Re: [BUG] NULL pointer dereference probably caused by kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:20:33 +0100
Roland Ruckerbauer <roland.rucky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Unfortunately the same thing is still happening.

Can you try this?

If it stops the crash, it should trigger the warning, which hopefully
will shed more light onto the issue.

Thanks!

-- Steve

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 199759c73519..8dd793833b51 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -937,6 +937,9 @@ void ring_buffer_wake_waiters(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
 	struct rb_irq_work *rbwork;
 
+	if (!buffer)
+		return;
+
 	if (cpu == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) {
 
 		/* Wake up individual ones too. One level recursion */
@@ -945,6 +948,10 @@ void ring_buffer_wake_waiters(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 
 		rbwork = &buffer->irq_work;
 	} else {
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!buffer->buffers))
+			return;
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu >= nr_cpu_ids))
+			return;
 		cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
 		rbwork = &cpu_buffer->irq_work;
 	}