[added to the 3.18 stable tree] tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile

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From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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[ Upstream commit a29054d9478d0435ab01b7544da4f674ab13f533 ]

If tracing contains data and the trace_pipe file is read with sendfile(),
then it can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and various BUG_ON within the
VM code.

There's a patch to fix this in the splice_to_pipe() code, but it's also a
good idea to not let that happen from trace_pipe either.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457641146-9068-1-git-send-email-rabin@xxxxxx

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 2.6.30+
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 72c7134..2d5909f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4679,7 +4679,10 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct file *filp,
 
 	spd.nr_pages = i;
 
-	ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
+	if (i)
+		ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
+	else
+		ret = 0;
 out:
 	splice_shrink_spd(&spd);
 	return ret;
-- 
2.5.0

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