tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile

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>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 0ae4604..cb2b708 100644 (file)
--- 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;