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ring-buffer: Fix possible dereference of uninitialized pointer
authorDaniil Dulov <d.dulov@aladdin.ru>
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:01:30 +0000 (13:01 +0300)
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:20:41 +0000 (15:20 -0500)
commitf1547779402c4cd67755c33616b7203baa88420b
tree45761ce249770cee732fdbece161579089671973
parent3c6e577d5ae705edebed9882ff474d7a48a47dd2
ring-buffer: Fix possible dereference of uninitialized pointer

There is a pointer head_page in rb_meta_validate_events() which is not
initialized at the beginning of a function. This pointer can be dereferenced
if there is a failure during reader page validation. In this case the control
is passed to "invalid" label where the pointer is dereferenced in a loop.

To fix the issue initialize orig_head and head_page before calling
rb_validate_buffer.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260213100130.2013839-1-d.dulov@aladdin.ru
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202406130130.JtTGRf7W-lkp@intel.com/
Fixes: 5f3b6e839f3c ("ring-buffer: Validate boot range memory events")
Signed-off-by: Daniil Dulov <d.dulov@aladdin.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c