3.2.80-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit a29054d9478d0435ab01b7544da4f674ab13f533 upstream. 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 Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -3565,7 +3565,10 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe( 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; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html