tracing: Handle NULL formats in hold_module_trace_bprintk_format()
If a task uses a non constant string for the format parameter in trace_printk(), then the trace_printk_fmt variable is set to NULL. This variable is then saved in the __trace_printk_fmt section. The function hold_module_trace_bprintk_format() checks to see if duplicate formats are used by modules, and reuses them if so (saves them to the list if it is new). But this function calls lookup_format() that does a strcmp() to the value (which is now NULL) and can cause a kernel oops. This wasn't an issue till 3debb0a9 ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()") which added "__used" to the trace_printk_fmt variable, and before that, the kernel simply optimized it out (no NULL value was saved). The fix is simply to handle the NULL pointer in lookup_format() and have the caller ignore the value if it was NULL. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464769870-18344-1-git-send-email-zhengjun.xing@intel.com Reported-by: xingzhen <zhengjun.xing@intel.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Fixes: 3debb0a9 ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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