3.6.11.2 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" [ Upstream commit 69d34da2984c95b33ea21518227e1f9470f11d95 ] Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted. Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing to also protect the flags being set. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 0293d9a..06b227d 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -2819,6 +2819,8 @@ tracing_trace_options_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, cmp += 2; } + mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock); + for (i = 0; trace_options[i]; i++) { if (strcmp(cmp, trace_options[i]) == 0) { set_tracer_flags(1 << i, !neg); @@ -2827,13 +2829,10 @@ tracing_trace_options_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, } /* If no option could be set, test the specific tracer options */ - if (!trace_options[i]) { - mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock); + if (!trace_options[i]) ret = set_tracer_option(current_trace, cmp, neg); - mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock); - if (ret) - return ret; - } + + mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock); *ppos += cnt; @@ -4613,7 +4612,10 @@ trace_options_core_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt, if (val != 0 && val != 1) return -EINVAL; + + mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock); set_tracer_flags(1 << index, val); + mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock); *ppos += cnt; -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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/