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:
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[<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)
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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 6d158a813e ("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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