Currently kdb's ftdump command unconditionally crashes due to a null pointer de-reference whenever the command is run. This in turn causes the kernel to panic.
The abridged stacktrace (gathered with ARCH=arm) is: -~- cut here -~- [<c09535ac>] (panic) from [<c02132dc>] (die+0x264/0x440) [<c02132dc>] (die) from [<c0952eb8>] (__do_kernel_fault.part.11+0x74/0x84) [<c0952eb8>] (__do_kernel_fault.part.11) from [<c021f954>] (do_page_fault+0x1d0/0x3c4) [<c021f954>] (do_page_fault) from [<c020846c>] (do_DataAbort+0x48/0xac)
[<c020846c>] (do_DataAbort) from [<c0213c58>] (__dabt_svc+0x38/0x60) Exception stack(0xc0deba88 to 0xc0debad0) ba80: e8c29180 00000001 e9854304 e9854300 c0f567d8 c0df2580 baa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 c0f117b8 c0e3a3c0 c0debb0c 00000000 c0debad0 bac0: 0000672e c02f4d60 60000193 ffffffff [<c0213c58>] (__dabt_svc) from [<c02f4d60>] (kdb_ftdump+0x1e4/0x3d8) [<c02f4d60>] (kdb_ftdump) from [<c02ce328>] (kdb_parse+0x2b8/0x698) [<c02ce328>] (kdb_parse) from [<c02ceef0>] (kdb_main_loop+0x52c/0x784) [<c02ceef0>] (kdb_main_loop) from [<c02d1b0c>] (kdb_stub+0x238/0x490) -~- cut here -~-
The NULL deref occurs due to the initialized use of struct trace_iter's buffer_iter member.
This is a regression, albeit a fairly elderly one. It was introduced by commit 6d158a813efc ("tracing: Remove NR_CPUS array from trace_iterator").
This patch solves this by providing a collection of ring_buffer_iter(s) and using this to initialize buffer_iter. Note that static allocation is used solely because the trace_iter itself is also static allocated. Static allocation also means that we have to NULL-ify the pointer during cleanup to avoid use-after-free problems.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson daniel.thompson@linaro.org Cc: Jason Wessel jason.wessel@windriver.com Cc: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@redhat.com --- kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c index bd90e1b06088..8faa7ce58814 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c @@ -20,10 +20,12 @@ static void ftrace_dump_buf(int skip_lines, long cpu_file) { /* use static because iter can be a bit big for the stack */ static struct trace_iterator iter; + static struct ring_buffer_iter *buffer_iter[CONFIG_NR_CPUS]; unsigned int old_userobj; int cnt = 0, cpu;
trace_init_global_iter(&iter); + iter.buffer_iter = buffer_iter;
for_each_tracing_cpu(cpu) { atomic_inc(&per_cpu_ptr(iter.trace_buffer->data, cpu)->disabled); @@ -86,9 +88,12 @@ out: atomic_dec(&per_cpu_ptr(iter.trace_buffer->data, cpu)->disabled); }
- for_each_tracing_cpu(cpu) - if (iter.buffer_iter[cpu]) + for_each_tracing_cpu(cpu) { + if (iter.buffer_iter[cpu]) { ring_buffer_read_finish(iter.buffer_iter[cpu]); + iter.buffer_iter[cpu] = NULL; + } + } }
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