tracing: fix mmiotrace resizing crash

Pekka reported a crash when resizing the mmiotrace tracer (if only
mmiotrace is enabled).

This happens because in that case we do not allocate the max buffer,
but we try to use it.

Make ring_buffer_resize() idempotent against NULL buffers.

Reported-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 231db20..036456c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -538,6 +538,12 @@ int ring_buffer_resize(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long size)
 	LIST_HEAD(pages);
 	int i, cpu;
 
+	/*
+	 * Always succeed at resizing a non-existent buffer:
+	 */
+	if (!buffer)
+		return size;
+
 	size = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE);
 	size *= BUF_PAGE_SIZE;
 	buffer_size = buffer->pages * BUF_PAGE_SIZE;