tracing: kdb: Fix kernel panic during ftdump
Currently kdb's ftdump command unconditionally crashes due to a null pointer de-reference whenever the command is run. This in turn causes the kernel to panic. The abridged stacktrace (gathered with ARCH=arm) is: --- cut here --- [<c09535ac>] (panic) from [<c02132dc>] (die+0x264/0x440) [<c02132dc>] (die) from [<c0952eb8>] (__do_kernel_fault.part.11+0x74/0x84) [<c0952eb8>] (__do_kernel_fault.part.11) from [<c021f954>] (do_page_fault+0x1d0/0x3c4) [<c021f954>] (do_page_fault) from [<c020846c>] (do_DataAbort+0x48/0xac) [<c020846c>] (do_DataAbort) from [<c0213c58>] (__dabt_svc+0x38/0x60) Exception stack(0xc0deba88 to 0xc0debad0) ba80: e8c29180 00000001 e9854304 e9854300 c0f567d8 c0df2580 baa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 c0f117b8 c0e3a3c0 c0debb0c 00000000 c0debad0 bac0: 0000672e c02f4d60 60000193 ffffffff [<c0213c58>] (__dabt_svc) from [<c02f4d60>] (kdb_ftdump+0x1e4/0x3d8) [<c02f4d60>] (kdb_ftdump) from [<c02ce328>] (kdb_parse+0x2b8/0x698) [<c02ce328>] (kdb_parse) from [<c02ceef0>] (kdb_main_loop+0x52c/0x784) [<c02ceef0>] (kdb_main_loop) from [<c02d1b0c>] (kdb_stub+0x238/0x490) --- cut here --- The NULL deref occurs due to the initialized use of struct trace_iter's buffer_iter member. This is a regression, albeit a fairly elderly one. It was introduced by commit 6d158a81 ("tracing: Remove NR_CPUS array from trace_iterator"). This patch solves this by providing a collection of ring_buffer_iter(s) and using this to initialize buffer_iter. Note that static allocation is used solely because the trace_iter itself is also static allocated. Static allocation also means that we have to NULL-ify the pointer during cleanup to avoid use-after-free problems. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415277716-19419-2-git-send-email-daniel.thompson@linaro.org Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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