[PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] tracing: Fix event null strings and function graph with modules

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Nov 26 2013 - 20:40:06 EST


This includes two fixes.

1) is a bug fix that happens when root does the following:

echo function_graph > current_tracer
modprobe foo
echo nop > current_tracer

This causes the ftrace internal accounting to get screwed up and
crashes ftrace, preventing the user from using the function tracer
after that.

2) if a TRACE_EVENT has a string field, and NULL is given for it.

The internal trace event code does a strlen() and strcpy() on the
source of field. If it is NULL it causes the system to oops.

This bug has been there since 2.6.31, but no TRACE_EVENT ever passed
in a NULL to the string field, until now.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git
trace-fixes-v3.13-rc1

Tag SHA1: 8186830c5ab0c57fae8e081ef0321443d8acb14c
Head SHA1: 8a56d7761d2d041ae5e8215d20b4167d8aa93f51


Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) (2):
tracing: Allow events to have NULL strings
ftrace: Fix function graph with loading of modules

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include/trace/ftrace.h | 5 ++--
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
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