From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
stable-review@kernel.org, Slava Pestov <slavapestov@google.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Stable-review] [PATCH 20/23] tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:38:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297733919.3104.126.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297733613.23343.92.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
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On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 20:33 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 23:14 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 00:23 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > 2.6.27.58-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Slava Pestov <slavapestov@google.com>
> > >
> > > commit 364829b1263b44aa60383824e4c1289d83d78ca7 upstream.
> > >
> > > The file_ops struct for the "trace" special file defined llseek as seq_lseek().
> > > However, if the file was opened for writing only, seq_open() was not called,
> > > and the seek would dereference a null pointer, file->private_data.
> > >
> > > This patch introduces a new wrapper for seq_lseek() which checks if the file
> > > descriptor is opened for reading first. If not, it does nothing.
> > [...]
> > > --- longterm-2.6.27.orig/kernel/trace/trace.c 2011-01-23 10:52:37.000000000 +0100
> > > +++ longterm-2.6.27/kernel/trace/trace.c 2011-01-29 11:42:07.287067215 +0100
> > > @@ -2041,17 +2041,25 @@
> > > return ret;
> > > }
> > >
> > > +static loff_t tracing_seek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
> > [...]
> > > + .llseek = tracing_lseek,
> > [...]
> > > + .llseek = tracing_lseek,
> > [...]
> >
> > These names don't agree!
>
> What don't they agree on?
Whether seek is spelt with an 'l'...
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 00/23] 2.6.27.58-longterm review Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 01/23] ALSA: hda: Use model=lg quirk for LG P1 Express to enable playback and capture Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 02/23] ALSA: hda: Use LPIB for Dell Latitude 131L Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 03/23] ALSA: hda: Use LPIB quirk for Dell Inspiron m101z/1120 Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 04/23] USB: usb-storage: unusual_devs entry for the Samsung YP-CP3 Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 05/23] USB: misc: uss720.c: add another vendor/product ID Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 06/23] HID: hidraw: fix window in hidraw_release Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:22 ` [PATCH 07/23] hwmon: (adm1026) Allow 1 as a valid divider value Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 08/23] hwmon: (adm1026) Fix setting fan_div Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 09/23] IB/uverbs: Handle large number of entries in poll CQ Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 10/23] mv_xor: fix race in tasklet function Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 11/23] md: fix bug with re-adding of partially recovered device Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 12/23] NFS: Fix fcntl F_GETLK not reporting some conflicts Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 13/23] nfsd: Fix possible BUG_ON firing in set_change_info Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 14/23] PM / Hibernate: Fix PM_POST_* notification with user-space suspend Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 15/23] posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 16/23] sctp: Fix a race between ICMP protocol unreachable and connect() Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 17/23] sound: Prevent buffer overflow in OSS load_mixer_volumes Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 18/23] sunrpc: prevent use-after-free on clearing XPT_BUSY Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 19/23] x86, gcc-4.6: Use gcc -m options when building vdso Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 20/23] tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing Willy Tarreau
2011-02-14 23:14 ` [Stable-review] " Ben Hutchings
2011-02-15 1:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-15 1:38 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-02-15 2:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-15 5:39 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 21/23] hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove Willy Tarreau
2011-02-07 21:16 ` Anton Blanchard
2011-02-07 22:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 22/23] hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove, again Willy Tarreau
2011-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH 23/23] install_special_mapping skips security_file_mmap check Willy Tarreau
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