linux-stable.git/kernel/trace/trace.c, branch v4.9.185 Linux kernel stable tree tracing: Silence GCC 9 array bounds warning 2019-07-10T07:55:28+00:00 Miguel Ojeda miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com 2019-05-23T12:45:35+00:00 2e41539ee26f2f16f2740ce4a18b6034234bc01c commit 0c97bf863efce63d6ab7971dad811601e6171d2f upstream. Starting with GCC 9, -Warray-bounds detects cases when memset is called starting on a member of a struct but the size to be cleared ends up writing over further members. Such a call happens in the trace code to clear, at once, all members after and including `seq` on struct trace_iterator: In function 'memset', inlined from 'ftrace_dump' at kernel/trace/trace.c:8914:3: ./include/linux/string.h:344:9: warning: '__builtin_memset' offset [8505, 8560] from the object at 'iter' is out of the bounds of referenced subobject 'seq' with type 'struct trace_seq' at offset 4368 [-Warray-bounds] 344 | return __builtin_memset(p, c, size); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In order to avoid GCC complaining about it, we compute the address ourselves by adding the offsetof distance instead of referring directly to the member. Since there are two places doing this clear (trace.c and trace_kdb.c), take the chance to move the workaround into a single place in the internal header. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523124535.GA12931@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> [ Removed unnecessary parenthesis around "iter" ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 0c97bf863efce63d6ab7971dad811601e6171d2f upstream.

Starting with GCC 9, -Warray-bounds detects cases when memset is called
starting on a member of a struct but the size to be cleared ends up
writing over further members.

Such a call happens in the trace code to clear, at once, all members
after and including `seq` on struct trace_iterator:

    In function 'memset',
        inlined from 'ftrace_dump' at kernel/trace/trace.c:8914:3:
    ./include/linux/string.h:344:9: warning: '__builtin_memset' offset
    [8505, 8560] from the object at 'iter' is out of the bounds of
    referenced subobject 'seq' with type 'struct trace_seq' at offset
    4368 [-Warray-bounds]
      344 |  return __builtin_memset(p, c, size);
          |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In order to avoid GCC complaining about it, we compute the address
ourselves by adding the offsetof distance instead of referring
directly to the member.

Since there are two places doing this clear (trace.c and trace_kdb.c),
take the chance to move the workaround into a single place in
the internal header.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523124535.GA12931@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
[ Removed unnecessary parenthesis around "iter" ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs: prevent page refcount overflow in pipe_buf_get 2019-06-11T10:22:45+00:00 Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org 2019-04-05T21:02:10+00:00 9557090582a33801349f0a0920a55d134a27e740 commit 15fab63e1e57be9fdb5eec1bbc5916e9825e9acb upstream. Change pipe_buf_get() to return a bool indicating whether it succeeded in raising the refcount of the page (if the thing in the pipe is a page). This removes another mechanism for overflowing the page refcount. All callers converted to handle a failure. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 15fab63e1e57be9fdb5eec1bbc5916e9825e9acb upstream.

Change pipe_buf_get() to return a bool indicating whether it succeeded
in raising the refcount of the page (if the thing in the pipe is a page).
This removes another mechanism for overflowing the page refcount.  All
callers converted to handle a failure.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: Fix a memory leak by early error exit in trace_pid_write() 2019-05-02T07:32:00+00:00 Wenwen Wang wang6495@umn.edu 2019-04-20T02:22:59+00:00 3ddc299357094265573482856191dec115c93cb2 commit 91862cc7867bba4ee5c8fcf0ca2f1d30427b6129 upstream. In trace_pid_write(), the buffer for trace parser is allocated through kmalloc() in trace_parser_get_init(). Later on, after the buffer is used, it is then freed through kfree() in trace_parser_put(). However, it is possible that trace_pid_write() is terminated due to unexpected errors, e.g., ENOMEM. In that case, the allocated buffer will not be freed, which is a memory leak bug. To fix this issue, free the allocated buffer when an error is encountered. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1555726979-15633-1-git-send-email-wang6495@umn.edu Fixes: f4d34a87e9c10 ("tracing: Use pid bitmap instead of a pid array for set_event_pid") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 91862cc7867bba4ee5c8fcf0ca2f1d30427b6129 upstream.

In trace_pid_write(), the buffer for trace parser is allocated through
kmalloc() in trace_parser_get_init(). Later on, after the buffer is used,
it is then freed through kfree() in trace_parser_put(). However, it is
possible that trace_pid_write() is terminated due to unexpected errors,
e.g., ENOMEM. In that case, the allocated buffer will not be freed, which
is a memory leak bug.

To fix this issue, free the allocated buffer when an error is encountered.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1555726979-15633-1-git-send-email-wang6495@umn.edu

Fixes: f4d34a87e9c10 ("tracing: Use pid bitmap instead of a pid array for set_event_pid")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: kdb: Fix ftdump to not sleep 2019-04-05T20:29:05+00:00 Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org 2019-03-08T19:32:04+00:00 3085d41e89f0a268842e3a66b8436faed79d504f [ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ] As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context". kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in atomic context. A very simple solution for this is to add allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without triggering the allocation error. This patch does that. Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer ahead of time or create our own iterator. I'm hoping that this alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already allocated). NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the duplication. This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer). The downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer. Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump | grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it will throw away the whole trace on the first grep. A future patch to dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to implement. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ]

As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a
BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context".

kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in
atomic context.  A very simple solution for this is to add allocation
flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without
triggering the allocation error.  This patch does that.

Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested
that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer
ahead of time or create our own iterator.  I'm hoping that this
alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare()
can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the
core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own
iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already
allocated).

NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it
reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the
duplication.  This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr
z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer).  The
downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer.
Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump
| grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it
will throw away the whole trace on the first grep.  A future patch to
dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to
implement.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org

Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
tracing: Do not free iter->trace in fail path of tracing_open_pipe() 2019-03-23T12:19:45+00:00 zhangyi (F) yi.zhang@huawei.com 2019-02-13T12:29:06+00:00 037a6cf0d5d3422206321649e5fe4c5f03d06ba9 commit e7f0c424d0806b05d6f47be9f202b037eb701707 upstream. Commit d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files") use the current tracer instead of the copy in tracing_open_pipe(), but it forget to remove the freeing sentence in the error path. There's an error path that can call kfree(iter->trace) after the iter->trace was assigned to tr->current_trace, which would be bad to free. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550060946-45984-1-git-send-email-yi.zhang@huawei.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files") Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit e7f0c424d0806b05d6f47be9f202b037eb701707 upstream.

Commit d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in
pipe files") use the current tracer instead of the copy in
tracing_open_pipe(), but it forget to remove the freeing sentence in
the error path.

There's an error path that can call kfree(iter->trace) after the iter->trace
was assigned to tr->current_trace, which would be bad to free.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550060946-45984-1-git-send-email-yi.zhang@huawei.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files")
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: Use cpumask_available() to check if cpumask variable may be used 2019-02-27T09:07:02+00:00 Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org 2017-04-21T23:41:10+00:00 8bd71286fde0fe25024c0cc97a91962ec68a74b2 commit 4dbbe2d8e95c351157f292ece067f985c30c7b53 upstream. This fixes the following clang warning: kernel/trace/trace.c:3231:12: warning: address of array 'iter->started' will always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bool-conversion] if (iter->started) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170421234110.117075-1-mka@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 4dbbe2d8e95c351157f292ece067f985c30c7b53 upstream.

This fixes the following clang warning:

kernel/trace/trace.c:3231:12: warning: address of array 'iter->started'
  will always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
        if (iter->started)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170421234110.117075-1-mka@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: Do not call start/stop() functions when tracing_on does not change 2018-09-09T18:01:22+00:00 Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org 2018-08-01T19:40:57+00:00 dc697314056cbf0f4b9ff2432c617edbebce1107 commit f143641bfef9a4a60c57af30de26c63057e7e695 upstream. Currently, when one echo's in 1 into tracing_on, the current tracer's "start()" function is executed, even if tracing_on was already one. This can lead to strange side effects. One being that if the hwlat tracer is enabled, and someone does "echo 1 > tracing_on" into tracing_on, the hwlat tracer's start() function is called again which will recreate another kernel thread, and make it unable to remove the old one. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533120354-22923-1-git-send-email-erica.bugden@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 2df8f8a6a897e ("tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file") Reported-by: Erica Bugden <erica.bugden@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit f143641bfef9a4a60c57af30de26c63057e7e695 upstream.

Currently, when one echo's in 1 into tracing_on, the current tracer's
"start()" function is executed, even if tracing_on was already one. This can
lead to strange side effects. One being that if the hwlat tracer is enabled,
and someone does "echo 1 > tracing_on" into tracing_on, the hwlat tracer's
start() function is called again which will recreate another kernel thread,
and make it unable to remove the old one.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533120354-22923-1-git-send-email-erica.bugden@linutronix.de

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2df8f8a6a897e ("tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file")
Reported-by: Erica Bugden <erica.bugden@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: Use __printf markup to silence compiler 2018-08-24T11:12:35+00:00 Mathieu Malaterre malat@debian.org 2018-03-08T20:58:43+00:00 bca139fc9b67c865cb94b2780d203f2d0ac5a353 [ Upstream commit 26b68dd2f48fe7699a89f0cfbb9f4a650dc1c837 ] Silence warnings (triggered at W=1) by adding relevant __printf attributes. CC kernel/trace/trace.o kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘__trace_array_vprintk’: kernel/trace/trace.c:2979:2: warning: function might be possible candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format] len = vscnprintf(tbuffer, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args); ^~~ AR kernel/trace/built-in.o Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180308205843.27447-1-malat@debian.org Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
[ Upstream commit 26b68dd2f48fe7699a89f0cfbb9f4a650dc1c837 ]

Silence warnings (triggered at W=1) by adding relevant __printf attributes.

  CC      kernel/trace/trace.o
kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘__trace_array_vprintk’:
kernel/trace/trace.c:2979:2: warning: function might be possible candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
  len = vscnprintf(tbuffer, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args);
  ^~~
  AR      kernel/trace/built-in.o

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180308205843.27447-1-malat@debian.org

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer 2018-08-09T10:17:59+00:00 Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org 2018-07-13T16:28:15+00:00 a26030a63e041c5d81df356d0f8a5d8e7bad25e3 commit 73c8d8945505acdcbae137c2e00a1232e0be709f upstream. Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching to the trace buffer snapshot. Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer (max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> [ Updated commit log and comment in the code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 73c8d8945505acdcbae137c2e00a1232e0be709f upstream.

Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching
to the trace buffer snapshot.

Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer
(max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined
by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting
can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below:

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0

We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on
setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know
that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and
the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[ Updated commit log and comment in the code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: Fix crash when it fails to alloc ring buffer 2018-01-02T19:35:07+00:00 Jing Xia jing.xia@spreadtrum.com 2017-12-26T07:12:53+00:00 81e155e7b023dd8967ddead36edf8a6a0e2ba72b commit 24f2aaf952ee0b59f31c3a18b8b36c9e3d3c2cf5 upstream. 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 Fixes: 737223fbca3b1 ("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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 24f2aaf952ee0b59f31c3a18b8b36c9e3d3c2cf5 upstream.

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

Fixes: 737223fbca3b1 ("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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>