From bcabd91c271e50eebc0cb9220ac92700332b452e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:52:35 +0800
Subject: tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereference

Try this, and you'll see NULL pointer dereference bug:

  # echo -n 'parent_comm ==' > sched/sched_process_fork/filter

Because we passed NULL ptr to simple_strtoull().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E04C43.1050504@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'kernel')

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 026be412f356..9d2162fd2305 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -410,6 +410,11 @@ int filter_parse(char **pbuf, struct filter_pred *pred)
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (!val_str) {
+		pred->field_name = NULL;
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	pred->field_name = kstrdup(pred->field_name, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pred->field_name)
 		return -ENOMEM;
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