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tracing: Fix crash when it fails to alloc ring buffer
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Double free of the ring buffer happens when it fails to alloc new
ring buffer instance for max_buffer if TRACER_MAX_TRACE is configured.
The root cause is that the pointer is not set to NULL after the buffer
is freed in allocate_trace_buffers(), and the freeing of the ring
buffer is invoked again later if the pointer is not equal to Null,
as:

instance_mkdir()
    |-allocate_trace_buffers()
        |-allocate_trace_buffer(tr, &tr->trace_buffer...)
	|-allocate_trace_buffer(tr, &tr->max_buffer...)

          // allocate fail(-ENOMEM),first free
          // and the buffer pointer is not set to null
        |-ring_buffer_free(tr->trace_buffer.buffer)

       // out_free_tr
    |-free_trace_buffers()
        |-free_trace_buffer(&tr->trace_buffer);

	      //if trace_buffer is not null, free again
	    |-ring_buffer_free(buf->buffer)
                |-rb_free_cpu_buffer(buffer->buffers[cpu])
                    // ring_buffer_per_cpu is null, and
                    // crash in ring_buffer_per_cpu->pages

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171226071253.8968-1-chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 737223f ("tracing: Consolidate buffer allocation code")
Signed-off-by: Jing Xia <jing.xia@spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Jing Xia authored and Steven Rostedt (VMware) committed Dec 27, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -7603,7 +7603,9 @@ static int allocate_trace_buffers(struct trace_array *tr, int size)
allocate_snapshot ? size : 1);
if (WARN_ON(ret)) {
ring_buffer_free(tr->trace_buffer.buffer);
tr->trace_buffer.buffer = NULL;
free_percpu(tr->trace_buffer.data);
tr->trace_buffer.data = NULL;
return -ENOMEM;
}
tr->allocated_snapshot = allocate_snapshot;
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