tracing: fix oops in tracepoint_update_probe_range()

Change this crash:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
 IP: [<ffffffff8107d4de>] tracepoint_update_probe_range+0x1f/0x9b
 PGD 13d5fb067 PUD 13d688067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

To a more debuggable WARN_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237394936.3132.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
[ moved the check outside the lock and added a WARN_ON(). ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 79602740bbb5f396278dbe1665eada4c6f0259f0..adf28734fe2d2171ea28f314e7dc76b8b75904b6 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -272,12 +272,17 @@ static void disable_tracepoint(struct tracepoint *elem)
  *
  * Updates the probe callback corresponding to a range of tracepoints.
  */
-void tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin,
-       struct tracepoint *end)
+void
+tracepoint_update_probe_range(struct tracepoint *begin, struct tracepoint *end)
 {
        struct tracepoint *iter;
        struct tracepoint_entry *mark_entry;
 
+       if (!begin) {
+               WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+               return;
+       }
+
        mutex_lock(&tracepoints_mutex);
        for (iter = begin; iter < end; iter++) {
                mark_entry = get_tracepoint(iter->name);