[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "tracing: Allow events to have NULL strings" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tracing: Allow events to have NULL strings

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.15.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From e4d4adecdf085fe7380fed4cca2c7648fd8fea68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 09:22:54 -0500
Subject: tracing: Allow events to have NULL strings

commit 4e58e54754dc1fec21c3a9e824bc108b05fdf46e upstream.

If an TRACE_EVENT() uses __assign_str() or __get_str on a NULL pointer
then the following oops will happen:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
IP: [<c127a17b>] strlen+0x10/0x1a
*pde = 00000000 ^M
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.13.0-rc1-test+ #2
Hardware name:                  /DG965MQ, BIOS MQ96510J.86A.0372.2006.0605.1717 06/05/2006^M
task: f5cde9f0 ti: f5e5e000 task.ti: f5e5e000
EIP: 0060:[<c127a17b>] EFLAGS: 00210046 CPU: 1
EIP is at strlen+0x10/0x1a
EAX: 00000000 EBX: c2472da8 ECX: ffffffff EDX: c2472da8
ESI: c1c5e5fc EDI: 00000000 EBP: f5e5fe84 ESP: f5e5fe80
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000000 CR3: 01f32000 CR4: 000007d0
Stack:
 f5f18b90 f5e5feb8 c10687a8 0759004f 00000005 00000005 00000005 00200046
 00000002 00000000 c1082a93 f56c7e28 c2472da8 c1082a93 f5e5fee4 c106bc61^M
 00000000 c1082a93 00000000 00000000 00000001 00200046 00200082 00000000
Call Trace:
 [<c10687a8>] ftrace_raw_event_lock+0x39/0xc0
 [<c1082a93>] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [<c1082a93>] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [<c106bc61>] lock_release+0x57/0x1a5
 [<c1082a93>] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [<c10824dd>] read_seqcount_begin.constprop.7+0x4d/0x75
 [<c1082a93>] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69^M
 [<c1082a93>] ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [<c108a46a>] __tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x1e/0x426
 [<c10690e8>] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.19+0x48/0x4d
 [<c10bc184>] ? time_hardirqs_off+0xe/0x28
 [<c1068c82>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x3f/0xaf
 [<c108a8cb>] tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x59/0x62
 [<c1079242>] cpu_startup_entry+0x64/0x192
 [<c102299c>] start_secondary+0x277/0x27c
Code: 90 89 c6 89 d0 88 c4 ac 38 e0 74 09 84 c0 75 f7 be 01 00 00 00 89 f0 48 5e 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 66 66 66 66 90 83 c9 ff 89 c7 31 c0 <f2> ae f7 d1 8d 41 ff 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 66 66 66 66 90 31 ff
EIP: [<c127a17b>] strlen+0x10/0x1a SS:ESP 0068:f5e5fe80
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 01bc47bf519ec1b2 ]---

New tracepoints have been added that have allowed for NULL pointers
being assigned to strings. To fix this, change the TRACE_EVENT() code
to check for NULL and if it is, it will assign "(null)" to it instead
(similar to what glibc printf does).

Reported-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh at samsung.com>
Reported-by: Jovi Zhangwei <jovi.zhangwei at gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAGdX0WFeEuy+DtpsJzyzn0343qEEjLX97+o1VREFkUEhndC+5Q@mail.gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/528D6972.9010702@samsung.com
Fixes: 9cbf117662e2 ("tracing/events: provide string with undefined size support")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/trace/ftrace.h | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/trace/ftrace.h b/include/trace/ftrace.h
index 40dc5e8..17e6221 100644
--- a/include/trace/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/trace/ftrace.h
@@ -379,7 +379,8 @@ ftrace_define_fields_##call(struct ftrace_event_call *event_call)	\
 	__data_size += (len) * sizeof(type);

 #undef __string
-#define __string(item, src) __dynamic_array(char, item, strlen(src) + 1)
+#define __string(item, src) __dynamic_array(char, item,			\
+		    strlen((src) ? (const char *)(src) : "(null)") + 1)

 #undef DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS
 #define DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(call, proto, args, tstruct, assign, print)	\
@@ -504,7 +505,7 @@ static inline notrace int ftrace_get_offsets_##call(			\

 #undef __assign_str
 #define __assign_str(dst, src)						\
-	strcpy(__get_str(dst), src);
+	strcpy(__get_str(dst), (src) ? (const char *)(src) : "(null)");

 #undef TP_fast_assign
 #define TP_fast_assign(args...) args
--
1.8.3.2