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Hui Su 42ccb215ef tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop() 
commit 649bc7df3e upstream.

event_test_stuff() calls kthread_run() and unconditionally passes the
returned task_struct pointer to kthread_stop(). kthread_run() returns an
error pointer such as ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) when kthread creation fails, for
example under memory pressure during the boot-time event self-test.
kthread_stop() then dereferences the invalid pointer, crashing the kernel.

Check the result of kthread_run() before passing it to kthread_stop(). Use
WARN_ON() so that a failure to create the self-test thread does not go
unnoticed, matching the ring-buffer self-test fix in commit
91542863ab ("ring-buffer: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()").

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e6187007d6 ("tracing/events: add startup tests for events")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260817120642.668375-3-sh_def@163.com
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-09-14 13:20:04 +02:00
arch x86/insn-eval: Move assign_register() out of KVM as insn_assign_reg() 2026-09-14 13:20:04 +02:00
block partitions: aix: bound the pp_count scan to the ppe array 2026-07-24 15:51:24 +02:00
certs X.509: Fix validation of ASN.1 certificate header 2026-07-24 15:51:59 +02:00
crypto crypto: ccm - Set rfc4309 maxauthsize from child 2026-08-23 14:17:31 +02:00
Documentation mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files 2026-09-02 14:27:28 +02:00
drivers clocksource/drivers/timer-sun4i: Advertise a real minimum delta 2026-09-14 13:20:03 +02:00
fs fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure 2026-09-02 14:27:28 +02:00
include include/linux/list.h: mark list_add and __list_add as __always_inline 2026-09-14 13:20:03 +02:00
init bootconfig: move xbc_snprint_cmdline() to lib/bootconfig.c 2026-08-23 14:17:24 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/io-wq: fix worker accounting when canceling creation callbacks 2026-09-02 14:27:25 +02:00
ipc ipc/shm: serialize orphan cleanup with shm_nattch updates 2026-06-19 13:33:38 +02:00
kernel tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop() 2026-09-14 13:20:04 +02:00
lib kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT 2026-09-02 14:27:27 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm: memcg: stop reclaim when a limit update is superseded 2026-09-14 13:20:03 +02:00
net ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation 2026-09-02 14:27:28 +02:00
samples tracing/events: Fix to check the simple_tsk_fn creation 2026-07-24 15:51:42 +02:00
scripts kconfig: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in conf_askvalue 2026-07-24 15:51:28 +02:00
security selinux: switch two allocations to use kzalloc_objs() 2026-09-02 14:27:26 +02:00
sound ALSA: aloop: Fix racy access at PCM trigger 2026-09-14 13:20:03 +02:00
tools tools/compiler: match glibc 2.42 definition of __attribute_const__ 2026-09-14 13:20:04 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-06-27 11:05:22 +01:00
virt KVM: Rename mmu_notifier_* to mmu_invalidate_* 2026-08-27 14:28:21 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Remove *.orig pattern from .gitignore 2024-10-17 15:11:10 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: add Andrej Shadura 2021-10-18 20:22:03 -10:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext 2025-12-07 06:09:36 +09:00
Makefile Linux 5.15.220 2026-09-02 14:27:29 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.