linux-kernel - [ 13/85] ring-buffer: Check for uninitialized cpu buffer before resizing

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Message-Id: <20121026000032.459789873@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:05:31 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [ 13/85] ring-buffer: Check for uninitialized cpu buffer before resizing

3.6-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com>

commit 8e49f418c9632790bf456634742d34d97120a784 upstream.

With a system where, num_present_cpus < num_possible_cpus, even if all
CPUs are online, non-present CPUs don't have per_cpu buffers allocated.
If per_cpu/<cpu>/buffer_size_kb is modified for such a CPU, it can cause
a panic due to NULL dereference in ring_buffer_resize().

To fix this, resize operation is allowed only if the per-cpu buffer has
been initialized.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349912427-6486-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1567,6 +1567,10 @@ int ring_buffer_resize(struct ring_buffe
 
 		put_online_cpus();
 	} else {
+		/* Make sure this CPU has been intitialized */
+		if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu_id, buffer->cpumask))
+			goto out;
+
 		cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu_id];
 
 		if (nr_pages == cpu_buffer->nr_pages)


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