dcd75e9 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c @@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ static enum event_status read_page(int cpu) int i; bpage = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(buffer); + if (!bpage) + return EVENT_DROPPED; + ret = ring_buffer_read_page(buffer, &bpage, PAGE_SIZE, cpu, 1); if (ret >= 0) { rpage = bpage; -- 1.6.2.4 -- -- 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/