commit 6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d
author Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Thu Apr 11 15:55:01 2013 +0900
committer Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Fri Apr 12 14:43:34 2013 -0400
tree 551f1c13779323e06b8ef906192ba7a5d87aa7b6
parent 83e03b3fe4daffdebbb42151d5410d730ae50bd1

tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences

Currently set_ftrace_pid and set_graph_function files use seq_lseek
for their fops.  However seq_open() is called only for FMODE_READ in
the fops->open() so that if an user tries to seek one of those file
when she open it for writing, it sees NULL seq_file and then panic.

It can be easily reproduced with following command:

  $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
  $ echo 1234 | sudo tee -a set_ftrace_pid

In this example, GNU coreutils' tee opens the file with fopen(, "a")
and then the fopen() internally calls lseek().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365663302-2170-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

include/linux/ftrace.h

diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index 167abf9..eb3ce32 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
 			    size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos);
 ssize_t ftrace_notrace_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
 			     size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos);
-loff_t ftrace_regex_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence);
+loff_t ftrace_filter_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence);
 int ftrace_regex_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
 
 void __init

kernel/trace/ftrace.c

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 926ebfb..affc35d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2697,7 +2697,7 @@
 }
 
 loff_t
-ftrace_regex_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
+ftrace_filter_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
 {
 	loff_t ret;
 
@@ -3570,7 +3570,7 @@
 	.open = ftrace_filter_open,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.write = ftrace_filter_write,
-	.llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+	.llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release = ftrace_regex_release,
 };
 
@@ -3578,7 +3578,7 @@
 	.open = ftrace_notrace_open,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.write = ftrace_notrace_write,
-	.llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+	.llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release = ftrace_regex_release,
 };
 
@@ -3783,8 +3783,8 @@
 	.open		= ftrace_graph_open,
 	.read		= seq_read,
 	.write		= ftrace_graph_write,
+	.llseek		= ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release	= ftrace_graph_release,
-	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
 };
 #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */
 
@@ -4439,7 +4439,7 @@
 	.open		= ftrace_pid_open,
 	.write		= ftrace_pid_write,
 	.read		= seq_read,
-	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
+	.llseek		= ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release	= ftrace_pid_release,
 };
 

kernel/trace/trace_stack.c

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index 42ca822..83a8b5b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
 	.open = stack_trace_filter_open,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.write = ftrace_filter_write,
-	.llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+	.llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release = ftrace_regex_release,
 };