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<title>blktrace: break out of blktrace setup on concurrent calls</title>
<updated>2020-06-30T00:08:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis Chamberlain</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-05T14:58:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1b0b283648163dae2a214ca28ed5a99f62a77319 ]

We use one blktrace per request_queue, that means one per the entire
disk.  So we cannot run one blktrace on say /dev/vda and then /dev/vda1,
or just two calls on /dev/vda.

We check for concurrent setup only at the very end of the blktrace setup though.

If we try to run two concurrent blktraces on the same block device the
second one will fail, and the first one seems to go on. However when
one tries to kill the first one one will see things like this:

The kernel will show these:

```
debugfs: File 'dropped' in directory 'nvme1n1' already present!
debugfs: File 'msg' in directory 'nvme1n1' already present!
debugfs: File 'trace0' in directory 'nvme1n1' already present!
``

And userspace just sees this error message for the second call:

```
blktrace /dev/nvme1n1
BLKTRACESETUP(2) /dev/nvme1n1 failed: 5/Input/output error
```

The first userspace process #1 will also claim that the files
were taken underneath their nose as well. The files are taken
away form the first process given that when the second blktrace
fails, it will follow up with a BLKTRACESTOP and BLKTRACETEARDOWN.
This means that even if go-happy process #1 is waiting for blktrace
data, we *have* been asked to take teardown the blktrace.

This can easily be reproduced with break-blktrace [0] run_0005.sh test.

Just break out early if we know we're already going to fail, this will
prevent trying to create the files all over again, which we know still
exist.

[0] https://github.com/mcgrof/break-blktrace

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1b0b283648163dae2a214ca28ed5a99f62a77319 ]

We use one blktrace per request_queue, that means one per the entire
disk.  So we cannot run one blktrace on say /dev/vda and then /dev/vda1,
or just two calls on /dev/vda.

We check for concurrent setup only at the very end of the blktrace setup though.

If we try to run two concurrent blktraces on the same block device the
second one will fail, and the first one seems to go on. However when
one tries to kill the first one one will see things like this:

The kernel will show these:

```
debugfs: File 'dropped' in directory 'nvme1n1' already present!
debugfs: File 'msg' in directory 'nvme1n1' already present!
debugfs: File 'trace0' in directory 'nvme1n1' already present!
``

And userspace just sees this error message for the second call:

```
blktrace /dev/nvme1n1
BLKTRACESETUP(2) /dev/nvme1n1 failed: 5/Input/output error
```

The first userspace process #1 will also claim that the files
were taken underneath their nose as well. The files are taken
away form the first process given that when the second blktrace
fails, it will follow up with a BLKTRACESTOP and BLKTRACETEARDOWN.
This means that even if go-happy process #1 is waiting for blktrace
data, we *have* been asked to take teardown the blktrace.

This can easily be reproduced with break-blktrace [0] run_0005.sh test.

Just break out early if we know we're already going to fail, this will
prevent trying to create the files all over again, which we know still
exist.

[0] https://github.com/mcgrof/break-blktrace

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blktrace: fix dereference after null check</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:11:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cengiz Can</name>
<email>cengiz@kernel.wtf</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-04T10:58:19+00:00</published>
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commit 153031a301bb07194e9c37466cfce8eacb977621 upstream.

There was a recent change in blktrace.c that added a RCU protection to
`q-&gt;blk_trace` in order to fix a use-after-free issue during access.

However the change missed an edge case that can lead to dereferencing of
`bt` pointer even when it's NULL:

Coverity static analyzer marked this as a FORWARD_NULL issue with CID
1460458.

```
/kernel/trace/blktrace.c: 1904 in sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store()
1898            ret = 0;
1899            if (bt == NULL)
1900                    ret = blk_trace_setup_queue(q, bdev);
1901
1902            if (ret == 0) {
1903                    if (attr == &amp;dev_attr_act_mask)
&gt;&gt;&gt;     CID 1460458:  Null pointer dereferences  (FORWARD_NULL)
&gt;&gt;&gt;     Dereferencing null pointer "bt".
1904                            bt-&gt;act_mask = value;
1905                    else if (attr == &amp;dev_attr_pid)
1906                            bt-&gt;pid = value;
1907                    else if (attr == &amp;dev_attr_start_lba)
1908                            bt-&gt;start_lba = value;
1909                    else if (attr == &amp;dev_attr_end_lba)
```

Added a reassignment with RCU annotation to fix the issue.

Fixes: c780e86dd48 ("blktrace: Protect q-&gt;blk_trace with RCU")
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can &lt;cengiz@kernel.wtf&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 153031a301bb07194e9c37466cfce8eacb977621 upstream.

There was a recent change in blktrace.c that added a RCU protection to
`q-&gt;blk_trace` in order to fix a use-after-free issue during access.

However the change missed an edge case that can lead to dereferencing of
`bt` pointer even when it's NULL:

Coverity static analyzer marked this as a FORWARD_NULL issue with CID
1460458.

```
/kernel/trace/blktrace.c: 1904 in sysfs_blk_trace_attr_store()
1898            ret = 0;
1899            if (bt == NULL)
1900                    ret = blk_trace_setup_queue(q, bdev);
1901
1902            if (ret == 0) {
1903                    if (attr == &amp;dev_attr_act_mask)
&gt;&gt;&gt;     CID 1460458:  Null pointer dereferences  (FORWARD_NULL)
&gt;&gt;&gt;     Dereferencing null pointer "bt".
1904                            bt-&gt;act_mask = value;
1905                    else if (attr == &amp;dev_attr_pid)
1906                            bt-&gt;pid = value;
1907                    else if (attr == &amp;dev_attr_start_lba)
1908                            bt-&gt;start_lba = value;
1909                    else if (attr == &amp;dev_attr_end_lba)
```

Added a reassignment with RCU annotation to fix the issue.

Fixes: c780e86dd48 ("blktrace: Protect q-&gt;blk_trace with RCU")
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can &lt;cengiz@kernel.wtf&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blktrace: Protect q-&gt;blk_trace with RCU</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-06T14:28:12+00:00</published>
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commit c780e86dd48ef6467a1146cf7d0fe1e05a635039 upstream.

KASAN is reporting that __blk_add_trace() has a use-after-free issue
when accessing q-&gt;blk_trace. Indeed the switching of block tracing (and
thus eventual freeing of q-&gt;blk_trace) is completely unsynchronized with
the currently running tracing and thus it can happen that the blk_trace
structure is being freed just while __blk_add_trace() works on it.
Protect accesses to q-&gt;blk_trace by RCU during tracing and make sure we
wait for the end of RCU grace period when shutting down tracing. Luckily
that is rare enough event that we can afford that. Note that postponing
the freeing of blk_trace to an RCU callback should better be avoided as
it could have unexpected user visible side-effects as debugfs files
would be still existing for a short while block tracing has been shut
down.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205711
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reported-by: Tristan Madani &lt;tristmd@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4:
 - Drop changes in blk_trace_note_message_enabled(), blk_trace_bio_get_cgid()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c780e86dd48ef6467a1146cf7d0fe1e05a635039 upstream.

KASAN is reporting that __blk_add_trace() has a use-after-free issue
when accessing q-&gt;blk_trace. Indeed the switching of block tracing (and
thus eventual freeing of q-&gt;blk_trace) is completely unsynchronized with
the currently running tracing and thus it can happen that the blk_trace
structure is being freed just while __blk_add_trace() works on it.
Protect accesses to q-&gt;blk_trace by RCU during tracing and make sure we
wait for the end of RCU grace period when shutting down tracing. Luckily
that is rare enough event that we can afford that. Note that postponing
the freeing of blk_trace to an RCU callback should better be avoided as
it could have unexpected user visible side-effects as debugfs files
would be still existing for a short while block tracing has been shut
down.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205711
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reported-by: Tristan Madani &lt;tristmd@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4:
 - Drop changes in blk_trace_note_message_enabled(), blk_trace_bio_get_cgid()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>blktrace: fix trace mutex deadlock</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-19T18:52:55+00:00</published>
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commit 2967acbb257a6a9bf912f4778b727e00972eac9b upstream.

A previous commit changed the locking around registration/cleanup,
but direct callers of blk_trace_remove() were missed. This means
that if we hit the error path in setup, we will deadlock on
attempting to re-acquire the queue trace mutex.

Fixes: 1f2cac107c59 ("blktrace: fix unlocked access to init/start-stop/teardown")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2967acbb257a6a9bf912f4778b727e00972eac9b upstream.

A previous commit changed the locking around registration/cleanup,
but direct callers of blk_trace_remove() were missed. This means
that if we hit the error path in setup, we will deadlock on
attempting to re-acquire the queue trace mutex.

Fixes: 1f2cac107c59 ("blktrace: fix unlocked access to init/start-stop/teardown")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blktrace: fix unlocked access to init/start-stop/teardown</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-05T16:13:48+00:00</published>
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commit 1f2cac107c591c24b60b115d6050adc213d10fc0 upstream.

sg.c calls into the blktrace functions without holding the proper queue
mutex for doing setup, start/stop, or teardown.

Add internal unlocked variants, and export the ones that do the proper
locking.

Fixes: 6da127ad0918 ("blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices")
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1f2cac107c591c24b60b115d6050adc213d10fc0 upstream.

sg.c calls into the blktrace functions without holding the proper queue
mutex for doing setup, start/stop, or teardown.

Add internal unlocked variants, and export the ones that do the proper
locking.

Fixes: 6da127ad0918 ("blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices")
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete &amp; sysfs ops</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:11:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-20T19:12:20+00:00</published>
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commit 5acb3cc2c2e9d3020a4fee43763c6463767f1572 upstream.

The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(s_active#228);
                               lock(&amp;bdev-&gt;bd_mutex/1);
                               lock(s_active#228);
  lock(&amp;bdev-&gt;bd_mutex);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a
partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing
tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that
partition.

The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn-&gt;count)
on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require
a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is
treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code.

The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the
ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device
file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being
removed.

Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new
blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect
access to the blk_trace structure.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;

Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how
the code used to work.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 5acb3cc2c2e9d3020a4fee43763c6463767f1572 upstream.

The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(s_active#228);
                               lock(&amp;bdev-&gt;bd_mutex/1);
                               lock(s_active#228);
  lock(&amp;bdev-&gt;bd_mutex);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a
partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing
tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that
partition.

The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn-&gt;count)
on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require
a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is
treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code.

The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the
ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device
file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being
removed.

Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new
blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect
access to the blk_trace structure.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;

Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how
the code used to work.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/blktrace: Fix to allow setting same value</title>
<updated>2018-09-09T18:04:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-16T20:08:37+00:00</published>
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commit 757d9140072054528b13bbe291583d9823cde195 upstream.

Masami Hiramatsu reported:

  Current trace-enable attribute in sysfs returns an error
  if user writes the same setting value as current one,
  e.g.

    # cat /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    0
    # echo 0 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
    # echo 1 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    # echo 1 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy

  But this is not a preferred behavior, it should ignore
  if new setting is same as current one. This fixes the
  problem as below.

    # cat /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    0
    # echo 0 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    # echo 1 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    # echo 1 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180816103802.08678002@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: cd649b8bb830d ("blktrace: remove sysfs_blk_trace_enable_show/store()")
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 757d9140072054528b13bbe291583d9823cde195 upstream.

Masami Hiramatsu reported:

  Current trace-enable attribute in sysfs returns an error
  if user writes the same setting value as current one,
  e.g.

    # cat /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    0
    # echo 0 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
    # echo 1 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    # echo 1 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy

  But this is not a preferred behavior, it should ignore
  if new setting is same as current one. This fixes the
  problem as below.

    # cat /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    0
    # echo 0 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    # echo 1 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    # echo 1 &gt; /sys/block/sda/trace/enable

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180816103802.08678002@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: cd649b8bb830d ("blktrace: remove sysfs_blk_trace_enable_show/store()")
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>blktrace: fix unlocked registration of tracepoints</title>
<updated>2018-02-25T10:03:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-05T16:16:09+00:00</published>
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commit a6da0024ffc19e0d47712bb5ca4fd083f76b07df upstream.

We need to ensure that tracepoints are registered and unregistered
with the users of them. The existing atomic count isn't enough for
that. Add a lock around the tracepoints, so we serialize access
to them.

This fixes cases where we have multiple users setting up and
tearing down tracepoints, like this:

CPU: 0 PID: 2995 Comm: syzkaller857118 Not tainted
4.14.0-rc5-next-20171018+ #36
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline]
  dump_stack+0x194/0x257 lib/dump_stack.c:52
  panic+0x1e4/0x41c kernel/panic.c:183
  __warn+0x1c4/0x1e0 kernel/panic.c:546
  report_bug+0x211/0x2d0 lib/bug.c:183
  fixup_bug+0x40/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:177
  do_trap_no_signal arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:211 [inline]
  do_trap+0x260/0x390 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:260
  do_error_trap+0x120/0x390 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:297
  do_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:310
  invalid_op+0x18/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:905
RIP: 0010:tracepoint_add_func kernel/tracepoint.c:210 [inline]
RIP: 0010:tracepoint_probe_register_prio+0x397/0x9a0 kernel/tracepoint.c:283
RSP: 0018:ffff8801d1d1f6c0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffff8801d22e8540 RBX: 00000000ffffffef RCX: ffffffff81710f07
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff85b679c0 RDI: ffff8801d5f19818
RBP: ffff8801d1d1f7c8 R08: ffffffff81710c10 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: ffff8801d1d1f6b0 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffffffff817597f0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: ffff8801d1d1f7a0
  tracepoint_probe_register+0x2a/0x40 kernel/tracepoint.c:304
  register_trace_block_rq_insert include/trace/events/block.h:191 [inline]
  blk_register_tracepoints+0x1e/0x2f0 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:1043
  do_blk_trace_setup+0xa10/0xcf0 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:542
  blk_trace_setup+0xbd/0x180 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:564
  sg_ioctl+0xc71/0x2d90 drivers/scsi/sg.c:1089
  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:45 [inline]
  do_vfs_ioctl+0x1b1/0x1520 fs/ioctl.c:685
  SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:700 [inline]
  SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:691
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x444339
RSP: 002b:00007ffe05bb5b18 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000006d66c0 RCX: 0000000000444339
RDX: 000000002084cf90 RSI: 00000000c0481273 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 0000000000000082 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: ffffffffffffffff
R13: 00000000c0481273 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

since we can now run these in parallel. Ensure that the exported helpers
for doing this are grabbing the queue trace mutex.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a6da0024ffc19e0d47712bb5ca4fd083f76b07df upstream.

We need to ensure that tracepoints are registered and unregistered
with the users of them. The existing atomic count isn't enough for
that. Add a lock around the tracepoints, so we serialize access
to them.

This fixes cases where we have multiple users setting up and
tearing down tracepoints, like this:

CPU: 0 PID: 2995 Comm: syzkaller857118 Not tainted
4.14.0-rc5-next-20171018+ #36
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline]
  dump_stack+0x194/0x257 lib/dump_stack.c:52
  panic+0x1e4/0x41c kernel/panic.c:183
  __warn+0x1c4/0x1e0 kernel/panic.c:546
  report_bug+0x211/0x2d0 lib/bug.c:183
  fixup_bug+0x40/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:177
  do_trap_no_signal arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:211 [inline]
  do_trap+0x260/0x390 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:260
  do_error_trap+0x120/0x390 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:297
  do_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:310
  invalid_op+0x18/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:905
RIP: 0010:tracepoint_add_func kernel/tracepoint.c:210 [inline]
RIP: 0010:tracepoint_probe_register_prio+0x397/0x9a0 kernel/tracepoint.c:283
RSP: 0018:ffff8801d1d1f6c0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffff8801d22e8540 RBX: 00000000ffffffef RCX: ffffffff81710f07
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff85b679c0 RDI: ffff8801d5f19818
RBP: ffff8801d1d1f7c8 R08: ffffffff81710c10 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: ffff8801d1d1f6b0 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffffffff817597f0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: ffff8801d1d1f7a0
  tracepoint_probe_register+0x2a/0x40 kernel/tracepoint.c:304
  register_trace_block_rq_insert include/trace/events/block.h:191 [inline]
  blk_register_tracepoints+0x1e/0x2f0 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:1043
  do_blk_trace_setup+0xa10/0xcf0 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:542
  blk_trace_setup+0xbd/0x180 kernel/trace/blktrace.c:564
  sg_ioctl+0xc71/0x2d90 drivers/scsi/sg.c:1089
  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:45 [inline]
  do_vfs_ioctl+0x1b1/0x1520 fs/ioctl.c:685
  SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:700 [inline]
  SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:691
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x444339
RSP: 002b:00007ffe05bb5b18 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000006d66c0 RCX: 0000000000444339
RDX: 000000002084cf90 RSI: 00000000c0481273 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 0000000000000082 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: ffffffffffffffff
R13: 00000000c0481273 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

since we can now run these in parallel. Ensure that the exported helpers
for doing this are grabbing the queue trace mutex.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T21:30:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T21:30:20+00:00</published>
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Pull tracking updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Most of the changes are clean ups and small fixes.  Some of them have
  stable tags to them.  I searched through my INBOX just as the merge
  window opened and found lots of patches to pull.  I ran them through
  all my tests and they were in linux-next for a few days.

  Features added this release:
  ----------------------------

   - Module globbing.  You can now filter function tracing to several
     modules.  # echo '*:mod:*snd*' &gt; set_ftrace_filter (Dmitry Safonov)

   - Tracer specific options are now visible even when the tracer is not
     active.  It was rather annoying that you can only see and modify
     tracer options after enabling the tracer.  Now they are in the
     options/ directory even when the tracer is not active.  Although
     they are still only visible when the tracer is active in the
     trace_options file.

   - Trace options are now per instance (although some of the tracer
     specific options are global)

   - New tracefs file: set_event_pid.  If any pid is added to this file,
     then all events in the instance will filter out events that are not
     part of this pid.  sched_switch and sched_wakeup events handle next
     and the wakee pids"

* tag 'trace-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits)
  tracefs: Fix refcount imbalance in start_creating()
  tracing: Put back comma for empty fields in boot string parsing
  tracing: Apply tracer specific options from kernel command line.
  tracing: Add some documentation about set_event_pid
  ring_buffer: Remove unneeded smp_wmb() before wakeup of reader benchmark
  tracing: Allow dumping traces without tracking trace started cpus
  ring_buffer: Fix more races when terminating the producer in the benchmark
  ring_buffer: Do no not complete benchmark reader too early
  tracing: Remove redundant TP_ARGS redefining
  tracing: Rename max_stack_lock to stack_trace_max_lock
  tracing: Allow arch-specific stack tracer
  recordmcount: arm64: Replace the ignored mcount call into nop
  recordmcount: Fix endianness handling bug for nop_mcount
  tracepoints: Fix documentation of RCU lockdep checks
  tracing: ftrace_event_is_function() can return boolean
  tracing: is_legal_op() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_event_is_commit() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_per_cpu_empty() can return boolean
  ring_buffer: ring_buffer_empty{cpu}() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_is_reader_page() can return boolean
  ...
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Pull tracking updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Most of the changes are clean ups and small fixes.  Some of them have
  stable tags to them.  I searched through my INBOX just as the merge
  window opened and found lots of patches to pull.  I ran them through
  all my tests and they were in linux-next for a few days.

  Features added this release:
  ----------------------------

   - Module globbing.  You can now filter function tracing to several
     modules.  # echo '*:mod:*snd*' &gt; set_ftrace_filter (Dmitry Safonov)

   - Tracer specific options are now visible even when the tracer is not
     active.  It was rather annoying that you can only see and modify
     tracer options after enabling the tracer.  Now they are in the
     options/ directory even when the tracer is not active.  Although
     they are still only visible when the tracer is active in the
     trace_options file.

   - Trace options are now per instance (although some of the tracer
     specific options are global)

   - New tracefs file: set_event_pid.  If any pid is added to this file,
     then all events in the instance will filter out events that are not
     part of this pid.  sched_switch and sched_wakeup events handle next
     and the wakee pids"

* tag 'trace-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits)
  tracefs: Fix refcount imbalance in start_creating()
  tracing: Put back comma for empty fields in boot string parsing
  tracing: Apply tracer specific options from kernel command line.
  tracing: Add some documentation about set_event_pid
  ring_buffer: Remove unneeded smp_wmb() before wakeup of reader benchmark
  tracing: Allow dumping traces without tracking trace started cpus
  ring_buffer: Fix more races when terminating the producer in the benchmark
  ring_buffer: Do no not complete benchmark reader too early
  tracing: Remove redundant TP_ARGS redefining
  tracing: Rename max_stack_lock to stack_trace_max_lock
  tracing: Allow arch-specific stack tracer
  recordmcount: arm64: Replace the ignored mcount call into nop
  recordmcount: Fix endianness handling bug for nop_mcount
  tracepoints: Fix documentation of RCU lockdep checks
  tracing: ftrace_event_is_function() can return boolean
  tracing: is_legal_op() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_event_is_commit() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_per_cpu_empty() can return boolean
  ring_buffer: ring_buffer_empty{cpu}() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_is_reader_page() can return boolean
  ...
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<entry>
<title>blktrace: re-write setting q-&gt;blk_trace</title>
<updated>2015-10-29T20:25:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.ne</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-29T20:25:59+00:00</published>
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This is really about simplifying the double xchg patterns into
a single cmpxchg, with the same logic. Other than the immediate
cleanup, there are some subtleties this change deals with:

(i) While the load of the old bt is fully ordered wrt everything,
ie:

        old_bt = xchg(&amp;q-&gt;blk_trace, bt);             [barrier]
        if (old_bt)
	     (void) xchg(&amp;q-&gt;blk_trace, old_bt);    [barrier]

blk_trace could still be changed between the xchg and the old_bt
load. Note that this description is merely theoretical and afaict
very small, but doing everything in a single context with cmpxchg
closes this potential race.

(ii) Ordering guarantees are obviously kept with cmpxchg.

(iii) Gets rid of the hacky-by-nature (void)xchg pattern.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
eviewed-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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This is really about simplifying the double xchg patterns into
a single cmpxchg, with the same logic. Other than the immediate
cleanup, there are some subtleties this change deals with:

(i) While the load of the old bt is fully ordered wrt everything,
ie:

        old_bt = xchg(&amp;q-&gt;blk_trace, bt);             [barrier]
        if (old_bt)
	     (void) xchg(&amp;q-&gt;blk_trace, old_bt);    [barrier]

blk_trace could still be changed between the xchg and the old_bt
load. Note that this description is merely theoretical and afaict
very small, but doing everything in a single context with cmpxchg
closes this potential race.

(ii) Ordering guarantees are obviously kept with cmpxchg.

(iii) Gets rid of the hacky-by-nature (void)xchg pattern.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
eviewed-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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