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tracing: Fix NULL pointer dereference in start_creating
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commit ff41c28 upstream.

The event_trace_add_tracer() can fail. In this case, it leads to a crash
in start_creating with below call stack. Handle the error scenario
properly in trace_array_create_dir.

Call trace:
down_write+0x7c/0x204
start_creating.25017+0x6c/0x194
tracefs_create_file+0xc4/0x2b4
init_tracer_tracefs+0x5c/0x940
trace_array_create_dir+0x58/0xb4
trace_array_create+0x1bc/0x2b8
trace_array_get_by_name+0xdc/0x18c

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627651386-21315-1-git-send-email-kamaagra@codeaurora.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4114fbf ("tracing: Enable creating new instance early boot")
Signed-off-by: Kamal Agrawal <kamaagra@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Kamal Agrawal authored and gregkh committed Aug 12, 2021
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion kernel/trace/trace.c
Expand Up @@ -8683,8 +8683,10 @@ static int trace_array_create_dir(struct trace_array *tr)
return -EINVAL;

ret = event_trace_add_tracer(tr->dir, tr);
if (ret)
if (ret) {
tracefs_remove(tr->dir);
return ret;
}

init_tracer_tracefs(tr, tr->dir);
__update_tracer_options(tr);
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