linux-kernel - Re: [v3.2-v3.4 stable version][PATCH 1/2] ring-buffer: Fix NULL pointer if rb_set_head

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Date:	Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:09:58 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v3.2-v3.4 stable version][PATCH 1/2] ring-buffer: Fix NULL
 pointer if rb_set_head_page() fails

On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 13:44 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> The function rb_set_head_page() searches the list of ring buffer
> pages for a the page that has the HEAD page flag set. If it does
> not find it, it will do a WARN_ON(), disable the ring buffer and
> return NULL, as this should never happen.
> 
> But if this bug happens to happen, not all callers of this function
> can handle a NULL pointer being returned from it. That needs to be
> fixed.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 3.0+
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
[...]

Queued up for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

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