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Commit 40e26815 authored by Steven Rostedt's avatar Steven Rostedt
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tracing: do not allow modifying the ftrace events via the event files



Impact: fix to prevent crash on calling NULL function pointer

The ftrace internal records have their format exported via the event
system under the ftrace subsystem. These are only for exporting the
format to allow binary readers to be able to parse them in a binary
output.

The ftrace subsystem events can only be enabled via the ftrace tracers
and do not have a registering function. The event files expect the
event record to have registering function and will call it directly.
Passing in a ftrace subsystem event will cause the kernel to crash
because it will execute a NULL pointer.

This patch prevents the ftrace subsystem from being viewable to the
event enabling files.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
parent ce8eb2bf
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