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<title>tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call</title>
<updated>2021-01-30T12:25:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Gaurav Kohli</name>
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<published>2020-10-06T09:33:53Z</published>
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commit bbeb97464eefc65f506084fd9f18f21653e01137 upstream.

Below race can come, if trace_open and resize of
cpu buffer is running parallely on different cpus
CPUX                                CPUY
				    ring_buffer_resize
				    atomic_read(&amp;buffer-&gt;resize_disabled)
tracing_open
tracing_reset_online_cpus
ring_buffer_reset_cpu
rb_reset_cpu
				    rb_update_pages
				    remove/insert pages
resetting pointer

This race can cause data abort or some times infinte loop in
rb_remove_pages and rb_insert_pages while checking pages
for sanity.

Take buffer lock to fix this.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1601976833-24377-1-git-send-email-gkohli@codeaurora.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Reported-by: Denis Efremov &lt;efremov@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli &lt;gkohli@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Fix recursion protection transitions between interrupt context</title>
<updated>2020-11-18T17:24:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2020-11-02T20:31:27Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit b02414c8f045ab3b9afc816c3735bc98c5c3d262 ]

The recursion protection of the ring buffer depends on preempt_count() to be
correct. But it is possible that the ring buffer gets called after an
interrupt comes in but before it updates the preempt_count(). This will
trigger a false positive in the recursion code.

Use the same trick from the ftrace function callback recursion code which
uses a "transition" bit that gets set, to allow for a single recursion for
to handle transitions between contexts.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 567cd4da54ff4 ("ring-buffer: User context bit recursion checking")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ring-buffer: Return 0 on success from ring_buffer_resize()</title>
<updated>2020-11-10T09:22:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Qiujun Huang</name>
<email>hqjagain@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2020-10-19T14:22:42Z</published>
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commit 0a1754b2a97efa644aa6e84d1db5b17c42251483 upstream.

We don't need to check the new buffer size, and the return value
had confused resize_buffer_duplicate_size().
...
	ret = ring_buffer_resize(trace_buf-&gt;buffer,
		per_cpu_ptr(size_buf-&gt;data,cpu_id)-&gt;entries, cpu_id);
	if (ret == 0)
		per_cpu_ptr(trace_buf-&gt;data, cpu_id)-&gt;entries =
			per_cpu_ptr(size_buf-&gt;data, cpu_id)-&gt;entries;
...

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201019142242.11560-1-hqjagain@gmail.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d60da506cbeb3 ("tracing: Add a resize function to make one buffer equivalent to another buffer")
Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang &lt;hqjagain@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>trace: Fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse</title>
<updated>2019-05-16T17:44:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2019-04-23T20:03:18Z</published>
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commit d6097c9e4454adf1f8f2c9547c2fa6060d55d952 upstream.

Unless the very next line is schedule(), or implies it, one must not use
preempt_enable_no_resched(). It can cause a preemption to go missing and
thereby cause arbitrary delays, breaking the PREEMPT=y invariant.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423200318.GY14281@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: huang ying &lt;huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2c2d7329d8af ("tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: kdb: Fix ftdump to not sleep</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T07:33:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Anderson</name>
<email>dianders@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-08T19:32:04Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ]

As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a
BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context".

kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in
atomic context.  A very simple solution for this is to add allocation
flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without
triggering the allocation error.  This patch does that.

Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested
that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer
ahead of time or create our own iterator.  I'm hoping that this
alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare()
can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the
core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own
iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already
allocated).

NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it
reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the
duplication.  This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr
z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer).  The
downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer.
Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump
| grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it
will throw away the whole trace on the first grep.  A future patch to
dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to
implement.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org

Reported-by: Brian Norris &lt;briannorris@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ring-buffer: Allow for rescheduling when removing pages</title>
<updated>2018-09-29T10:08:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vaibhav Nagarnaik</name>
<email>vnagarnaik@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-07T22:31:29Z</published>
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commit 83f365554e47997ec68dc4eca3f5dce525cd15c3 upstream.

When reducing ring buffer size, pages are removed by scheduling a work
item on each CPU for the corresponding CPU ring buffer. After the pages
are removed from ring buffer linked list, the pages are free()d in a
tight loop. The loop does not give up CPU until all pages are removed.
In a worst case behavior, when lot of pages are to be freed, it can
cause system stall.

After the pages are removed from the list, the free() can happen while
the work is rescheduled. Call cond_resched() in the loop to prevent the
system hangup.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907223129.71994-1-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Reported-by: Jason Behmer &lt;jbehmer@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer</title>
<updated>2018-08-09T10:19:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-13T16:28:15Z</published>
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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 &gt; tracing_on
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 &gt; snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 &gt; 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 &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka &lt;hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
[ Updated commit log and comment in the code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee &lt;sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>ring-buffer: Mask out the info bits when returning buffer page length</title>
<updated>2018-01-02T19:33:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-23T01:32:35Z</published>
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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) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_iter_empty() return true when empty</title>
<updated>2017-04-27T07:09:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-19T18:29:46Z</published>
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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:

 &gt;# cat snapshot
 # tracer: nop
 #
 #
 # * Snapshot is allocated *
 #
 # Snapshot commands:
 # echo 0 &gt; snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
 # echo 1 &gt; snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
 #                      Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
 # echo 2 &gt; 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:

 &gt;# cat snapshot
 # tracer: nop
 #
 # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0   #P:4
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; 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) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>ring-buffer: Fix return value check in test_ringbuffer()</title>
<updated>2017-04-12T10:38:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yongjun</name>
<email>yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-17T17:33:59Z</published>
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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 &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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