Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752889AbdHBSRq (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2017 14:17:46 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54838 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751753AbdHBSRo (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2017 14:17:44 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org B1D4422C91 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=rostedt@goodmis.org Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 14:17:41 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Chunyu Hu Cc: Chunyu Hu , Ingo Molnar , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix trace_pipe_raw read panic Message-ID: <20170802141741.0b849ec5@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3789 Lines: 120 On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 19:03:50 +0800 Chunyu Hu wrote: > Thanks for the comments and review! > OK, I did a bisect to see where this bug happened, and discovered that it's the creation of the allocated reader pages. I don't like this solution because it places the work to know what buffers are available to the users of the ring buffer. The ring buffer should be robust enough to handle it itself. I wrote up this patch instead, and I think this is the better solution. As it doesn't require the users of the ring buffer to know what CPUs are allocated or not. -- Steve diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 529cc50..81279c6 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -4386,15 +4386,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_swap_cpu); * the page that was allocated, with the read page of the buffer. * * Returns: - * The page allocated, or NULL on error. + * The page allocated, or ERR_PTR */ void *ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu) { - struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; + struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer; struct buffer_data_page *bpage = NULL; unsigned long flags; struct page *page; + if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, buffer->cpumask)) + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); + + cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; local_irq_save(flags); arch_spin_lock(&cpu_buffer->lock); @@ -4412,7 +4416,7 @@ void *ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu) page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 0); if (!page) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); bpage = page_address(page); @@ -4467,8 +4471,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_free_read_page); * * for example: * rpage = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(buffer, cpu); - * if (!rpage) - * return error; + * if (IS_ERR(rpage)) + * return PTR_ERR(rpage); * ret = ring_buffer_read_page(buffer, &rpage, len, cpu, 0); * if (ret >= 0) * process_page(rpage, ret); diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c index 9fbcaf5..68ee79a 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static enum event_status read_page(int cpu) int i; bpage = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(buffer, cpu); - if (!bpage) + if (IS_ERR(bpage)) return EVENT_DROPPED; ret = ring_buffer_read_page(buffer, &bpage, PAGE_SIZE, cpu, 1); diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 42b9355..3edba2f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -6598,7 +6598,7 @@ tracing_buffers_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, { struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = filp->private_data; struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter; - ssize_t ret; + ssize_t ret = 0; ssize_t size; if (!count) @@ -6612,10 +6612,15 @@ tracing_buffers_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, if (!info->spare) { info->spare = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(iter->trace_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file); - info->spare_cpu = iter->cpu_file; + if (IS_ERR(info->spare)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(info->spare); + info->spare = NULL; + } else { + info->spare_cpu = iter->cpu_file; + } } if (!info->spare) - return -ENOMEM; + return ret; /* Do we have previous read data to read? */ if (info->read < PAGE_SIZE) @@ -6790,8 +6795,9 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, ref->ref = 1; ref->buffer = iter->trace_buffer->buffer; ref->page = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(ref->buffer, iter->cpu_file); - if (!ref->page) { - ret = -ENOMEM; + if (IS_ERR(ref->page)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(ref->page); + ref->page = NULL; kfree(ref); break; }