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ring-buffer: Check for uninitialized cpu buffer before resizing
authorVaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:40:27 +0000 (16:40 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:56:10 +0000 (10:56 -0700)
commitc46d0da8fad7ef10a6f86ebd698fba26e7cadcf5
tree508036fcbf23a2425f968a74d48b0c9cb36c4333
parent3e75581ec02473059597582fa24cf077f0e20b1b
ring-buffer: Check for uninitialized cpu buffer before resizing

commit 8e49f418c9632790bf456634742d34d97120a784 upstream.

With a system where, num_present_cpus < num_possible_cpus, even if all
CPUs are online, non-present CPUs don't have per_cpu buffers allocated.
If per_cpu/<cpu>/buffer_size_kb is modified for such a CPU, it can cause
a panic due to NULL dereference in ring_buffer_resize().

To fix this, resize operation is allowed only if the per-cpu buffer has
been initialized.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349912427-6486-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c