[lvc-project] [PATCH v1] kernel/trace/ring_buffer: don't deactivate non-existant pages

Daniil Tatianin d-tatianin at yandex-team.ru
Mon Nov 14 17:31:29 MSK 2022


rb_head_page_deactivate() expects cpu_buffer to contain a valid list of
->pages, so verify that the list is actually present before calling it.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE
static analysis tool.

Signed-off-by: Daniil Tatianin <d-tatianin at yandex-team.ru>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index a12e27815555..1e9de3d49701 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1635,9 +1635,9 @@ static void rb_free_cpu_buffer(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 
 	free_buffer_page(cpu_buffer->reader_page);
 
-	rb_head_page_deactivate(cpu_buffer);
-
 	if (head) {
+		rb_head_page_deactivate(cpu_buffer);
+
 		list_for_each_entry_safe(bpage, tmp, head, list) {
 			list_del_init(&bpage->list);
 			free_buffer_page(bpage);
-- 
2.25.1




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