linux-kernel - [017/116] function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret

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Message-Id: <20100330225607.841045069@linux.site>
Date:	Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:54:55 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [017/116] function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stack

2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>

commit ea14eb714041d40fcc5180b5a586034503650149 upstream.

If the graph tracer is active, and a task is forked but the allocating of
the processes graph stack fails, it can cause crash later on.

This is due to the temporary stack being NULL, but the curr_ret_stack
variable is copied from the parent. If it is not -1, then in
ftrace_graph_probe_sched_switch() the following:

	for (index = next->curr_ret_stack; index >= 0; index--)
		next->ret_stack[index].calltime += timestamp;

Will cause a kernel OOPS.

Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -3258,6 +3258,7 @@ void ftrace_graph_init_task(struct task_
 {
 	/* Make sure we do not use the parent ret_stack */
 	t->ret_stack = NULL;
+	t->curr_ret_stack = -1;
 
 	if (ftrace_graph_active) {
 		struct ftrace_ret_stack *ret_stack;
@@ -3267,7 +3268,6 @@ void ftrace_graph_init_task(struct task_
 				GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!ret_stack)
 			return;
-		t->curr_ret_stack = -1;
 		atomic_set(&t->tracing_graph_pause, 0);
 		atomic_set(&t->trace_overrun, 0);
 		t->ftrace_timestamp = 0;


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