user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c, branch v4.4.148

ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer

2018-08-09T10:19:28Z

commit 73c8d8945505acdcbae137c2e00a1232e0be709f upstream. Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching to the trace buffer snapshot. Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer (max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Hiraku Toyooka Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu [ Updated commit log and comment in the code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ring-buffer: Mask out the info bits when returning buffer page length

2018-01-02T19:33:22Z

commit 45d8b80c2ac5d21cd1e2954431fb676bc2b1e099 upstream. Two info bits were added to the "commit" part of the ring buffer data page when returned to be consumed. This was to inform the user space readers that events have been missed, and that the count may be stored at the end of the page. What wasn't handled, was the splice code that actually called a function to return the length of the data in order to zero out the rest of the page before sending it up to user space. These data bits were returned with the length making the value negative, and that negative value was not checked. It was compared to PAGE_SIZE, and only used if the size was less than PAGE_SIZE. Luckily PAGE_SIZE is unsigned long which made the compare an unsigned compare, meaning the negative size value did not end up causing a large portion of memory to be randomly zeroed out. Fixes: 66a8cb95ed040 ("ring-buffer: Add place holder recording of dropped events") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_iter_empty() return true when empty

2017-04-27T07:09:31Z

commit 78f7a45dac2a2d2002f98a3a95f7979867868d73 upstream. I noticed that reading the snapshot file when it is empty no longer gives a status. It suppose to show the status of the snapshot buffer as well as how to allocate and use it. For example: ># cat snapshot # tracer: nop # # # * Snapshot is allocated * # # Snapshot commands: # echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer # echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated. # Takes a snapshot of the main buffer. # echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate or free) # (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that # is not a '0' or '1') But instead it just showed an empty buffer: ># cat snapshot # tracer: nop # # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0 #P:4 # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | What happened was that it was using the ring_buffer_iter_empty() function to see if it was empty, and if it was, it showed the status. But that function was returning false when it was empty. The reason was that the iter header page was on the reader page, and the reader page was empty, but so was the buffer itself. The check only tested to see if the iter was on the commit page, but the commit page was no longer pointing to the reader page, but as all pages were empty, the buffer is also. Fixes: 651e22f2701b ("ring-buffer: Always reset iterator to reader page") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ring-buffer: Fix return value check in test_ringbuffer()

2017-04-12T10:38:33Z

commit 62277de758b155dc04b78f195a1cb5208c37b2df upstream. In case of error, the function kthread_run() returns ERR_PTR() and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should be replaced with IS_ERR(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466184839-14927-1-git-send-email-weiyj_lk@163.com Fixes: 6c43e554a ("ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ring-buffer: Prevent overflow of size in ring_buffer_resize()

2016-06-01T19:15:49Z

commit 59643d1535eb220668692a5359de22545af579f6 upstream. If the size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is greater than MAX_LONG - BUF_PAGE_SIZE then the DIV_ROUND_UP() will return zero. Here's the details: # echo 18014398509481980 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb tracing_entries_write() processes this and converts kb to bytes. 18014398509481980 << 10 = 18446744073709547520 and this is passed to ring_buffer_resize() as unsigned long size. size = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE); Where DIV_ROUND_UP(a, b) is (a + b - 1)/b BUF_PAGE_SIZE is 4080 and here 18446744073709547520 + 4080 - 1 = 18446744073709551599 where 18446744073709551599 is still smaller than 2^64 2^64 - 18446744073709551599 = 17 But now 18446744073709551599 / 4080 = 4521260802379792 and size = size * 4080 = 18446744073709551360 This is checked to make sure its still greater than 2 * 4080, which it is. Then we convert to the number of buffer pages needed. nr_page = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE) but this time size is 18446744073709551360 and 2^64 - (18446744073709551360 + 4080 - 1) = -3823 Thus it overflows and the resulting number is less than 4080, which makes 3823 / 4080 = 0 an nr_pages is set to this. As we already checked against the minimum that nr_pages may be, this causes the logic to fail as well, and we crash the kernel. There's no reason to have the two DIV_ROUND_UP() (that's just result of historical code changes), clean up the code and fix this bug. Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ring-buffer: Use long for nr_pages to avoid overflow failures

2016-06-01T19:15:49Z

commit 9b94a8fba501f38368aef6ac1b30e7335252a220 upstream. The size variable to change the ring buffer in ftrace is a long. The nr_pages used to update the ring buffer based on the size is int. On 64 bit machines this can cause an overflow problem. For example, the following will cause the ring buffer to crash: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 10 > buffer_size_kb # echo 8556384240 > buffer_size_kb Then you get the warning of: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 318 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1527 rb_update_pages+0x22f/0x260 Which is: RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, nr_removed); Note each ring buffer page holds 4080 bytes. This is because: 1) 10 causes the ring buffer to have 3 pages. (10kb requires 3 * 4080 pages to hold) 2) (2^31 / 2^10 + 1) * 4080 = 8556384240 The value written into buffer_size_kb is shifted by 10 and then passed to ring_buffer_resize(). 8556384240 * 2^10 = 8761737461760 3) The size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is then divided by BUF_PAGE_SIZE which is 4080. 8761737461760 / 4080 = 2147484672 4) nr_pages is subtracted from the current nr_pages (3) and we get: 2147484669. This value is saved in a signed integer nr_pages_to_update 5) 2147484669 is greater than 2^31 but smaller than 2^32, a signed int turns into the value of -2147482627 6) As the value is a negative number, in update_pages_handler() it is negated and passed to rb_remove_pages() and 2147482627 pages will be removed, which is much larger than 3 and it causes the warning because not all the pages asked to be removed were removed. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118001 Fixes: 7a8e76a3829f1 ("tracing: unified trace buffer") Reported-by: Hao Qin Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ring-buffer: Put back the length if crossed page with add_timestamp

2015-11-24T14:27:25Z

Commit fcc742eaad7c "ring-buffer: Add event descriptor to simplify passing data" added a descriptor that holds various data instead of passing around several variables through parameters. The problem was that one of the parameters was modified in a function and the code was designed not to have an effect on that modified parameter. Now that the parameter is a descriptor and any modifications to it are non-volatile, the size of the data could be unnecessarily expanded. Remove the extra space added if a timestamp was added and the event went across the page. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.3+ Fixes: fcc742eaad7c "ring-buffer: Add event descriptor to simplify passing data" Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Update read stamp with first real commit on page

2015-11-24T14:23:17Z

Do not update the read stamp after swapping out the reader page from the write buffer. If the reader page is swapped out of the buffer before an event is written to it, then the read_stamp may get an out of date timestamp, as the page timestamp is updated on the first commit to that page. rb_get_reader_page() only returns a page if it has an event on it, otherwise it will return NULL. At that point, check if the page being returned has events and has not been read yet. Then at that point update the read_stamp to match the time stamp of the reader page. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.30+ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: rb_event_is_commit() can return boolean

2015-11-02T19:25:29Z

Make rb_event_is_commit() return bool to improve readability due to this particular function only using either one or zero as its return value. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-7-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: rb_per_cpu_empty() can return boolean

2015-11-02T19:24:27Z

Makes rb_per_cpu_empty() return bool to improve readability. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-6-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt