linux-stable.git/kernel/trace/trace.c, branch v4.14.129 Linux kernel stable tree fs: prevent page refcount overflow in pipe_buf_get 2019-05-04T07:15:18+00:00 Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org 2019-04-05T21:02:10+00:00 c88a0aa7ace7eb10dca42be59f21e2cbd263575e commit 15fab63e1e57be9fdb5eec1bbc5916e9825e9acb upstream. Change pipe_buf_get() to return a bool indicating whether it succeeded in raising the refcount of the page (if the thing in the pipe is a page). This removes another mechanism for overflowing the page refcount. All callers converted to handle a failure. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 15fab63e1e57be9fdb5eec1bbc5916e9825e9acb upstream.

Change pipe_buf_get() to return a bool indicating whether it succeeded
in raising the refcount of the page (if the thing in the pipe is a page).
This removes another mechanism for overflowing the page refcount.  All
callers converted to handle a failure.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: Fix buffer_ref pipe ops 2019-05-02T07:40:28+00:00 Jann Horn jannh@google.com 2019-04-04T21:59:25+00:00 aec0d4aad4613ea834b65070aba62ced4ec4e540 commit b987222654f84f7b4ca95b3a55eca784cb30235b upstream. This fixes multiple issues in buffer_pipe_buf_ops: - The ->steal() handler must not return zero unless the pipe buffer has the only reference to the page. But generic_pipe_buf_steal() assumes that every reference to the pipe is tracked by the page's refcount, which isn't true for these buffers - buffer_pipe_buf_get(), which duplicates a buffer, doesn't touch the page's refcount. Fix it by using generic_pipe_buf_nosteal(), which refuses every attempted theft. It should be easy to actually support ->steal, but the only current users of pipe_buf_steal() are the virtio console and FUSE, and they also only use it as an optimization. So it's probably not worth the effort. - The ->get() and ->release() handlers can be invoked concurrently on pipe buffers backed by the same struct buffer_ref. Make them safe against concurrency by using refcount_t. - The pointers stored in ->private were only zeroed out when the last reference to the buffer_ref was dropped. As far as I know, this shouldn't be necessary anyway, but if we do it, let's always do it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190404215925.253531-1-jannh@google.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 73a757e63114d ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit b987222654f84f7b4ca95b3a55eca784cb30235b upstream.

This fixes multiple issues in buffer_pipe_buf_ops:

 - The ->steal() handler must not return zero unless the pipe buffer has
   the only reference to the page. But generic_pipe_buf_steal() assumes
   that every reference to the pipe is tracked by the page's refcount,
   which isn't true for these buffers - buffer_pipe_buf_get(), which
   duplicates a buffer, doesn't touch the page's refcount.
   Fix it by using generic_pipe_buf_nosteal(), which refuses every
   attempted theft. It should be easy to actually support ->steal, but the
   only current users of pipe_buf_steal() are the virtio console and FUSE,
   and they also only use it as an optimization. So it's probably not worth
   the effort.
 - The ->get() and ->release() handlers can be invoked concurrently on pipe
   buffers backed by the same struct buffer_ref. Make them safe against
   concurrency by using refcount_t.
 - The pointers stored in ->private were only zeroed out when the last
   reference to the buffer_ref was dropped. As far as I know, this
   shouldn't be necessary anyway, but if we do it, let's always do it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190404215925.253531-1-jannh@google.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 73a757e63114d ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: Fix a memory leak by early error exit in trace_pid_write() 2019-05-02T07:40:28+00:00 Wenwen Wang wang6495@umn.edu 2019-04-20T02:22:59+00:00 5cc7ae880836c5943a773148e7a936728c750430 commit 91862cc7867bba4ee5c8fcf0ca2f1d30427b6129 upstream. In trace_pid_write(), the buffer for trace parser is allocated through kmalloc() in trace_parser_get_init(). Later on, after the buffer is used, it is then freed through kfree() in trace_parser_put(). However, it is possible that trace_pid_write() is terminated due to unexpected errors, e.g., ENOMEM. In that case, the allocated buffer will not be freed, which is a memory leak bug. To fix this issue, free the allocated buffer when an error is encountered. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1555726979-15633-1-git-send-email-wang6495@umn.edu Fixes: f4d34a87e9c10 ("tracing: Use pid bitmap instead of a pid array for set_event_pid") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 91862cc7867bba4ee5c8fcf0ca2f1d30427b6129 upstream.

In trace_pid_write(), the buffer for trace parser is allocated through
kmalloc() in trace_parser_get_init(). Later on, after the buffer is used,
it is then freed through kfree() in trace_parser_put(). However, it is
possible that trace_pid_write() is terminated due to unexpected errors,
e.g., ENOMEM. In that case, the allocated buffer will not be freed, which
is a memory leak bug.

To fix this issue, free the allocated buffer when an error is encountered.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1555726979-15633-1-git-send-email-wang6495@umn.edu

Fixes: f4d34a87e9c10 ("tracing: Use pid bitmap instead of a pid array for set_event_pid")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: kdb: Fix ftdump to not sleep 2019-04-05T20:31:25+00:00 Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org 2019-03-08T19:32:04+00:00 2d412eb3b823f846c31a68a4aced3a5527a27f8a [ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ] As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context". kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in atomic context. A very simple solution for this is to add allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without triggering the allocation error. This patch does that. Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer ahead of time or create our own iterator. I'm hoping that this alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already allocated). NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the duplication. This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer). The downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer. Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump | grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it will throw away the whole trace on the first grep. A future patch to dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to implement. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ]

As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a
BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context".

kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in
atomic context.  A very simple solution for this is to add allocation
flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without
triggering the allocation error.  This patch does that.

Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested
that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer
ahead of time or create our own iterator.  I'm hoping that this
alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare()
can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the
core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own
iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already
allocated).

NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it
reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the
duplication.  This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr
z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer).  The
downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer.
Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump
| grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it
will throw away the whole trace on the first grep.  A future patch to
dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to
implement.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org

Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
tracing: Do not free iter->trace in fail path of tracing_open_pipe() 2019-03-23T13:35:19+00:00 zhangyi (F) yi.zhang@huawei.com 2019-02-13T12:29:06+00:00 219397048238608f9fafe8d160063fa72ecdaeff commit e7f0c424d0806b05d6f47be9f202b037eb701707 upstream. Commit d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files") use the current tracer instead of the copy in tracing_open_pipe(), but it forget to remove the freeing sentence in the error path. There's an error path that can call kfree(iter->trace) after the iter->trace was assigned to tr->current_trace, which would be bad to free. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550060946-45984-1-git-send-email-yi.zhang@huawei.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files") Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit e7f0c424d0806b05d6f47be9f202b037eb701707 upstream.

Commit d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in
pipe files") use the current tracer instead of the copy in
tracing_open_pipe(), but it forget to remove the freeing sentence in
the error path.

There's an error path that can call kfree(iter->trace) after the iter->trace
was assigned to tr->current_trace, which would be bad to free.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550060946-45984-1-git-send-email-yi.zhang@huawei.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files")
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: Fix number of entries in trace header 2019-02-27T09:08:01+00:00 Quentin Perret quentin.perret@arm.com 2019-02-14T15:29:50+00:00 ee6e4d34b4d9b5da00ac502e68e4d2ac04c5c1f3 commit 9e7382153f80ba45a0bbcd540fb77d4b15f6e966 upstream. The following commit 441dae8f2f29 ("tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output") removed the call to print_event_info() from print_func_help_header_irq() which results in the ftrace header not reporting the number of entries written in the buffer. As this wasn't the original intent of the patch, re-introduce the call to print_event_info() to restore the orginal behaviour. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190214152950.4179-1-quentin.perret@arm.com Acked-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 441dae8f2f29 ("tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output") Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 9e7382153f80ba45a0bbcd540fb77d4b15f6e966 upstream.

The following commit

  441dae8f2f29 ("tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output")

removed the call to print_event_info() from print_func_help_header_irq()
which results in the ftrace header not reporting the number of entries
written in the buffer. As this wasn't the original intent of the patch,
re-introduce the call to print_event_info() to restore the orginal
behaviour.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190214152950.4179-1-quentin.perret@arm.com

Acked-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 441dae8f2f29 ("tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: Do not call start/stop() functions when tracing_on does not change 2018-09-09T17:55:57+00:00 Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org 2018-08-01T19:40:57+00:00 4c9016757e3bf695a6716946d7fd5f0f486a475a commit f143641bfef9a4a60c57af30de26c63057e7e695 upstream. Currently, when one echo's in 1 into tracing_on, the current tracer's "start()" function is executed, even if tracing_on was already one. This can lead to strange side effects. One being that if the hwlat tracer is enabled, and someone does "echo 1 > tracing_on" into tracing_on, the hwlat tracer's start() function is called again which will recreate another kernel thread, and make it unable to remove the old one. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533120354-22923-1-git-send-email-erica.bugden@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 2df8f8a6a897e ("tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file") Reported-by: Erica Bugden <erica.bugden@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit f143641bfef9a4a60c57af30de26c63057e7e695 upstream.

Currently, when one echo's in 1 into tracing_on, the current tracer's
"start()" function is executed, even if tracing_on was already one. This can
lead to strange side effects. One being that if the hwlat tracer is enabled,
and someone does "echo 1 > tracing_on" into tracing_on, the hwlat tracer's
start() function is called again which will recreate another kernel thread,
and make it unable to remove the old one.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533120354-22923-1-git-send-email-erica.bugden@linutronix.de

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2df8f8a6a897e ("tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file")
Reported-by: Erica Bugden <erica.bugden@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
printk/nmi: Prevent deadlock when accessing the main log buffer in NMI 2018-09-05T07:26:35+00:00 Petr Mladek pmladek@suse.com 2018-06-27T14:20:28+00:00 cd71265a8cd6a41c54dcfd594b0e653740cf1282 commit 03fc7f9c99c1e7ae2925d459e8487f1a6f199f79 upstream. The commit 719f6a7040f1bdaf96 ("printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI when logbuf_lock is available") brought back the possible deadlocks in printk() and NMI. The check of logbuf_lock is done only in printk_nmi_enter() to prevent mixed output. But another CPU might take the lock later, enter NMI, and: + Both NMIs might be serialized by yet another lock, for example, the one in nmi_cpu_backtrace(). + The other CPU might get stopped in NMI, see smp_send_stop() in panic(). The only safe solution is to use trylock when storing the message into the main log-buffer. It might cause reordering when some lines go to the main lock buffer directly and others are delayed via the per-CPU buffer. It means that it is not useful in general. This patch replaces the problematic NMI deferred context with NMI direct context. It can be used to mark a code that might produce many messages in NMI and the risk of losing them is more critical than problems with eventual reordering. The context is then used when dumping trace buffers on oops. It was the primary motivation for the original fix. Also the reordering is even smaller issue there because some traces have their own time stamps. Finally, nmi_cpu_backtrace() need not longer be serialized because it will always us the per-CPU buffers again. Fixes: 719f6a7040f1bdaf96 ("printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI when logbuf_lock is available") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627142028.11259-1-pmladek@suse.com To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 03fc7f9c99c1e7ae2925d459e8487f1a6f199f79 upstream.

The commit 719f6a7040f1bdaf96 ("printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI
when logbuf_lock is available") brought back the possible deadlocks
in printk() and NMI.

The check of logbuf_lock is done only in printk_nmi_enter() to prevent
mixed output. But another CPU might take the lock later, enter NMI, and:

      + Both NMIs might be serialized by yet another lock, for example,
	the one in nmi_cpu_backtrace().

      + The other CPU might get stopped in NMI, see smp_send_stop()
	in panic().

The only safe solution is to use trylock when storing the message
into the main log-buffer. It might cause reordering when some lines
go to the main lock buffer directly and others are delayed via
the per-CPU buffer. It means that it is not useful in general.

This patch replaces the problematic NMI deferred context with NMI
direct context. It can be used to mark a code that might produce
many messages in NMI and the risk of losing them is more critical
than problems with eventual reordering.

The context is then used when dumping trace buffers on oops. It was
the primary motivation for the original fix. Also the reordering is
even smaller issue there because some traces have their own time stamps.

Finally, nmi_cpu_backtrace() need not longer be serialized because
it will always us the per-CPU buffers again.

Fixes: 719f6a7040f1bdaf96 ("printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI when logbuf_lock is available")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627142028.11259-1-pmladek@suse.com
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tracing: Use __printf markup to silence compiler 2018-08-24T11:09:12+00:00 Mathieu Malaterre malat@debian.org 2018-03-08T20:58:43+00:00 017fe62bb794a2d6f339b4d76ae58ac2d0349228 [ Upstream commit 26b68dd2f48fe7699a89f0cfbb9f4a650dc1c837 ] Silence warnings (triggered at W=1) by adding relevant __printf attributes. CC kernel/trace/trace.o kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘__trace_array_vprintk’: kernel/trace/trace.c:2979:2: warning: function might be possible candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format] len = vscnprintf(tbuffer, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args); ^~~ AR kernel/trace/built-in.o Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180308205843.27447-1-malat@debian.org Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
[ Upstream commit 26b68dd2f48fe7699a89f0cfbb9f4a650dc1c837 ]

Silence warnings (triggered at W=1) by adding relevant __printf attributes.

  CC      kernel/trace/trace.o
kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘__trace_array_vprintk’:
kernel/trace/trace.c:2979:2: warning: function might be possible candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
  len = vscnprintf(tbuffer, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args);
  ^~~
  AR      kernel/trace/built-in.o

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180308205843.27447-1-malat@debian.org

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer 2018-08-09T10:16:38+00:00 Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org 2018-07-13T16:28:15+00:00 60baabc37bc18323e6346d28fd7b70729e345703 commit 73c8d8945505acdcbae137c2e00a1232e0be709f upstream. Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching to the trace buffer snapshot. Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer (max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> [ Updated commit log and comment in the code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 73c8d8945505acdcbae137c2e00a1232e0be709f upstream.

Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching
to the trace buffer snapshot.

Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer
(max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined
by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting
can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below:

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0

We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on
setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know
that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and
the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[ Updated commit log and comment in the code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>