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authorMasami Ichikawa <masami256@gmail.com>2020-01-16 22:12:36 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-01-29 16:45:25 +0100
commit07af0d03e8b2e888b07ce5ed353fa8b6497918e1 (patch)
treeabf19901f281aa57373296acf1b83d5db00f58f7 /kernel
parent67551f958458ba077c6237a14c4cf6a834cba667 (diff)
tracing: Do not set trace clock if tracefs lockdown is in effect
commit bf24daac8f2bd5b8affaec03c2be1d20bcdd6837 upstream. When trace_clock option is not set and unstable clcok detected, tracing_set_default_clock() sets trace_clock(ThinkPad A285 is one of case). In that case, if lockdown is in effect, null pointer dereference error happens in ring_buffer_set_clock(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200116131236.3866925-1-masami256@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 17911ff38aa58 ("tracing: Add locked_down checks to the open calls of files created for tracefs") Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788488 Signed-off-by: Masami Ichikawa <masami256@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index bcb72f102613..341aab32c946 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -9270,6 +9270,11 @@ __init static int tracing_set_default_clock(void)
{
/* sched_clock_stable() is determined in late_initcall */
if (!trace_boot_clock && !sched_clock_stable()) {
+ if (security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_TRACEFS)) {
+ pr_warn("Can not set tracing clock due to lockdown\n");
+ return -EPERM;
+ }
+
printk(KERN_WARNING
"Unstable clock detected, switching default tracing clock to \"global\"\n"
"If you want to keep using the local clock, then add:\n"