Patch "tracing: Handle NULL formats in hold_module_trace_bprintk_format()" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tracing: Handle NULL formats in hold_module_trace_bprintk_format()

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tracing-handle-null-formats-in-hold_module_trace_bprintk_format.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 70c8217acd4383e069fe1898bbad36ea4fcdbdcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:10:42 -0400
Subject: tracing: Handle NULL formats in hold_module_trace_bprintk_format()

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

commit 70c8217acd4383e069fe1898bbad36ea4fcdbdcc upstream.

If a task uses a non constant string for the format parameter in
trace_printk(), then the trace_printk_fmt variable is set to NULL. This
variable is then saved in the __trace_printk_fmt section.

The function hold_module_trace_bprintk_format() checks to see if duplicate
formats are used by modules, and reuses them if so (saves them to the list
if it is new). But this function calls lookup_format() that does a strcmp()
to the value (which is now NULL) and can cause a kernel oops.

This wasn't an issue till 3debb0a9ddb ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print
when not using bprintk()") which added "__used" to the trace_printk_fmt
variable, and before that, the kernel simply optimized it out (no NULL value
was saved).

The fix is simply to handle the NULL pointer in lookup_format() and have the
caller ignore the value if it was NULL.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464769870-18344-1-git-send-email-zhengjun.xing@intel.com

Reported-by: xingzhen <zhengjun.xing@intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fixes: 3debb0a9ddb ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/trace/trace_printk.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ struct trace_bprintk_fmt {
 static inline struct trace_bprintk_fmt *lookup_format(const char *fmt)
 {
 	struct trace_bprintk_fmt *pos;
+
+	if (!fmt)
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
 	list_for_each_entry(pos, &trace_bprintk_fmt_list, list) {
 		if (!strcmp(pos->fmt, fmt))
 			return pos;
@@ -57,7 +61,8 @@ void hold_module_trace_bprintk_format(co
 	for (iter = start; iter < end; iter++) {
 		struct trace_bprintk_fmt *tb_fmt = lookup_format(*iter);
 		if (tb_fmt) {
-			*iter = tb_fmt->fmt;
+			if (!IS_ERR(tb_fmt))
+				*iter = tb_fmt->fmt;
 			continue;
 		}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@goodmis.org are

queue-4.6/kprobes-x86-clear-tf-bit-in-fault-on-single-stepping.patch
queue-4.6/tracing-handle-null-formats-in-hold_module_trace_bprintk_format.patch