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[for-next][PATCH 6/8] tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile

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  [for-next][PATCH 6/8] tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-03-19 15:20 +0100

#1361113 — [for-next][PATCH 6/8] tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile

From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.30+
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 0ae46048f724..cb2b708e4ea7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4954,7 +4954,10 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct file *filp,
 
 	spd.nr_pages = i;
 
-	ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
+	if (i)
+		ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
+	else
+		ret = 0;
 out:
 	splice_shrink_spd(&spd);
 	return ret;
-- 
2.7.0

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