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If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Amit Machhiwal commit b3b974008388ab59e44d764ba7a63c988fec2524 upstream. If trace buffer allocation fails during early boot (e.g. in early_trace_init() -> allocate_trace_buffers()), tracing_disabled is left set to 1 and the global trace array events list remains uninitialized. Later during boot, tracer_init_tracefs() (invoked via fs_initcall) queues tracerfs_init_work asynchronously without checking if tracing was disabled. When tracer_init_tracefs_work_func() runs, it calls event_trace_init() and init_tracer_tracefs(&global_trace, NULL) unconditionally. This leads to __find_event_file() dereferencing an uninitialized tr->events list, causing an early boot NULL pointer dereference Oops: BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000010 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000485be0 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 7 [#1] ... NIP [c000000000485be0] __find_event_file+0x70/0x3c0 LR [c000000000448874] init_tracer_tracefs+0x274/0xc80 Call Trace: init_tracer_tracefs+0x274/0xc80 tracer_init_tracefs_work_func+0x50/0x320 process_one_work+0x1e8/0x5c0 worker_thread+0x1dc/0x3d0 kthread+0x194/0x1b0 start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18 Check tracing_disabled at the beginning of tracer_init_tracefs_work_func() and return immediately if tracing is disabled or failed to initialize, preventing the crash. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6621a7004684 ("tracing: make tracer_init_tracefs initcall asynchronous") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261009163557.88467-2-amachhiw@linux.ibm.com Reported-by: Michal Suchánek Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/arYskzbiaNzBR9MD@kunlun.suse.cz/ Signed-off-by: Amit Machhiwal Tested-by: Michal Suchánek Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -10005,6 +10005,12 @@ static struct notifier_block trace_modul static __init void tracer_init_tracefs_work_func(struct work_struct *work) { + /* + * Do not attempt to initialize tracefs if tracing was disabled or + * failed to allocate + */ + if (tracing_disabled) + return; event_trace_init();