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tracing: Handle NULL formats in hold_module_trace_bprintk_format()

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If a task uses a non constant string for the format parameter in
trace_printk(), then the trace_printk_fmt variable is set to NULL. This
variable is then saved in the __trace_printk_fmt section.

The function hold_module_trace_bprintk_format() checks to see if duplicate
formats are used by modules, and reuses them if so (saves them to the list
if it is new). But this function calls lookup_format() that does a strcmp()
to the value (which is now NULL) and can cause a kernel oops.

This wasn't an issue till 3debb0a9dd ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print
when not using bprintk()") which added "__used" to the trace_printk_fmt
variable, and before that, the kernel simply optimized it out (no NULL value
was saved).

The fix is simply to handle the NULL pointer in lookup_format() and have the
caller ignore the value if it was NULL.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464769870-18344-1-git-send-email-zhengjun.xing@intel.com

Reported-by: xingzhen <zhengjun.xing@intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fixes: 3debb0a9dd ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 2016-06-17 16:10:42 -04:00 • committed by Steven Rostedt
parent 5edb56491d
commit 70c8217acd
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
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@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ struct trace_bprintk_fmt {
static inline struct trace_bprintk_fmt *lookup_format(const char *fmt)
{
struct trace_bprintk_fmt *pos;
if (!fmt)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
list_for_each_entry(pos, &trace_bprintk_fmt_list, list) {
if (!strcmp(pos->fmt, fmt))
return pos;
@ -57,7 +61,8 @@ void hold_module_trace_bprintk_format(const char **start, const char **end)
for (iter = start; iter < end; iter++) {
struct trace_bprintk_fmt *tb_fmt = lookup_format(*iter);
if (tb_fmt) {
*iter = tb_fmt->fmt;
if (!IS_ERR(tb_fmt))
*iter = tb_fmt->fmt;
continue;
}