[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ring-buffer: Fix NULL pointer if rb_set_head_page() fails" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

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

    ring-buffer: Fix NULL pointer if rb_set_head_page() fails

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.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-3.5.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From acec2b351ba58a30c7592bb91e937b7ae709b5ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:27:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix NULL pointer if rb_set_head_page() fails

commit 54f7be5b831254199522523ccab4c3d954bbf576 upstream.

The function rb_set_head_page() searches the list of ring buffer
pages for a the page that has the HEAD page flag set. If it does
not find it, it will do a WARN_ON(), disable the ring buffer and
return NULL, as this should never happen.

But if this bug happens to happen, not all callers of this function
can handle a NULL pointer being returned from it. That needs to be
fixed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index db6dff1..35bf8f7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1396,6 +1396,8 @@ rb_insert_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 		struct list_head *head_page_with_bit;

 		head_page = &rb_set_head_page(cpu_buffer)->list;
+		if (!head_page)
+			break;
 		prev_page = head_page->prev;

 		first_page = pages->next;
@@ -2934,7 +2936,7 @@ unsigned long ring_buffer_oldest_event_ts(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
 	struct buffer_page *bpage;
-	unsigned long ret;
+	unsigned long ret = 0;

 	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, buffer->cpumask))
 		return 0;
@@ -2949,7 +2951,8 @@ unsigned long ring_buffer_oldest_event_ts(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 		bpage = cpu_buffer->reader_page;
 	else
 		bpage = rb_set_head_page(cpu_buffer);
-	ret = bpage->page->time_stamp;
+	if (bpage)
+		ret = bpage->page->time_stamp;
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags);

 	return ret;
@@ -3256,6 +3259,8 @@ rb_get_reader_page(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 	 * Splice the empty reader page into the list around the head.
 	 */
 	reader = rb_set_head_page(cpu_buffer);
+	if (!reader)
+		goto out;
 	cpu_buffer->reader_page->list.next = rb_list_head(reader->list.next);
 	cpu_buffer->reader_page->list.prev = reader->list.prev;

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1.7.9.5