[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences

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.
-Luis

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>From c7c55660cd82b336c0eff8ef679c292235527ac8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim at lge.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:55:01 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences

commit 6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d upstream.

Currently set_ftrace_pid and set_graph_function files use seq_lseek
for their fops.  However seq_open() is called only for FMODE_READ in
the fops->open() so that if an user tries to seek one of those file
when she open it for writing, it sees NULL seq_file and then panic.

It can be easily reproduced with following command:

  $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
  $ echo 1234 | sudo tee -a set_ftrace_pid

In this example, GNU coreutils' tee opens the file with fopen(, "a")
and then the fopen() internally calls lseek().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365663302-2170-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim at lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
[ luis: adjust context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/ftrace.h     |  2 +-
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c      | 10 +++++-----
 kernel/trace/trace_stack.c |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index 55e6d63..6ce7928 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ ssize_t ftrace_filter_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
 			    size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos);
 ssize_t ftrace_notrace_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
 			     size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos);
-loff_t ftrace_regex_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
+loff_t ftrace_filter_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 int ftrace_regex_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);

 void __init
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 7da46c7..f125532 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2594,7 +2594,7 @@ ftrace_notrace_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 }

 loff_t
-ftrace_regex_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
+ftrace_filter_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
 {
 	loff_t ret;

@@ -3413,7 +3413,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_filter_fops = {
 	.open = ftrace_filter_open,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.write = ftrace_filter_write,
-	.llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+	.llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release = ftrace_regex_release,
 };

@@ -3421,7 +3421,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_notrace_fops = {
 	.open = ftrace_notrace_open,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.write = ftrace_notrace_write,
-	.llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+	.llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release = ftrace_regex_release,
 };

@@ -3626,8 +3626,8 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_graph_fops = {
 	.open		= ftrace_graph_open,
 	.read		= seq_read,
 	.write		= ftrace_graph_write,
+	.llseek		= ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release	= ftrace_graph_release,
-	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
 };
 #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */

@@ -4254,7 +4254,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_pid_fops = {
 	.open		= ftrace_pid_open,
 	.write		= ftrace_pid_write,
 	.read		= seq_read,
-	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
+	.llseek		= ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release	= ftrace_pid_release,
 };

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index d4545f4..aa4270a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ static const struct file_operations stack_trace_filter_fops = {
 	.open = stack_trace_filter_open,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.write = ftrace_filter_write,
-	.llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+	.llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release = ftrace_regex_release,
 };

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