The patch below does not apply to the 3.0-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From ed5467da0e369e65b247b99eb6403cb79172bcda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 21:16:43 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix fields of struct trace_iterator that are zeroed by mistake tracing_read_pipe zeros all fields bellow "seq". The declaration contains a comment about that, but it doesn't help. The first field is "snapshot", it's true when current open file is snapshot. Looks obvious, that it should not be zeroed. The second field is "started". It was converted from cpumask_t to cpumask_var_t (v2.6.28-4983-g4462344), in other words it was converted from cpumask to pointer on cpumask. Currently the reference on "started" memory is lost after the first read from tracing_read_pipe and a proper object will never be freed. The "started" is never dereferenced for trace_pipe, because trace_pipe can't have the TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE options. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 2.6.30 Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h index f98ab06..120d57a 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ struct trace_iterator { /* trace_seq for __print_flags() and __print_symbolic() etc. */ struct trace_seq tmp_seq; + cpumask_var_t started; + + /* it's true when current open file is snapshot */ + bool snapshot; + /* The below is zeroed out in pipe_read */ struct trace_seq seq; struct trace_entry *ent; @@ -90,10 +95,7 @@ struct trace_iterator { loff_t pos; long idx; - cpumask_var_t started; - - /* it's true when current open file is snapshot */ - bool snapshot; + /* All new field here will be zeroed out in pipe_read */ }; enum trace_iter_flags { diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 882ec1d..f5b35a5 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -4151,6 +4151,7 @@ waitagain: memset(&iter->seq, 0, sizeof(struct trace_iterator) - offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq)); + cpumask_clear(iter->started); iter->pos = -1; trace_event_read_lock(); -- 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