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<title>tracing: Inform kmemleak of saved_cmdlines allocation</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T07:25:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2024-02-14T16:20:46Z</published>
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commit 2394ac4145ea91b92271e675a09af2a9ea6840b7 upstream.

The allocation of the struct saved_cmdlines_buffer structure changed from:

        s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL);
	s-&gt;saved_cmdlines = kmalloc_array(TASK_COMM_LEN, val, GFP_KERNEL);

to:

	orig_size = sizeof(*s) + val * TASK_COMM_LEN;
	order = get_order(orig_size);
	size = 1 &lt;&lt; (order + PAGE_SHIFT);
	page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
	if (!page)
		return NULL;

	s = page_address(page);
	memset(s, 0, sizeof(*s));

	s-&gt;saved_cmdlines = kmalloc_array(TASK_COMM_LEN, val, GFP_KERNEL);

Where that s-&gt;saved_cmdlines allocation looks to be a dangling allocation
to kmemleak. That's because kmemleak only keeps track of kmalloc()
allocations. For allocations that use page_alloc() directly, the kmemleak
needs to be explicitly informed about it.

Add kmemleak_alloc() and kmemleak_free() around the page allocation so
that it doesn't give the following false positive:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881010c8000 (size 32760):
  comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294667296
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
  backtrace (crc ae6ec1b9):
    [&lt;ffffffff86722405&gt;] kmemleak_alloc+0x45/0x80
    [&lt;ffffffff8414028d&gt;] __kmalloc_large_node+0x10d/0x190
    [&lt;ffffffff84146ab1&gt;] __kmalloc+0x3b1/0x4c0
    [&lt;ffffffff83ed7103&gt;] allocate_cmdlines_buffer+0x113/0x230
    [&lt;ffffffff88649c34&gt;] tracer_alloc_buffers.isra.0+0x124/0x460
    [&lt;ffffffff8864a174&gt;] early_trace_init+0x14/0xa0
    [&lt;ffffffff885dd5ae&gt;] start_kernel+0x12e/0x3c0
    [&lt;ffffffff885f5758&gt;] x86_64_start_reservations+0x18/0x30
    [&lt;ffffffff885f582b&gt;] x86_64_start_kernel+0x7b/0x80
    [&lt;ffffffff83a001c3&gt;] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x15e/0x16b

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/87r0hfnr9r.fsf@kernel.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240214112046.09a322d6@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 44dc5c41b5b1 ("tracing: Fix wasted memory in saved_cmdlines logic")
Reported-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Clean ring_buffer_poll_wait() error return</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T07:25:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Donnefort</name>
<email>vdonnefort@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-31T14:09:55Z</published>
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commit 66bbea9ed6446b8471d365a22734dc00556c4785 upstream.

The return type for ring_buffer_poll_wait() is __poll_t. This is behind
the scenes an unsigned where we can set event bits. In case of a
non-allocated CPU, we do return instead -EINVAL (0xffffffea). Lucky us,
this ends up setting few error bits (EPOLLERR | EPOLLHUP | EPOLLNVAL), so
user-space at least is aware something went wrong.

Nonetheless, this is an incorrect code. Replace that -EINVAL with a
proper EPOLLERR to clean that output. As this doesn't change the
behaviour, there's no need to treat this change as a bug fix.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240131140955.3322792-1-vdonnefort@google.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6721cb6002262 ("ring-buffer: Do not poll non allocated cpu buffers")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix wasted memory in saved_cmdlines logic</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T07:25:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-09T11:36:22Z</published>
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commit 44dc5c41b5b1267d4dd037d26afc0c4d3a568acb upstream.

While looking at improving the saved_cmdlines cache I found a huge amount
of wasted memory that should be used for the cmdlines.

The tracing data saves pids during the trace. At sched switch, if a trace
occurred, it will save the comm of the task that did the trace. This is
saved in a "cache" that maps pids to comms and exposed to user space via
the /sys/kernel/tracing/saved_cmdlines file. Currently it only caches by
default 128 comms.

The structure that uses this creates an array to store the pids using
PID_MAX_DEFAULT (which is usually set to 32768). This causes the structure
to be of the size of 131104 bytes on 64 bit machines.

In hex: 131104 = 0x20020, and since the kernel allocates generic memory in
powers of two, the kernel would allocate 0x40000 or 262144 bytes to store
this structure. That leaves 131040 bytes of wasted space.

Worse, the structure points to an allocated array to store the comm names,
which is 16 bytes times the amount of names to save (currently 128), which
is 2048 bytes. Instead of allocating a separate array, make the structure
end with a variable length string and use the extra space for that.

This is similar to a recommendation that Linus had made about eventfs_inode names:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240130190355.11486-5-torvalds@linux-foundation.org/

Instead of allocating a separate string array to hold the saved comms,
have the structure end with: char saved_cmdlines[]; and round up to the
next power of two over sizeof(struct saved_cmdline_buffers) + num_cmdlines * TASK_COMM_LEN
It will use this extra space for the saved_cmdline portion.

Now, instead of saving only 128 comms by default, by using this wasted
space at the end of the structure it can save over 8000 comms and even
saves space by removing the need for allocating the other array.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240209063622.1f7b6d5f@rorschach.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mete Durlu &lt;meted@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: 939c7a4f04fcd ("tracing: Introduce saved_cmdlines_size file")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>tracing/trigger: Fix to return error if failed to alloc snapshot</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T07:25:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-26T00:42:58Z</published>
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commit 0958b33ef5a04ed91f61cef4760ac412080c4e08 upstream.

Fix register_snapshot_trigger() to return error code if it failed to
allocate a snapshot instead of 0 (success). Unless that, it will register
snapshot trigger without an error.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/170622977792.270660.2789298642759362200.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 0bbe7f719985 ("tracing: Fix the race between registering 'snapshot' event trigger and triggering 'snapshot' operation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Ensure visibility when inserting an element into tracing_map</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T07:24:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-22T15:09:28Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2b44760609e9eaafc9d234a6883d042fc21132a7 ]

Running the following two commands in parallel on a multi-processor
AArch64 machine can sporadically produce an unexpected warning about
duplicate histogram entries:

 $ while true; do
     echo hist:key=id.syscall:val=hitcount &gt; \
       /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
     cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/hist
     sleep 0.001
   done
 $ stress-ng --sysbadaddr $(nproc)

The warning looks as follows:

[ 2911.172474] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2911.173111] Duplicates detected: 1
[ 2911.173574] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 12247 at kernel/trace/tracing_map.c:983 tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.174702] Modules linked in: iscsi_ibft(E) iscsi_boot_sysfs(E) rfkill(E) af_packet(E) nls_iso8859_1(E) nls_cp437(E) vfat(E) fat(E) ena(E) tiny_power_button(E) qemu_fw_cfg(E) button(E) fuse(E) efi_pstore(E) ip_tables(E) x_tables(E) xfs(E) libcrc32c(E) aes_ce_blk(E) aes_ce_cipher(E) crct10dif_ce(E) polyval_ce(E) polyval_generic(E) ghash_ce(E) gf128mul(E) sm4_ce_gcm(E) sm4_ce_ccm(E) sm4_ce(E) sm4_ce_cipher(E) sm4(E) sm3_ce(E) sm3(E) sha3_ce(E) sha512_ce(E) sha512_arm64(E) sha2_ce(E) sha256_arm64(E) nvme(E) sha1_ce(E) nvme_core(E) nvme_auth(E) t10_pi(E) sg(E) scsi_mod(E) scsi_common(E) efivarfs(E)
[ 2911.174738] Unloaded tainted modules: cppc_cpufreq(E):1
[ 2911.180985] CPU: 2 PID: 12247 Comm: cat Kdump: loaded Tainted: G            E      6.7.0-default #2 1b58bbb22c97e4399dc09f92d309344f69c44a01
[ 2911.182398] Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c7g.8xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 11/1/2018
[ 2911.183208] pstate: 61400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 2911.184038] pc : tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.184667] lr : tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.185310] sp : ffff8000a1513900
[ 2911.185750] x29: ffff8000a1513900 x28: ffff0003f272fe80 x27: 0000000000000001
[ 2911.186600] x26: ffff0003f272fe80 x25: 0000000000000030 x24: 0000000000000008
[ 2911.187458] x23: ffff0003c5788000 x22: ffff0003c16710c8 x21: ffff80008017f180
[ 2911.188310] x20: ffff80008017f000 x19: ffff80008017f180 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 2911.189160] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff8000a15134b8
[ 2911.190015] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 205d373432323154 x12: 5b5d313131333731
[ 2911.190844] x11: 00000000fffeffff x10: 00000000fffeffff x9 : ffffd1b78274a13c
[ 2911.191716] x8 : 000000000017ffe8 x7 : c0000000fffeffff x6 : 000000000057ffa8
[ 2911.192554] x5 : ffff0012f6c24ec0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffff2e5b72b5d000
[ 2911.193404] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0003ff254480
[ 2911.194259] Call trace:
[ 2911.194626]  tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.195220]  hist_show+0x124/0x800
[ 2911.195692]  seq_read_iter+0x1d4/0x4e8
[ 2911.196193]  seq_read+0xe8/0x138
[ 2911.196638]  vfs_read+0xc8/0x300
[ 2911.197078]  ksys_read+0x70/0x108
[ 2911.197534]  __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x38
[ 2911.198046]  invoke_syscall+0x78/0x108
[ 2911.198553]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xd0/0xf8
[ 2911.199157]  do_el0_svc+0x28/0x40
[ 2911.199613]  el0_svc+0x40/0x178
[ 2911.200048]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158
[ 2911.200621]  el0t_64_sync+0x1a8/0x1b0
[ 2911.201115] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The problem appears to be caused by CPU reordering of writes issued from
__tracing_map_insert().

The check for the presence of an element with a given key in this
function is:

 val = READ_ONCE(entry-&gt;val);
 if (val &amp;&amp; keys_match(key, val-&gt;key, map-&gt;key_size)) ...

The write of a new entry is:

 elt = get_free_elt(map);
 memcpy(elt-&gt;key, key, map-&gt;key_size);
 entry-&gt;val = elt;

The "memcpy(elt-&gt;key, key, map-&gt;key_size);" and "entry-&gt;val = elt;"
stores may become visible in the reversed order on another CPU. This
second CPU might then incorrectly determine that a new key doesn't match
an already present val-&gt;key and subsequently insert a new element,
resulting in a duplicate.

Fix the problem by adding a write barrier between
"memcpy(elt-&gt;key, key, map-&gt;key_size);" and "entry-&gt;val = elt;", and for
good measure, also use WRITE_ONCE(entry-&gt;val, elt) for publishing the
element. The sequence pairs with the mentioned "READ_ONCE(entry-&gt;val);"
and the "val-&gt;key" check which has an address dependency.

The barrier is placed on a path executed when adding an element for
a new key. Subsequent updates targeting the same key remain unaffected.

From the user's perspective, the issue was introduced by commit
c193707dde77 ("tracing: Remove code which merges duplicates"), which
followed commit cbf4100efb8f ("tracing: Add support to detect and avoid
duplicates"). The previous code operated differently; it inherently
expected potential races which result in duplicates but merged them
later when they occurred.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240122150928.27725-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com

Fixes: c193707dde77 ("tracing: Remove code which merges duplicates")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Do not record in NMI if the arch does not support cmpxchg in NMI</title>
<updated>2024-01-25T22:34:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-13T22:54:03Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 712292308af2265cd9b126aedfa987f10f452a33 ]

As the ring buffer recording requires cmpxchg() to work, if the
architecture does not support cmpxchg in NMI, then do not do any recording
within an NMI.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231213175403.6fc18540@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Add size check when printing trace_marker output</title>
<updated>2024-01-25T22:34:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-12T13:44:44Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 60be76eeabb3d83858cc6577fc65c7d0f36ffd42 ]

If for some reason the trace_marker write does not have a nul byte for the
string, it will overflow the print:

  trace_seq_printf(s, ": %s", field-&gt;buf);

The field-&gt;buf could be missing the nul byte. To prevent overflow, add the
max size that the buf can be by using the event size and the field
location.

  int max = iter-&gt;ent_size - offsetof(struct print_entry, buf);

  trace_seq_printf(s, ": %*.s", max, field-&gt;buf);

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231212084444.4619b8ce@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Have large events show up as '[LINE TOO BIG]' instead of nothing</title>
<updated>2024-01-25T22:34:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-09T22:10:58Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit b55b0a0d7c4aa2dac3579aa7e6802d1f57445096 ]

If a large event was added to the ring buffer that is larger than what the
trace_seq can handle, it just drops the output:

 ~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace
 # tracer: nop
 #
 # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2/2   #P:8
 #
 #                                _-----=&gt; irqs-off/BH-disabled
 #                               / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                              | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                              || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                              ||| / _-=&gt; migrate-disable
 #                              |||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID     CPU#  |||||  TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |         |   |||||     |         |
            &lt;...&gt;-859     [001] .....   141.118951: tracing_mark_write           &lt;...&gt;-859     [001] .....   141.148201: tracing_mark_write: 78901234

Instead, catch this case and add some context:

 ~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace
 # tracer: nop
 #
 # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2/2   #P:8
 #
 #                                _-----=&gt; irqs-off/BH-disabled
 #                               / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                              | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                              || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                              ||| / _-=&gt; migrate-disable
 #                              |||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID     CPU#  |||||  TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |         |   |||||     |         |
            &lt;...&gt;-852     [001] .....   121.550551: tracing_mark_write[LINE TOO BIG]
            &lt;...&gt;-852     [001] .....   121.550581: tracing_mark_write: 78901234

This now emulates the same output as trace_pipe.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231209171058.78c1a026@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Fix wake ups when buffer_percent is set to 100</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T10:29:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2023-12-26T17:59:02Z</published>
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commit 623b1f896fa8a669a277ee5a258307a16c7377a3 upstream.

The tracefs file "buffer_percent" is to allow user space to set a
water-mark on how much of the tracing ring buffer needs to be filled in
order to wake up a blocked reader.

 0 - is to wait until any data is in the buffer
 1 - is to wait for 1% of the sub buffers to be filled
 50 - would be half of the sub buffers are filled with data
 100 - is not to wake the waiter until the ring buffer is completely full

Unfortunately the test for being full was:

	dirty = ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages(buffer, cpu);
	return (dirty * 100) &gt; (full * nr_pages);

Where "full" is the value for "buffer_percent".

There is two issues with the above when full == 100.

1. dirty * 100 &gt; 100 * nr_pages will never be true
   That is, the above is basically saying that if the user sets
   buffer_percent to 100, more pages need to be dirty than exist in the
   ring buffer!

2. The page that the writer is on is never considered dirty, as dirty
   pages are only those that are full. When the writer goes to a new
   sub-buffer, it clears the contents of that sub-buffer.

That is, even if the check was "&gt;=" it would still not be equal as the
most pages that can be considered "dirty" is nr_pages - 1.

To fix this, add one to dirty and use "&gt;=" in the compare.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231226125902.4a057f1d@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 03329f9939781 ("tracing: Add tracefs file buffer_percentage")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>ring-buffer: Fix memory leak of free page</title>
<updated>2023-12-20T14:41:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-11T03:12:50Z</published>
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commit 17d801758157bec93f26faaf5ff1a8b9a552d67a upstream.

Reading the ring buffer does a swap of a sub-buffer within the ring buffer
with a empty sub-buffer. This allows the reader to have full access to the
content of the sub-buffer that was swapped out without having to worry
about contention with the writer.

The readers call ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() to allocate a page that
will be used to swap with the ring buffer. When the code is finished with
the reader page, it calls ring_buffer_free_read_page(). Instead of freeing
the page, it stores it as a spare. Then next call to
ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() will return this spare instead of calling
into the memory management system to allocate a new page.

Unfortunately, on freeing of the ring buffer, this spare page is not
freed, and causes a memory leak.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231210221250.7b9cc83c@rorschach.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Fixes: 73a757e63114d ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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