From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" There's a small race when function graph shutsdown and the calling of the registered function graph entry callback. The callback must not reference the task's ret_stack without first checking that it is not NULL. Note, when a ret_stack is allocated for a task, it stays allocated until the task exits. The problem here, is that function_graph is shutdown, and a new task was created, which doesn't have its ret_stack allocated. But since some of the functions are still being traced, the callbacks can still be called. The normal function_graph code handles this, but starting with commit 8861dd303c ("ftrace: Access ret_stack->subtime only in the function profiler") the profiler code references the ret_stack on function entry, but doesn't check if it is NULL first. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196611 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8861dd303c ("ftrace: Access ret_stack->subtime only in the function profiler") Reported-by: lilydjwg@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 02004ae91860..96cea88fa00f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -889,6 +889,10 @@ static int profile_graph_entry(struct ftrace_graph_ent *trace) function_profile_call(trace->func, 0, NULL, NULL); + /* If function graph is shutting down, ret_stack can be NULL */ + if (!current->ret_stack) + return 0; + if (index >= 0 && index < FTRACE_RETFUNC_DEPTH) current->ret_stack[index].subtime = 0; -- 2.13.2