[PATCH 2/5] function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stack

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Mar 12 2010 - 22:00:11 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>

If the graph tracer is active, and a task is forked but the allocating of
the processes graph stack fails, it can cause crash later on.

This is due to the temporary stack being NULL, but the curr_ret_stack
variable is copied from the parent. If it is not -1, then in
ftrace_graph_probe_sched_switch() the following:

for (index = next->curr_ret_stack; index >= 0; index--)
next->ret_stack[index].calltime += timestamp;

Will cause a kernel OOPS.

Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index d4d1238..bb53edb 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -3349,6 +3349,7 @@ void ftrace_graph_init_task(struct task_struct *t)
{
/* Make sure we do not use the parent ret_stack */
t->ret_stack = NULL;
+ t->curr_ret_stack = -1;

if (ftrace_graph_active) {
struct ftrace_ret_stack *ret_stack;
@@ -3358,7 +3359,6 @@ void ftrace_graph_init_task(struct task_struct *t)
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ret_stack)
return;
- t->curr_ret_stack = -1;
atomic_set(&t->tracing_graph_pause, 0);
atomic_set(&t->trace_overrun, 0);
t->ftrace_timestamp = 0;
--
1.7.0


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