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<title>ring-buffer: Update "shortest_full" in polling</title>
<updated>2023-10-10T19:46:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2023-09-29T22:01:13+00:00</published>
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commit 1e0cb399c7653462d9dadf8ab9425337c355d358 upstream.

It was discovered that the ring buffer polling was incorrectly stating
that read would not block, but that's because polling did not take into
account that reads will block if the "buffer-percent" was set. Instead,
the ring buffer polling would say reads would not block if there was any
data in the ring buffer. This was incorrect behavior from a user space
point of view. This was fixed by commit 42fb0a1e84ff by having the polling
code check if the ring buffer had more data than what the user specified
"buffer percent" had.

The problem now is that the polling code did not register itself to the
writer that it wanted to wait for a specific "full" value of the ring
buffer. The result was that the writer would wake the polling waiter
whenever there was a new event. The polling waiter would then wake up, see
that there's not enough data in the ring buffer to notify user space and
then go back to sleep. The next event would wake it up again.

Before the polling fix was added, the code would wake up around 100 times
for a hackbench 30 benchmark. After the "fix", due to the constant waking
of the writer, it would wake up over 11,0000 times! It would never leave
the kernel, so the user space behavior was still "correct", but this
definitely is not the desired effect.

To fix this, have the polling code add what it's waiting for to the
"shortest_full" variable, to tell the writer not to wake it up if the
buffer is not as full as it expects to be.

Note, after this fix, it appears that the waiter is now woken up around 2x
the times it was before (~200). This is a tremendous improvement from the
11,000 times, but I will need to spend some time to see why polling is
more aggressive in its wakeups than the read blocking code.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230929180113.01c2cae3@rorschach.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 42fb0a1e84ff ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling block on watermark")
Reported-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia.lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Tested-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia.lawall@inria.fr&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 1e0cb399c7653462d9dadf8ab9425337c355d358 upstream.

It was discovered that the ring buffer polling was incorrectly stating
that read would not block, but that's because polling did not take into
account that reads will block if the "buffer-percent" was set. Instead,
the ring buffer polling would say reads would not block if there was any
data in the ring buffer. This was incorrect behavior from a user space
point of view. This was fixed by commit 42fb0a1e84ff by having the polling
code check if the ring buffer had more data than what the user specified
"buffer percent" had.

The problem now is that the polling code did not register itself to the
writer that it wanted to wait for a specific "full" value of the ring
buffer. The result was that the writer would wake the polling waiter
whenever there was a new event. The polling waiter would then wake up, see
that there's not enough data in the ring buffer to notify user space and
then go back to sleep. The next event would wake it up again.

Before the polling fix was added, the code would wake up around 100 times
for a hackbench 30 benchmark. After the "fix", due to the constant waking
of the writer, it would wake up over 11,0000 times! It would never leave
the kernel, so the user space behavior was still "correct", but this
definitely is not the desired effect.

To fix this, have the polling code add what it's waiting for to the
"shortest_full" variable, to tell the writer not to wake it up if the
buffer is not as full as it expects to be.

Note, after this fix, it appears that the waiter is now woken up around 2x
the times it was before (~200). This is a tremendous improvement from the
11,000 times, but I will need to spend some time to see why polling is
more aggressive in its wakeups than the read blocking code.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230929180113.01c2cae3@rorschach.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 42fb0a1e84ff ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling block on watermark")
Reported-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia.lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Tested-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia.lawall@inria.fr&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: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize()</title>
<updated>2023-10-10T19:46:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zheng Yejian</name>
<email>zhengyejian1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-06T08:19:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f6bd2c92488c30ef53b5bd80c52f0a7eee9d545a ]

When user resize all trace ring buffer through file 'buffer_size_kb',
then in ring_buffer_resize(), kernel allocates buffer pages for each
cpu in a loop.

If the kernel preemption model is PREEMPT_NONE and there are many cpus
and there are many buffer pages to be allocated, it may not give up cpu
for a long time and finally cause a softlockup.

To avoid it, call cond_resched() after each cpu buffer allocation.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230906081930.3939106-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Cc: &lt;mhiramat@kernel.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: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f6bd2c92488c30ef53b5bd80c52f0a7eee9d545a ]

When user resize all trace ring buffer through file 'buffer_size_kb',
then in ring_buffer_resize(), kernel allocates buffer pages for each
cpu in a loop.

If the kernel preemption model is PREEMPT_NONE and there are many cpus
and there are many buffer pages to be allocated, it may not give up cpu
for a long time and finally cause a softlockup.

To avoid it, call cond_resched() after each cpu buffer allocation.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230906081930.3939106-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Cc: &lt;mhiramat@kernel.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: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Avoid deadlock when using queue and stack maps from NMI</title>
<updated>2023-10-10T19:46:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toke Høiland-Jørgensen</name>
<email>toke@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-11T13:28:14+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a34a9f1a19afe9c60ca0ea61dfeee63a1c2baac8 ]

Sysbot discovered that the queue and stack maps can deadlock if they are
being used from a BPF program that can be called from NMI context (such as
one that is attached to a perf HW counter event). To fix this, add an
in_nmi() check and use raw_spin_trylock() in NMI context, erroring out if
grabbing the lock fails.

Fixes: f1a2e44a3aec ("bpf: add queue and stack maps")
Reported-by: Hsin-Wei Hung &lt;hsinweih@uci.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Hsin-Wei Hung &lt;hsinweih@uci.edu&gt;
Co-developed-by: Hsin-Wei Hung &lt;hsinweih@uci.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230911132815.717240-1-toke@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a34a9f1a19afe9c60ca0ea61dfeee63a1c2baac8 ]

Sysbot discovered that the queue and stack maps can deadlock if they are
being used from a BPF program that can be called from NMI context (such as
one that is attached to a perf HW counter event). To fix this, add an
in_nmi() check and use raw_spin_trylock() in NMI context, erroring out if
grabbing the lock fails.

Fixes: f1a2e44a3aec ("bpf: add queue and stack maps")
Reported-by: Hsin-Wei Hung &lt;hsinweih@uci.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Hsin-Wei Hung &lt;hsinweih@uci.edu&gt;
Co-developed-by: Hsin-Wei Hung &lt;hsinweih@uci.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230911132815.717240-1-toke@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Increase trace array ref count on enable and filter files</title>
<updated>2023-10-10T19:46:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-07T02:47:12+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f5ca233e2e66dc1c249bf07eefa37e34a6c9346a ]

When the trace event enable and filter files are opened, increment the
trace array ref counter, otherwise they can be accessed when the trace
array is being deleted. The ref counter keeps the trace array from being
deleted while those files are opened.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907024803.456187066@goodmis.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1cb3aee2-19af-c472-e265-05176fe9bd84@huawei.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8530dec63e7b4 ("tracing: Add tracing_check_open_get_tr()")
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.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 f5ca233e2e66dc1c249bf07eefa37e34a6c9346a ]

When the trace event enable and filter files are opened, increment the
trace array ref counter, otherwise they can be accessed when the trace
array is being deleted. The ref counter keeps the trace array from being
deleted while those files are opened.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907024803.456187066@goodmis.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1cb3aee2-19af-c472-e265-05176fe9bd84@huawei.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8530dec63e7b4 ("tracing: Add tracing_check_open_get_tr()")
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.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>
<title>tracing: Have option files inc the trace array ref count</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T09:00:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-07T02:47:15+00:00</published>
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commit 7e2cfbd2d3c86afcd5c26b5c4b1dd251f63c5838 upstream.

The option files update the options for a given trace array. For an
instance, if the file is opened and the instance is deleted, reading or
writing to the file will cause a use after free.

Up the ref count of the trace_array when an option file is opened.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907024804.086679464@goodmis.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1cb3aee2-19af-c472-e265-05176fe9bd84@huawei.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 8530dec63e7b4 ("tracing: Add tracing_check_open_get_tr()")
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&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 7e2cfbd2d3c86afcd5c26b5c4b1dd251f63c5838 upstream.

The option files update the options for a given trace array. For an
instance, if the file is opened and the instance is deleted, reading or
writing to the file will cause a use after free.

Up the ref count of the trace_array when an option file is opened.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907024804.086679464@goodmis.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1cb3aee2-19af-c472-e265-05176fe9bd84@huawei.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 8530dec63e7b4 ("tracing: Add tracing_check_open_get_tr()")
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&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>tracing: Have current_trace inc the trace array ref count</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T09:00:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-07T02:47:14+00:00</published>
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commit 9b37febc578b2e1ad76a105aab11d00af5ec3d27 upstream.

The current_trace updates the trace array tracer. For an instance, if the
file is opened and the instance is deleted, reading or writing to the file
will cause a use after free.

Up the ref count of the trace array when current_trace is opened.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907024803.877687227@goodmis.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1cb3aee2-19af-c472-e265-05176fe9bd84@huawei.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 8530dec63e7b4 ("tracing: Add tracing_check_open_get_tr()")
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&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 9b37febc578b2e1ad76a105aab11d00af5ec3d27 upstream.

The current_trace updates the trace array tracer. For an instance, if the
file is opened and the instance is deleted, reading or writing to the file
will cause a use after free.

Up the ref count of the trace array when current_trace is opened.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907024803.877687227@goodmis.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1cb3aee2-19af-c472-e265-05176fe9bd84@huawei.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 8530dec63e7b4 ("tracing: Add tracing_check_open_get_tr()")
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&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>kernel/fork: beware of __put_task_struct() calling context</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T09:00:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wander Lairson Costa</name>
<email>wander@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-14T12:23:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d243b34459cea30cfe5f3a9b2feb44e7daff9938 ]

Under PREEMPT_RT, __put_task_struct() indirectly acquires sleeping
locks. Therefore, it can't be called from an non-preemptible context.

One practical example is splat inside inactive_task_timer(), which is
called in a interrupt context:

  CPU: 1 PID: 2848 Comm: life Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W ---------
   Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL388p Gen8, BIOS P70 07/15/2012
   Call Trace:
   dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
   mark_lock_irq.cold+0x33/0xba
   mark_lock+0x1e7/0x400
   mark_usage+0x11d/0x140
   __lock_acquire+0x30d/0x930
   lock_acquire.part.0+0x9c/0x210
   rt_spin_lock+0x27/0xe0
   refill_obj_stock+0x3d/0x3a0
   kmem_cache_free+0x357/0x560
   inactive_task_timer+0x1ad/0x340
   __run_hrtimer+0x8a/0x1a0
   __hrtimer_run_queues+0x91/0x130
   hrtimer_interrupt+0x10f/0x220
   __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7b/0xd0
   sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4f/0xd0
   asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
   RIP: 0033:0x7fff196bf6f5

Instead of calling __put_task_struct() directly, we defer it using
call_rcu(). A more natural approach would use a workqueue, but since
in PREEMPT_RT, we can't allocate dynamic memory from atomic context,
the code would become more complex because we would need to put the
work_struct instance in the task_struct and initialize it when we
allocate a new task_struct.

The issue is reproducible with stress-ng:

  while true; do
      stress-ng --sched deadline --sched-period 1000000000 \
	      --sched-runtime 800000000 --sched-deadline \
	      1000000000 --mmapfork 23 -t 20
  done

Reported-by: Hu Chunyu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa &lt;wander@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614122323.37957-2-wander@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d243b34459cea30cfe5f3a9b2feb44e7daff9938 ]

Under PREEMPT_RT, __put_task_struct() indirectly acquires sleeping
locks. Therefore, it can't be called from an non-preemptible context.

One practical example is splat inside inactive_task_timer(), which is
called in a interrupt context:

  CPU: 1 PID: 2848 Comm: life Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W ---------
   Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL388p Gen8, BIOS P70 07/15/2012
   Call Trace:
   dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
   mark_lock_irq.cold+0x33/0xba
   mark_lock+0x1e7/0x400
   mark_usage+0x11d/0x140
   __lock_acquire+0x30d/0x930
   lock_acquire.part.0+0x9c/0x210
   rt_spin_lock+0x27/0xe0
   refill_obj_stock+0x3d/0x3a0
   kmem_cache_free+0x357/0x560
   inactive_task_timer+0x1ad/0x340
   __run_hrtimer+0x8a/0x1a0
   __hrtimer_run_queues+0x91/0x130
   hrtimer_interrupt+0x10f/0x220
   __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7b/0xd0
   sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4f/0xd0
   asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
   RIP: 0033:0x7fff196bf6f5

Instead of calling __put_task_struct() directly, we defer it using
call_rcu(). A more natural approach would use a workqueue, but since
in PREEMPT_RT, we can't allocate dynamic memory from atomic context,
the code would become more complex because we would need to put the
work_struct instance in the task_struct and initialize it when we
allocate a new task_struct.

The issue is reproducible with stress-ng:

  while true; do
      stress-ng --sched deadline --sched-period 1000000000 \
	      --sched-runtime 800000000 --sched-deadline \
	      1000000000 --mmapfork 23 -t 20
  done

Reported-by: Hu Chunyu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa &lt;wander@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614122323.37957-2-wander@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix race issue between cpu buffer write and swap</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T08:59:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zheng Yejian</name>
<email>zhengyejian1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T13:27:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3163f635b20e9e1fb4659e74f47918c9dddfe64e ]

Warning happened in rb_end_commit() at code:
	if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !local_read(&amp;cpu_buffer-&gt;committing)))

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3142
	rb_commit+0x402/0x4a0
  Call Trace:
   ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x42/0x250
   trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x3b/0x250
   trace_event_buffer_commit+0xe5/0x440
   trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x11c/0x150
   trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch+0x23c/0x2c0
   __traceiter_sched_switch+0x59/0x80
   __schedule+0x72b/0x1580
   schedule+0x92/0x120
   worker_thread+0xa0/0x6f0

It is because the race between writing event into cpu buffer and swapping
cpu buffer through file per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot:

  Write on CPU 0             Swap buffer by per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot on CPU 1
  --------                   --------
                             tracing_snapshot_write()
                               [...]

  ring_buffer_lock_reserve()
    cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu]; // 1. Suppose find 'cpu_buffer_a';
    [...]
    rb_reserve_next_event()
      [...]

                               ring_buffer_swap_cpu()
                                 if (local_read(&amp;cpu_buffer_a-&gt;committing))
                                     goto out_dec;
                                 if (local_read(&amp;cpu_buffer_b-&gt;committing))
                                     goto out_dec;
                                 buffer_a-&gt;buffers[cpu] = cpu_buffer_b;
                                 buffer_b-&gt;buffers[cpu] = cpu_buffer_a;
                                 // 2. cpu_buffer has swapped here.

      rb_start_commit(cpu_buffer);
      if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(cpu_buffer-&gt;buffer)
          != buffer)) { // 3. This check passed due to 'cpu_buffer-&gt;buffer'
        [...]           //    has not changed here.
        return NULL;
      }
                                 cpu_buffer_b-&gt;buffer = buffer_a;
                                 cpu_buffer_a-&gt;buffer = buffer_b;
                                 [...]

      // 4. Reserve event from 'cpu_buffer_a'.

  ring_buffer_unlock_commit()
    [...]
    cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu]; // 5. Now find 'cpu_buffer_b' !!!
    rb_commit(cpu_buffer)
      rb_end_commit()  // 6. WARN for the wrong 'committing' state !!!

Based on above analysis, we can easily reproduce by following testcase:
  ``` bash
  #!/bin/bash

  dmesg -n 7
  sysctl -w kernel.panic_on_warn=1
  TR=/sys/kernel/tracing
  echo 7 &gt; ${TR}/buffer_size_kb
  echo "sched:sched_switch" &gt; ${TR}/set_event
  while [ true ]; do
          echo 1 &gt; ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
  done &amp;
  while [ true ]; do
          echo 1 &gt; ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
  done &amp;
  while [ true ]; do
          echo 1 &gt; ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
  done &amp;
  ```

To fix it, IIUC, we can use smp_call_function_single() to do the swap on
the target cpu where the buffer is located, so that above race would be
avoided.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230831132739.4070878-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Cc: &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: f1affcaaa861 ("tracing: Add snapshot in the per_cpu trace directories")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.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 3163f635b20e9e1fb4659e74f47918c9dddfe64e ]

Warning happened in rb_end_commit() at code:
	if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !local_read(&amp;cpu_buffer-&gt;committing)))

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3142
	rb_commit+0x402/0x4a0
  Call Trace:
   ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x42/0x250
   trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x3b/0x250
   trace_event_buffer_commit+0xe5/0x440
   trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x11c/0x150
   trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch+0x23c/0x2c0
   __traceiter_sched_switch+0x59/0x80
   __schedule+0x72b/0x1580
   schedule+0x92/0x120
   worker_thread+0xa0/0x6f0

It is because the race between writing event into cpu buffer and swapping
cpu buffer through file per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot:

  Write on CPU 0             Swap buffer by per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot on CPU 1
  --------                   --------
                             tracing_snapshot_write()
                               [...]

  ring_buffer_lock_reserve()
    cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu]; // 1. Suppose find 'cpu_buffer_a';
    [...]
    rb_reserve_next_event()
      [...]

                               ring_buffer_swap_cpu()
                                 if (local_read(&amp;cpu_buffer_a-&gt;committing))
                                     goto out_dec;
                                 if (local_read(&amp;cpu_buffer_b-&gt;committing))
                                     goto out_dec;
                                 buffer_a-&gt;buffers[cpu] = cpu_buffer_b;
                                 buffer_b-&gt;buffers[cpu] = cpu_buffer_a;
                                 // 2. cpu_buffer has swapped here.

      rb_start_commit(cpu_buffer);
      if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(cpu_buffer-&gt;buffer)
          != buffer)) { // 3. This check passed due to 'cpu_buffer-&gt;buffer'
        [...]           //    has not changed here.
        return NULL;
      }
                                 cpu_buffer_b-&gt;buffer = buffer_a;
                                 cpu_buffer_a-&gt;buffer = buffer_b;
                                 [...]

      // 4. Reserve event from 'cpu_buffer_a'.

  ring_buffer_unlock_commit()
    [...]
    cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu]; // 5. Now find 'cpu_buffer_b' !!!
    rb_commit(cpu_buffer)
      rb_end_commit()  // 6. WARN for the wrong 'committing' state !!!

Based on above analysis, we can easily reproduce by following testcase:
  ``` bash
  #!/bin/bash

  dmesg -n 7
  sysctl -w kernel.panic_on_warn=1
  TR=/sys/kernel/tracing
  echo 7 &gt; ${TR}/buffer_size_kb
  echo "sched:sched_switch" &gt; ${TR}/set_event
  while [ true ]; do
          echo 1 &gt; ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
  done &amp;
  while [ true ]; do
          echo 1 &gt; ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
  done &amp;
  while [ true ]; do
          echo 1 &gt; ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
  done &amp;
  ```

To fix it, IIUC, we can use smp_call_function_single() to do the swap on
the target cpu where the buffer is located, so that above race would be
avoided.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230831132739.4070878-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Cc: &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: f1affcaaa861 ("tracing: Add snapshot in the per_cpu trace directories")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>audit: fix possible soft lockup in __audit_inode_child()</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T08:59:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gaosheng Cui</name>
<email>cuigaosheng1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-08T12:14:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b59bc6e37237e37eadf50cd5de369e913f524463 ]

Tracefs or debugfs maybe cause hundreds to thousands of PATH records,
too many PATH records maybe cause soft lockup.

For example:
  1. CONFIG_KASAN=y &amp;&amp; CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n
  2. auditctl -a exit,always -S open -k key
  3. sysctl -w kernel.watchdog_thresh=5
  4. mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test

There may be a soft lockup as follows:
  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#45 stuck for 7s! [mkdir:15498]
  Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x30c
   show_stack+0x20/0x30
   dump_stack+0x11c/0x174
   panic+0x27c/0x494
   watchdog_timer_fn+0x2bc/0x390
   __run_hrtimer+0x148/0x4fc
   __hrtimer_run_queues+0x154/0x210
   hrtimer_interrupt+0x2c4/0x760
   arch_timer_handler_phys+0x48/0x60
   handle_percpu_devid_irq+0xe0/0x340
   __handle_domain_irq+0xbc/0x130
   gic_handle_irq+0x78/0x460
   el1_irq+0xb8/0x140
   __audit_inode_child+0x240/0x7bc
   tracefs_create_file+0x1b8/0x2a0
   trace_create_file+0x18/0x50
   event_create_dir+0x204/0x30c
   __trace_add_new_event+0xac/0x100
   event_trace_add_tracer+0xa0/0x130
   trace_array_create_dir+0x60/0x140
   trace_array_create+0x1e0/0x370
   instance_mkdir+0x90/0xd0
   tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x68/0xa0
   vfs_mkdir+0x21c/0x34c
   do_mkdirat+0x1b4/0x1d4
   __arm64_sys_mkdirat+0x4c/0x60
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xa8/0x240
   do_el0_svc+0x8c/0xc0
   el0_svc+0x20/0x30
   el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
   el0_sync+0x160/0x180

Therefore, we add cond_resched() to __audit_inode_child() to fix it.

Fixes: 5195d8e217a7 ("audit: dynamically allocate audit_names when not enough space is in the names array")
Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui &lt;cuigaosheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b59bc6e37237e37eadf50cd5de369e913f524463 ]

Tracefs or debugfs maybe cause hundreds to thousands of PATH records,
too many PATH records maybe cause soft lockup.

For example:
  1. CONFIG_KASAN=y &amp;&amp; CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n
  2. auditctl -a exit,always -S open -k key
  3. sysctl -w kernel.watchdog_thresh=5
  4. mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test

There may be a soft lockup as follows:
  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#45 stuck for 7s! [mkdir:15498]
  Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x30c
   show_stack+0x20/0x30
   dump_stack+0x11c/0x174
   panic+0x27c/0x494
   watchdog_timer_fn+0x2bc/0x390
   __run_hrtimer+0x148/0x4fc
   __hrtimer_run_queues+0x154/0x210
   hrtimer_interrupt+0x2c4/0x760
   arch_timer_handler_phys+0x48/0x60
   handle_percpu_devid_irq+0xe0/0x340
   __handle_domain_irq+0xbc/0x130
   gic_handle_irq+0x78/0x460
   el1_irq+0xb8/0x140
   __audit_inode_child+0x240/0x7bc
   tracefs_create_file+0x1b8/0x2a0
   trace_create_file+0x18/0x50
   event_create_dir+0x204/0x30c
   __trace_add_new_event+0xac/0x100
   event_trace_add_tracer+0xa0/0x130
   trace_array_create_dir+0x60/0x140
   trace_array_create+0x1e0/0x370
   instance_mkdir+0x90/0xd0
   tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x68/0xa0
   vfs_mkdir+0x21c/0x34c
   do_mkdirat+0x1b4/0x1d4
   __arm64_sys_mkdirat+0x4c/0x60
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xa8/0x240
   do_el0_svc+0x8c/0xc0
   el0_svc+0x20/0x30
   el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
   el0_sync+0x160/0x180

Therefore, we add cond_resched() to __audit_inode_child() to fix it.

Fixes: 5195d8e217a7 ("audit: dynamically allocate audit_names when not enough space is in the names array")
Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui &lt;cuigaosheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Clear the probe_addr for uprobe</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T08:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yafang Shao</name>
<email>laoar.shao@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-09T02:56:25+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5125e757e62f6c1d5478db4c2b61a744060ddf3f ]

To avoid returning uninitialized or random values when querying the file
descriptor (fd) and accessing probe_addr, it is necessary to clear the
variable prior to its use.

Fixes: 41bdc4b40ed6 ("bpf: introduce bpf subcommand BPF_TASK_FD_QUERY")
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230709025630.3735-6-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5125e757e62f6c1d5478db4c2b61a744060ddf3f ]

To avoid returning uninitialized or random values when querying the file
descriptor (fd) and accessing probe_addr, it is necessary to clear the
variable prior to its use.

Fixes: 41bdc4b40ed6 ("bpf: introduce bpf subcommand BPF_TASK_FD_QUERY")
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230709025630.3735-6-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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