This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing: Add NULL checks for buffer in ring_buffer_free_read_page() to the 4.19-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-add-null-checks-for-buffer-in-ring_buffer_fr.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 40d15c7450a0ca35ac1027855ad2927ac02e5ead Author: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 13 20:55:01 2023 +0800 tracing: Add NULL checks for buffer in ring_buffer_free_read_page() [ Upstream commit 3e4272b9954094907f16861199728f14002fcaf6 ] In a previous commit 7433632c9ff6, buffer, buffer->buffers and buffer->buffers[cpu] in ring_buffer_wake_waiters() can be NULL, and thus the related checks are added. However, in the same call stack, these variables are also used in ring_buffer_free_read_page(): tracing_buffers_release() ring_buffer_wake_waiters(iter->array_buffer->buffer) cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu] -> Add checks by previous commit ring_buffer_free_read_page(iter->array_buffer->buffer) cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu] -> No check Thus, to avod possible null-pointer derefernces, the related checks should be added. These results are reported by a static tool designed by myself. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113125501.760324-1-baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 5e5b0c067f611..bef3d01b8ff61 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -4685,11 +4685,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_alloc_read_page); */ void ring_buffer_free_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, void *data) { - struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; + struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer; struct buffer_data_page *bpage = data; struct page *page = virt_to_page(bpage); unsigned long flags; + if (!buffer || !buffer->buffers || !buffer->buffers[cpu]) + return; + + cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; + /* If the page is still in use someplace else, we can't reuse it */ if (page_ref_count(page) > 1) goto out;