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<title>ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction</title>
<updated>2023-05-17T09:35:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T15:59:20+00:00</published>
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commit 675751bb20634f981498c7d66161584080cc061e upstream.

If something was written to the buffer just before destruction,
it may be possible (maybe not in a real system, but it did
happen in ARCH=um with time-travel) to destroy the ringbuffer
before the IRQ work ran, leading this KASAN report (or a crash
without KASAN):

    BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
    Read of size 8 at addr 000000006d640a48 by task swapper/0

    CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G        W  O       6.3.0-rc1 #7
    Stack:
     60c4f20f 0c203d48 41b58ab3 60f224fc
     600477fa 60f35687 60c4f20f 601273dd
     00000008 6101eb00 6101eab0 615be548
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;60047a58&gt;] show_stack+0x25e/0x282
     [&lt;60c609e0&gt;] dump_stack_lvl+0x96/0xfd
     [&lt;60c50d4c&gt;] print_report+0x1a7/0x5a8
     [&lt;603078d3&gt;] kasan_report+0xc1/0xe9
     [&lt;60308950&gt;] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1b/0x1d
     [&lt;60232844&gt;] irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
     [&lt;602328b4&gt;] irq_work_tick+0x24/0x34
     [&lt;6017f9dc&gt;] update_process_times+0x162/0x196
     [&lt;6019f335&gt;] tick_sched_handle+0x1a4/0x1c3
     [&lt;6019fd9e&gt;] tick_sched_timer+0x79/0x10c
     [&lt;601812b9&gt;] __hrtimer_run_queues.constprop.0+0x425/0x695
     [&lt;60182913&gt;] hrtimer_interrupt+0x16c/0x2c4
     [&lt;600486a3&gt;] um_timer+0x164/0x183
     [...]

    Allocated by task 411:
     save_stack_trace+0x99/0xb5
     stack_trace_save+0x81/0x9b
     kasan_save_stack+0x2d/0x54
     kasan_set_track+0x34/0x3e
     kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x28
     ____kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0x97
     __kasan_kmalloc+0x10/0x12
     __kmalloc+0xb2/0xe8
     load_elf_phdrs+0xee/0x182
     [...]

    The buggy address belongs to the object at 000000006d640800
     which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
    The buggy address is located 584 bytes inside of
     freed 1024-byte region [000000006d640800, 000000006d640c00)

Add the appropriate irq_work_sync() so the work finishes before
the buffers are destroyed.

Prior to the commit in the Fixes tag below, there was only a
single global IRQ work, so this issue didn't exist.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230427175920.a76159263122.I8295e405c44362a86c995e9c2c37e3e03810aa56@changeid

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 15693458c4bc ("tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.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 675751bb20634f981498c7d66161584080cc061e upstream.

If something was written to the buffer just before destruction,
it may be possible (maybe not in a real system, but it did
happen in ARCH=um with time-travel) to destroy the ringbuffer
before the IRQ work ran, leading this KASAN report (or a crash
without KASAN):

    BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
    Read of size 8 at addr 000000006d640a48 by task swapper/0

    CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G        W  O       6.3.0-rc1 #7
    Stack:
     60c4f20f 0c203d48 41b58ab3 60f224fc
     600477fa 60f35687 60c4f20f 601273dd
     00000008 6101eb00 6101eab0 615be548
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;60047a58&gt;] show_stack+0x25e/0x282
     [&lt;60c609e0&gt;] dump_stack_lvl+0x96/0xfd
     [&lt;60c50d4c&gt;] print_report+0x1a7/0x5a8
     [&lt;603078d3&gt;] kasan_report+0xc1/0xe9
     [&lt;60308950&gt;] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1b/0x1d
     [&lt;60232844&gt;] irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
     [&lt;602328b4&gt;] irq_work_tick+0x24/0x34
     [&lt;6017f9dc&gt;] update_process_times+0x162/0x196
     [&lt;6019f335&gt;] tick_sched_handle+0x1a4/0x1c3
     [&lt;6019fd9e&gt;] tick_sched_timer+0x79/0x10c
     [&lt;601812b9&gt;] __hrtimer_run_queues.constprop.0+0x425/0x695
     [&lt;60182913&gt;] hrtimer_interrupt+0x16c/0x2c4
     [&lt;600486a3&gt;] um_timer+0x164/0x183
     [...]

    Allocated by task 411:
     save_stack_trace+0x99/0xb5
     stack_trace_save+0x81/0x9b
     kasan_save_stack+0x2d/0x54
     kasan_set_track+0x34/0x3e
     kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x28
     ____kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0x97
     __kasan_kmalloc+0x10/0x12
     __kmalloc+0xb2/0xe8
     load_elf_phdrs+0xee/0x182
     [...]

    The buggy address belongs to the object at 000000006d640800
     which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
    The buggy address is located 584 bytes inside of
     freed 1024-byte region [000000006d640800, 000000006d640c00)

Add the appropriate irq_work_sync() so the work finishes before
the buffers are destroyed.

Prior to the commit in the Fixes tag below, there was only a
single global IRQ work, so this issue didn't exist.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230427175920.a76159263122.I8295e405c44362a86c995e9c2c37e3e03810aa56@changeid

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 15693458c4bc ("tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.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>
<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Fix race while reader and writer are on the same page</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T10:07:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zheng Yejian</name>
<email>zhengyejian1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-25T02:12:47+00:00</published>
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commit 6455b6163d8c680366663cdb8c679514d55fc30c upstream.

When user reads file 'trace_pipe', kernel keeps printing following logs
that warn at "cpu_buffer-&gt;reader_page-&gt;read &gt; rb_page_size(reader)" in
rb_get_reader_page(). It just looks like there's an infinite loop in
tracing_read_pipe(). This problem occurs several times on arm64 platform
when testing v5.10 and below.

  Call trace:
   rb_get_reader_page+0x248/0x1300
   rb_buffer_peek+0x34/0x160
   ring_buffer_peek+0xbc/0x224
   peek_next_entry+0x98/0xbc
   __find_next_entry+0xc4/0x1c0
   trace_find_next_entry_inc+0x30/0x94
   tracing_read_pipe+0x198/0x304
   vfs_read+0xb4/0x1e0
   ksys_read+0x74/0x100
   __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x30
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1bc
   do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x94
   el0_svc+0x20/0x30
   el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
   el0_sync+0x160/0x180

Then I dump the vmcore and look into the problematic per_cpu ring_buffer,
I found that tail_page/commit_page/reader_page are on the same page while
reader_page-&gt;read is obviously abnormal:
  tail_page == commit_page == reader_page == {
    .write = 0x100d20,
    .read = 0x8f9f4805,  // Far greater than 0xd20, obviously abnormal!!!
    .entries = 0x10004c,
    .real_end = 0x0,
    .page = {
      .time_stamp = 0x857257416af0,
      .commit = 0xd20,  // This page hasn't been full filled.
      // .data[0...0xd20] seems normal.
    }
 }

The root cause is most likely the race that reader and writer are on the
same page while reader saw an event that not fully committed by writer.

To fix this, add memory barriers to make sure the reader can see the
content of what is committed. Since commit a0fcaaed0c46 ("ring-buffer: Fix
race between reset page and reading page") has added the read barrier in
rb_get_reader_page(), here we just need to add the write barrier.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230325021247.2923907-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 77ae365eca89 ("ring-buffer: make lockless")
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.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 6455b6163d8c680366663cdb8c679514d55fc30c upstream.

When user reads file 'trace_pipe', kernel keeps printing following logs
that warn at "cpu_buffer-&gt;reader_page-&gt;read &gt; rb_page_size(reader)" in
rb_get_reader_page(). It just looks like there's an infinite loop in
tracing_read_pipe(). This problem occurs several times on arm64 platform
when testing v5.10 and below.

  Call trace:
   rb_get_reader_page+0x248/0x1300
   rb_buffer_peek+0x34/0x160
   ring_buffer_peek+0xbc/0x224
   peek_next_entry+0x98/0xbc
   __find_next_entry+0xc4/0x1c0
   trace_find_next_entry_inc+0x30/0x94
   tracing_read_pipe+0x198/0x304
   vfs_read+0xb4/0x1e0
   ksys_read+0x74/0x100
   __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x30
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1bc
   do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x94
   el0_svc+0x20/0x30
   el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
   el0_sync+0x160/0x180

Then I dump the vmcore and look into the problematic per_cpu ring_buffer,
I found that tail_page/commit_page/reader_page are on the same page while
reader_page-&gt;read is obviously abnormal:
  tail_page == commit_page == reader_page == {
    .write = 0x100d20,
    .read = 0x8f9f4805,  // Far greater than 0xd20, obviously abnormal!!!
    .entries = 0x10004c,
    .real_end = 0x0,
    .page = {
      .time_stamp = 0x857257416af0,
      .commit = 0xd20,  // This page hasn't been full filled.
      // .data[0...0xd20] seems normal.
    }
 }

The root cause is most likely the race that reader and writer are on the
same page while reader saw an event that not fully committed by writer.

To fix this, add memory barriers to make sure the reader can see the
content of what is committed. Since commit a0fcaaed0c46 ("ring-buffer: Fix
race between reset page and reading page") has added the read barrier in
rb_get_reader_page(), here we just need to add the write barrier.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230325021247.2923907-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 77ae365eca89 ("ring-buffer: make lockless")
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.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>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add NULL checks for buffer in ring_buffer_free_read_page()</title>
<updated>2023-03-11T15:44:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jia-Ju Bai</name>
<email>baijiaju1990@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-13T12:55:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3e4272b9954094907f16861199728f14002fcaf6 ]

In a previous commit 7433632c9ff6, buffer, buffer-&gt;buffers and
buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu] in ring_buffer_wake_waiters() can be NULL,
and thus the related checks are added.

However, in the same call stack, these variables are also used in
ring_buffer_free_read_page():

tracing_buffers_release()
  ring_buffer_wake_waiters(iter-&gt;array_buffer-&gt;buffer)
    cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu] -&gt; Add checks by previous commit
  ring_buffer_free_read_page(iter-&gt;array_buffer-&gt;buffer)
    cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu] -&gt; No check

Thus, to avod possible null-pointer derefernces, the related checks
should be added.

These results are reported by a static tool designed by myself.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113125501.760324-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com

Reported-by: TOTE Robot &lt;oslab@tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai &lt;baijiaju1990@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3e4272b9954094907f16861199728f14002fcaf6 ]

In a previous commit 7433632c9ff6, buffer, buffer-&gt;buffers and
buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu] in ring_buffer_wake_waiters() can be NULL,
and thus the related checks are added.

However, in the same call stack, these variables are also used in
ring_buffer_free_read_page():

tracing_buffers_release()
  ring_buffer_wake_waiters(iter-&gt;array_buffer-&gt;buffer)
    cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu] -&gt; Add checks by previous commit
  ring_buffer_free_read_page(iter-&gt;array_buffer-&gt;buffer)
    cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu] -&gt; No check

Thus, to avod possible null-pointer derefernces, the related checks
should be added.

These results are reported by a static tool designed by myself.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113125501.760324-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com

Reported-by: TOTE Robot &lt;oslab@tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai &lt;baijiaju1990@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/ring-buffer: Only do full wait when cpu != RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS</title>
<updated>2023-01-18T10:40:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pratyush Yadav</name>
<email>ptyadav@amazon.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-16T13:42:41+00:00</published>
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full_hit() directly uses cpu as an array index. Since
RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS == -1, calling full_hit() with cpu ==
RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS will cause an invalid memory access.

The upstream commit 42fb0a1e84ff ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling
block on watermark") already does this. This was missed when backporting
to v5.4.y.

This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.

Fixes: e65ac2bdda54 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling block on watermark")
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav &lt;ptyadav@amazon.de&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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full_hit() directly uses cpu as an array index. Since
RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS == -1, calling full_hit() with cpu ==
RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS will cause an invalid memory access.

The upstream commit 42fb0a1e84ff ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling
block on watermark") already does this. This was missed when backporting
to v5.4.y.

This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.

Fixes: e65ac2bdda54 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling block on watermark")
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav &lt;ptyadav@amazon.de&gt;
Acked-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>
<entry>
<title>tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling block on watermark</title>
<updated>2022-12-08T10:23:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-21T03:14:27+00:00</published>
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commit 42fb0a1e84ff525ebe560e2baf9451ab69127e2b upstream.

Currently the way polling works on the ring buffer is broken. It will
return immediately if there's any data in the ring buffer whereas a read
will block until the watermark (defined by the tracefs buffer_percent file)
is hit.

That is, a select() or poll() will return as if there's data available,
but then the following read will block. This is broken for the way
select()s and poll()s are supposed to work.

Have the polling on the ring buffer also block the same way reads and
splice does on the ring buffer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221020231427.41be3f26@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Linux Trace Kernel &lt;linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Primiano Tucci &lt;primiano@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1e0d6714aceb7 ("ring-buffer: Do not wake up a splice waiter when page is not full")
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 42fb0a1e84ff525ebe560e2baf9451ab69127e2b upstream.

Currently the way polling works on the ring buffer is broken. It will
return immediately if there's any data in the ring buffer whereas a read
will block until the watermark (defined by the tracefs buffer_percent file)
is hit.

That is, a select() or poll() will return as if there's data available,
but then the following read will block. This is broken for the way
select()s and poll()s are supposed to work.

Have the polling on the ring buffer also block the same way reads and
splice does on the ring buffer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221020231427.41be3f26@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Linux Trace Kernel &lt;linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Primiano Tucci &lt;primiano@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1e0d6714aceb7 ("ring-buffer: Do not wake up a splice waiter when page is not full")
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>
<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Include dropped pages in counting dirty patches</title>
<updated>2022-11-25T16:42:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-21T16:30:13+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 31029a8b2c7e656a0289194ef16415050ae4c4ac ]

The function ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages() was created to find out how many
pages are filled in the ring buffer. There's two running counters. One is
incremented whenever a new page is touched (pages_touched) and the other
is whenever a page is read (pages_read). The dirty count is the number
touched minus the number read. This is used to determine if a blocked task
should be woken up if the percentage of the ring buffer it is waiting for
is hit.

The problem is that it does not take into account dropped pages (when the
new writes overwrite pages that were not read). And then the dirty pages
will always be greater than the percentage.

This makes the "buffer_percent" file inaccurate, as the number of dirty
pages end up always being larger than the percentage, event when it's not
and this causes user space to be woken up more than it wants to be.

Add a new counter to keep track of lost pages, and include that in the
accounting of dirty pages so that it is actually accurate.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021123013.55fb6055@gandalf.local.home

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: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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The function ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages() was created to find out how many
pages are filled in the ring buffer. There's two running counters. One is
incremented whenever a new page is touched (pages_touched) and the other
is whenever a page is read (pages_read). The dirty count is the number
touched minus the number read. This is used to determine if a blocked task
should be woken up if the percentage of the ring buffer it is waiting for
is hit.

The problem is that it does not take into account dropped pages (when the
new writes overwrite pages that were not read). And then the dirty pages
will always be greater than the percentage.

This makes the "buffer_percent" file inaccurate, as the number of dirty
pages end up always being larger than the percentage, event when it's not
and this causes user space to be woken up more than it wants to be.

Add a new counter to keep track of lost pages, and include that in the
accounting of dirty pages so that it is actually accurate.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021123013.55fb6055@gandalf.local.home

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: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ring_buffer: Do not deactivate non-existant pages</title>
<updated>2022-11-25T16:42:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniil Tatianin</name>
<email>d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-14T14:31:29+00:00</published>
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commit 56f4ca0a79a9f1af98f26c54b9b89ba1f9bcc6bd upstream.

rb_head_page_deactivate() expects cpu_buffer to contain a valid list of
-&gt;pages, so verify that the list is actually present before calling it.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE
static analysis tool.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114143129.3534443-1-d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 77ae365eca895 ("ring-buffer: make lockless")
Signed-off-by: Daniil Tatianin &lt;d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru&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 56f4ca0a79a9f1af98f26c54b9b89ba1f9bcc6bd upstream.

rb_head_page_deactivate() expects cpu_buffer to contain a valid list of
-&gt;pages, so verify that the list is actually present before calling it.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE
static analysis tool.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114143129.3534443-1-d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 77ae365eca895 ("ring-buffer: make lockless")
Signed-off-by: Daniil Tatianin &lt;d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru&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: Fix race between reset page and reading page</title>
<updated>2022-10-26T11:22:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<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: Check pending waiters when doing wake ups as well</title>
<updated>2022-10-26T11:22:19+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>
<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Have the shortest_full queue be the shortest not longest</title>
<updated>2022-10-26T11:22:19+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;
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