Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754425Ab3HBSP6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:15:58 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com ([209.85.214.182]:62407 "EHLO mail-ob0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751829Ab3HBSP5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:15:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org> References: <1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org> From: David Sharp Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:15:36 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: a few fields of struct trace_iterator are zeroed by mistake To: Andrew Vagin Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Steven Rostedt , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Hiraku Toyooka , Arjan van de Ven , Masami Hiramatsu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3206 Lines: 86 On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Andrew Vagin wrote: > tracing_read_pipe zeros all fields bellow "seq". The declaration contains > a comment about that, but it doesn't help. > > The first field is "snapshot", it's true when current open file is > snapshot. Looks obvious, that it should not be zeroed. > > The second field is "started". It was converted from cpumask_t to > cpumask_var_t (v2.6.28-4983-g4462344) or by another words it was > converted from cpumask to pointer on cpumask. > > Currently the reference on "started" memory is lost after the first read > from tracing_read_pipe and a proper object will never be freed. > > The "started" is never dereferenced for trace_pipe, because trace_pipe > can't have the TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE options (why?). > > Cc: Steven Rostedt > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: David Sharp > Cc: Hiraku Toyooka > Cc: Arjan van de Ven > Cc: Masami Hiramatsu > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin > --- > include/linux/ftrace_event.h | 10 ++++++---- > kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 + > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h > index 4372658..44cdc11 100644 > --- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h > +++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h > @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ struct trace_iterator { > /* trace_seq for __print_flags() and __print_symbolic() etc. */ > struct trace_seq tmp_seq; > > + cpumask_var_t started; > + > + /* it's true when current open file is snapshot */ > + bool snapshot; > + > /* The below is zeroed out in pipe_read */ > struct trace_seq seq; > struct trace_entry *ent; > @@ -90,10 +95,7 @@ struct trace_iterator { > loff_t pos; > long idx; > > - cpumask_var_t started; > - > - /* it's true when current open file is snapshot */ > - bool snapshot; > + /* All new field here will be zeroed out in pipe_read */ Wow. That is a terrible hack. Thanks for noticing it. If I may suggest a way better idea: put these zeroed-in-pipe_read members in an embedded anonymous structure, and zero the structure in pipe_read. > }; > > enum trace_iter_flags { > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c > index 0cd500b..897f553 100644 > --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c > @@ -4166,6 +4166,7 @@ waitagain: > memset(&iter->seq, 0, > sizeof(struct trace_iterator) - > offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq)); > + cpumask_clear(iter->started); > iter->pos = -1; > > trace_event_read_lock(); > -- > 1.7.1 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/