From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> To: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>, Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> Subject: [PATCH v5.4 and earlier] trace: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:21:26 -0500 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20210125142126.70d6a33c@gandalf.local.home> (raw) From: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> [ upstream commit bbeb97464eefc65f506084fd9f18f21653e01137 ] 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(&buffer->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 infinite 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 <efremov@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> --- I updated the "Fixes:" tag with the proper commit it fixes. -- Steve kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 077877ed54f7..728374166653 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -4448,6 +4448,8 @@ void ring_buffer_reset_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu) if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, buffer->cpumask)) return; + /* prevent another thread from changing buffer sizes */ + mutex_lock(&buffer->mutex); atomic_inc(&buffer->resize_disabled); atomic_inc(&cpu_buffer->record_disabled); @@ -4471,6 +4473,8 @@ void ring_buffer_reset_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu) atomic_dec(&cpu_buffer->record_disabled); atomic_dec(&buffer->resize_disabled); + + mutex_unlock(&buffer->mutex); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_reset_cpu); -- 2.25.4
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