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<title>ring-buffer: Fix race between reset page and reading page</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2022-09-29T14:49:09+00:00</published>
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commit a0fcaaed0c46cf9399d3a2d6e0c87ddb3df0e044 upstream.

The ring buffer is broken up into sub buffers (currently of page size).
Each sub buffer has a pointer to its "tail" (the last event written to the
sub buffer). When a new event is requested, the tail is locally
incremented to cover the size of the new event. This is done in a way that
there is no need for locking.

If the tail goes past the end of the sub buffer, the process of moving to
the next sub buffer takes place. After setting the current sub buffer to
the next one, the previous one that had the tail go passed the end of the
sub buffer needs to be reset back to the original tail location (before
the new event was requested) and the rest of the sub buffer needs to be
"padded".

The race happens when a reader takes control of the sub buffer. As readers
do a "swap" of sub buffers from the ring buffer to get exclusive access to
the sub buffer, it replaces the "head" sub buffer with an empty sub buffer
that goes back into the writable portion of the ring buffer. This swap can
happen as soon as the writer moves to the next sub buffer and before it
updates the last sub buffer with padding.

Because the sub buffer can be released to the reader while the writer is
still updating the padding, it is possible for the reader to see the event
that goes past the end of the sub buffer. This can cause obvious issues.

To fix this, add a few memory barriers so that the reader definitely sees
the updates to the sub buffer, and also waits until the writer has put
back the "tail" of the sub buffer back to the last event that was written
on it.

To be paranoid, it will only spin for 1 second, otherwise it will
warn and shutdown the ring buffer code. 1 second should be enough as
the writer does have preemption disabled. If the writer doesn't move
within 1 second (with preemption disabled) something is horribly
wrong. No interrupt should last 1 second!

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220830120854.7545-1-jiazi.li@transsion.com/
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216369
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220929104909.0650a36c@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c7b0930857e22 ("ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area")
Reported-by: Jiazi.Li &lt;jiazi.li@transsion.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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commit a0fcaaed0c46cf9399d3a2d6e0c87ddb3df0e044 upstream.

The ring buffer is broken up into sub buffers (currently of page size).
Each sub buffer has a pointer to its "tail" (the last event written to the
sub buffer). When a new event is requested, the tail is locally
incremented to cover the size of the new event. This is done in a way that
there is no need for locking.

If the tail goes past the end of the sub buffer, the process of moving to
the next sub buffer takes place. After setting the current sub buffer to
the next one, the previous one that had the tail go passed the end of the
sub buffer needs to be reset back to the original tail location (before
the new event was requested) and the rest of the sub buffer needs to be
"padded".

The race happens when a reader takes control of the sub buffer. As readers
do a "swap" of sub buffers from the ring buffer to get exclusive access to
the sub buffer, it replaces the "head" sub buffer with an empty sub buffer
that goes back into the writable portion of the ring buffer. This swap can
happen as soon as the writer moves to the next sub buffer and before it
updates the last sub buffer with padding.

Because the sub buffer can be released to the reader while the writer is
still updating the padding, it is possible for the reader to see the event
that goes past the end of the sub buffer. This can cause obvious issues.

To fix this, add a few memory barriers so that the reader definitely sees
the updates to the sub buffer, and also waits until the writer has put
back the "tail" of the sub buffer back to the last event that was written
on it.

To be paranoid, it will only spin for 1 second, otherwise it will
warn and shutdown the ring buffer code. 1 second should be enough as
the writer does have preemption disabled. If the writer doesn't move
within 1 second (with preemption disabled) something is horribly
wrong. No interrupt should last 1 second!

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220830120854.7545-1-jiazi.li@transsion.com/
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216369
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220929104909.0650a36c@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c7b0930857e22 ("ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area")
Reported-by: Jiazi.Li &lt;jiazi.li@transsion.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>ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_wake_waiters()</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-28T17:39:38+00:00</published>
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commit 7e9fbbb1b776d8d7969551565bc246f74ec53b27 upstream.

On closing of a file that represents a ring buffer or flushing the file,
there may be waiters on the ring buffer that needs to be woken up and exit
the ring_buffer_wait() function.

Add ring_buffer_wake_waiters() to wake up the waiters on the ring buffer
and allow them to exit the wait loop.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220928133938.28dc2c27@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 15693458c4bc0 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code")
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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commit 7e9fbbb1b776d8d7969551565bc246f74ec53b27 upstream.

On closing of a file that represents a ring buffer or flushing the file,
there may be waiters on the ring buffer that needs to be woken up and exit
the ring_buffer_wait() function.

Add ring_buffer_wake_waiters() to wake up the waiters on the ring buffer
and allow them to exit the wait loop.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220928133938.28dc2c27@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 15693458c4bc0 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code")
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: Check pending waiters when doing wake ups as well</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-27T23:15:25+00:00</published>
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commit ec0bbc5ec5664dcee344f79373852117dc672c86 upstream.

The wake up waiters only checks the "wakeup_full" variable and not the
"full_waiters_pending". The full_waiters_pending is set when a waiter is
added to the wait queue. The wakeup_full is only set when an event is
triggered, and it clears the full_waiters_pending to avoid multiple calls
to irq_work_queue().

The irq_work callback really needs to check both wakeup_full as well as
full_waiters_pending such that this code can be used to wake up waiters
when a file is closed that represents the ring buffer and the waiters need
to be woken up.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927231824.209460321@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 15693458c4bc0 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code")
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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commit ec0bbc5ec5664dcee344f79373852117dc672c86 upstream.

The wake up waiters only checks the "wakeup_full" variable and not the
"full_waiters_pending". The full_waiters_pending is set when a waiter is
added to the wait queue. The wakeup_full is only set when an event is
triggered, and it clears the full_waiters_pending to avoid multiple calls
to irq_work_queue().

The irq_work callback really needs to check both wakeup_full as well as
full_waiters_pending such that this code can be used to wake up waiters
when a file is closed that represents the ring buffer and the waiters need
to be woken up.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927231824.209460321@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 15693458c4bc0 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code")
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: Have the shortest_full queue be the shortest not longest</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-27T23:15:24+00:00</published>
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commit 3b19d614b61b93a131f463817e08219c9ce1fee3 upstream.

The logic to know when the shortest waiters on the ring buffer should be
woken up or not has uses a less than instead of a greater than compare,
which causes the shortest_full to actually be the longest.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927231823.718039222@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 2c2b0a78b3739 ("ring-buffer: Add percentage of ring buffer full to wake up reader")
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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commit 3b19d614b61b93a131f463817e08219c9ce1fee3 upstream.

The logic to know when the shortest waiters on the ring buffer should be
woken up or not has uses a less than instead of a greater than compare,
which causes the shortest_full to actually be the longest.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927231823.718039222@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 2c2b0a78b3739 ("ring-buffer: Add percentage of ring buffer full to wake up reader")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Allow splice to read previous partially read pages</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-27T18:43:17+00:00</published>
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commit fa8f4a89736b654125fb254b0db753ac68a5fced upstream.

If a page is partially read, and then the splice system call is run
against the ring buffer, it will always fail to read, no matter how much
is in the ring buffer. That's because the code path for a partial read of
the page does will fail if the "full" flag is set.

The splice system call wants full pages, so if the read of the ring buffer
is not yet full, it should return zero, and the splice will block. But if
a previous read was done, where the beginning has been consumed, it should
still be given to the splice caller if the rest of the page has been
written to.

This caused the splice command to never consume data in this scenario, and
let the ring buffer just fill up and lose events.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927144317.46be6b80@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8789a9e7df6bf ("ring-buffer: read page interface")
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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commit fa8f4a89736b654125fb254b0db753ac68a5fced upstream.

If a page is partially read, and then the splice system call is run
against the ring buffer, it will always fail to read, no matter how much
is in the ring buffer. That's because the code path for a partial read of
the page does will fail if the "full" flag is set.

The splice system call wants full pages, so if the read of the ring buffer
is not yet full, it should return zero, and the splice will block. But if
a previous read was done, where the beginning has been consumed, it should
still be given to the splice caller if the rest of the page has been
written to.

This caused the splice command to never consume data in this scenario, and
let the ring buffer just fill up and lose events.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927144317.46be6b80@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8789a9e7df6bf ("ring-buffer: read page interface")
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: Have 32 bit time stamps use all 64 bits</title>
<updated>2022-04-27T21:19:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-27T21:08:12+00:00</published>
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When the new logic was made to handle deltas of events from interrupts
that interrupted other events, it required 64 bit local atomics.
Unfortunately, 64 bit local atomics are expensive on 32 bit architectures.
Thus, commit 10464b4aa605e ("ring-buffer: Add rb_time_t 64 bit operations
for speeding up 32 bit") created a type of seq lock timer for 32 bits.
It used two 32 bit local atomics, but required 2 bits from them each for
synchronization, making it only 60 bits.

Add a new "msb" field to hold the extra 4 bits that are cut off.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220426175338.3807ca4f@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427170812.53cc7139@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When the new logic was made to handle deltas of events from interrupts
that interrupted other events, it required 64 bit local atomics.
Unfortunately, 64 bit local atomics are expensive on 32 bit architectures.
Thus, commit 10464b4aa605e ("ring-buffer: Add rb_time_t 64 bit operations
for speeding up 32 bit") created a type of seq lock timer for 32 bits.
It used two 32 bit local atomics, but required 2 bits from them each for
synchronization, making it only 60 bits.

Add a new "msb" field to hold the extra 4 bits that are cut off.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220426175338.3807ca4f@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427170812.53cc7139@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Have absolute time stamps handle large numbers</title>
<updated>2022-04-27T19:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-27T19:33:39+00:00</published>
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There's an absolute timestamp event in the ring buffer, but this only
saves 59 bits of the timestamp, as the 5 MSB is used for meta data
(stating it is an absolute time stamp). This was never an issue as all the
clocks currently in use never used those 5 MSB. But now there's a new
clock (TAI) that does.

To handle this case, when reading an absolute timestamp, a previous full
timestamp is passed in, and the 5 MSB of that timestamp is OR'd to the
absolute timestamp (if any of the 5 MSB are set), and then to test for
overflow, if the new result is smaller than the passed in previous
timestamp, then 1 &lt;&lt; 59 is added to it.

All the extra processing is done on the reader "slow" path, with the
exception of the "too big delta" check, and the reading of timestamps
for histograms.

Note, libtraceevent will need to be updated to handle this case as well.
But this is not a user space regression, as user space was never able to
handle any timestamps that used more than 59 bits.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220426175338.3807ca4f@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427153339.16c33f75@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kurt Kanzenbach &lt;kurt@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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There's an absolute timestamp event in the ring buffer, but this only
saves 59 bits of the timestamp, as the 5 MSB is used for meta data
(stating it is an absolute time stamp). This was never an issue as all the
clocks currently in use never used those 5 MSB. But now there's a new
clock (TAI) that does.

To handle this case, when reading an absolute timestamp, a previous full
timestamp is passed in, and the 5 MSB of that timestamp is OR'd to the
absolute timestamp (if any of the 5 MSB are set), and then to test for
overflow, if the new result is smaller than the passed in previous
timestamp, then 1 &lt;&lt; 59 is added to it.

All the extra processing is done on the reader "slow" path, with the
exception of the "too big delta" check, and the reading of timestamps
for histograms.

Note, libtraceevent will need to be updated to handle this case as well.
But this is not a user space regression, as user space was never able to
handle any timestamps that used more than 59 bits.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220426175338.3807ca4f@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427153339.16c33f75@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kurt Kanzenbach &lt;kurt@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Simplify if-if to if-else</title>
<updated>2022-04-26T21:58:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wan Jiabing</name>
<email>wanjiabing@vivo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-26T07:06:28+00:00</published>
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Use if and else instead of if(A) and if (!A).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220426070628.167565-1-wanjiabing@vivo.com

Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing &lt;wanjiabing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Use if and else instead of if(A) and if (!A).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220426070628.167565-1-wanjiabing@vivo.com

Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing &lt;wanjiabing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: make use of the helper function kthread_run_on_cpu()</title>
<updated>2022-01-15T14:30:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cai Huoqing</name>
<email>caihuoqing@baidu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-14T22:02:59+00:00</published>
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Replace kthread_create/kthread_bind/wake_up_process() with
kthread_run_on_cpu() to simplify the code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022025711.3673-4-caihuoqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Cai Huoqing &lt;caihuoqing@baidu.com&gt;
Cc: Bernard Metzler &lt;bmt@zurich.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Replace kthread_create/kthread_bind/wake_up_process() with
kthread_run_on_cpu() to simplify the code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022025711.3673-4-caihuoqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Cai Huoqing &lt;caihuoqing@baidu.com&gt;
Cc: Bernard Metzler &lt;bmt@zurich.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>ring-buffer: Protect ring_buffer_reset() from reentrancy</title>
<updated>2021-11-10T16:56:29+00:00</updated>
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<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2021-11-08T15:58:10+00:00</published>
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The resetting of the entire ring buffer use to simply go through and reset
each individual CPU buffer that had its own protection and synchronization.
But this was very slow, due to performing a synchronization for each CPU.
The code was reshuffled to do one disabling of all CPU buffers, followed
by a single RCU synchronization, and then the resetting of each of the CPU
buffers. But unfortunately, the mutex that prevented multiple occurrences
of resetting the buffer was not moved to the upper function, and there is
nothing to protect from it.

Take the ring buffer mutex around the global reset.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b23d7a5f4a07a ("ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU")
Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" &lt;tz.stoyanov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The resetting of the entire ring buffer use to simply go through and reset
each individual CPU buffer that had its own protection and synchronization.
But this was very slow, due to performing a synchronization for each CPU.
The code was reshuffled to do one disabling of all CPU buffers, followed
by a single RCU synchronization, and then the resetting of each of the CPU
buffers. But unfortunately, the mutex that prevented multiple occurrences
of resetting the buffer was not moved to the upper function, and there is
nothing to protect from it.

Take the ring buffer mutex around the global reset.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b23d7a5f4a07a ("ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU")
Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" &lt;tz.stoyanov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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