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tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile
authorSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:46:48 +0000 (15:46 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:08:59 +0000 (09:08 -0700)
commitaab3ba82f8445abe99f33e743e7316d0d55fee7b
tree6e9069d79eb2578a3d34d86c37e1acedf3388a91
parentaa60f652eeebb8345ed8c543d1a8d6b71f902de3
tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile

commit a29054d9478d0435ab01b7544da4f674ab13f533 upstream.

If tracing contains data and the trace_pipe file is read with sendfile(),
then it can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and various BUG_ON within the
VM code.

There's a patch to fix this in the splice_to_pipe() code, but it's also a
good idea to not let that happen from trace_pipe either.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457641146-9068-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/trace/trace.c