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From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	jaswinder@kernel.org, jaswinderrajput@gmail.com,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:tracing/ftrace] tracing: fix oops in tracepoint_update_probe_range()
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:33:26 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-7d1832698e6e422cc2cf0d80b9c50ca567e758a3@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237394936.3132.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Commit-ID:  7d1832698e6e422cc2cf0d80b9c50ca567e758a3
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/7d1832698e6e422cc2cf0d80b9c50ca567e758a3
Author:     Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:18:56 +0530
Commit:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:30:43 +0100

tracing: fix oops in tracepoint_update_probe_range()

Change this crash:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
 IP: [<ffffffff8107d4de>] tracepoint_update_probe_range+0x1f/0x9b
 PGD 13d5fb067 PUD 13d688067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

To a more debuggable WARN_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237394936.3132.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
[ moved the check outside the lock and added a WARN_ON(). ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
 kernel/tracepoint.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 7960274..8bc1a06 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -272,12 +272,17 @@ static void disable_tracepoint(struct tracepoint *elem)
  *
  * Updates the probe callback corresponding to a range of tracepoints.
  */
-void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin,
-	struct tracepoint *end)
+void
+tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin, struct tracepoint *end)
 {
 	struct tracepoint *iter;
 	struct tracepoint_entry *mark_entry;
 
+	if (!iter) {
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	mutex_lock(&tracepoints_mutex);
 	for (iter = begin; iter < end; iter++) {
 		mark_entry = get_tracepoint(iter->name);

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-18 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-18 16:23 [oops -tip] : x86 AMD 64 Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-18 16:35 ` oops in tracepoint_update_probe_range() (was: Re: [oops -tip] : x86 AMD 64) Ingo Molnar
2009-03-18 16:41   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-18 16:48   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-18 16:54     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-18 16:56     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-18 17:27       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-18 17:33         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-18 17:33     ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput [this message]
2009-03-18 17:38       ` [tip:tracing/ftrace] tracing: fix oops in tracepoint_update_probe_range() Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-18 17:52         ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-18 17:51     ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-18 17:56       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-18 18:00         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-18 18:12           ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-18 19:35             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-18 18:58         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-18 19:04           ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-18 17:57     ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-18 18:57     ` [tip:tracing/ftrace] tracepoints: dont update zero-sized tracepoint sections Ingo Molnar
2009-03-19  7:18   ` oops in tracepoint_update_probe_range() Lai Jiangshan
2009-03-19  7:46     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-19  9:41       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-19 13:22       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-19 13:34         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-19 14:03           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-19 15:50           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-19 16:00             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-19 16:20               ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-23  5:18                 ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-19 15:42         ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput

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