In test_ringbuffer()'s out_free cleanup loop, the check
`!rb_threads[cpu]` only catches NULL entries and misses entries that
hold an ERR_PTR.

rb_threads[] is static, so unassigned slots are NULL. But when
kthread_run_on_cpu() fails for a cpu, it stores ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) (or
-EINTR) in rb_threads[cpu] before the creation loop jumps to out_free.
That entry is non-NULL, so the old `!ptr` check does not break, and the
cleanup proceeds to call kthread_stop() on the ERR_PTR. kthread_stop()
then dereferences the bogus pointer, crashing the kernel during the
late_initcall self-test.

crash logs:
  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001c
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
  CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 7.2.0-rc6-dirty #7 PREEMPT(lazy)
  RIP: 0010:kthread_stop+0x2e/0x220
  RBX: fffffffffffffff4
  CR2: 000000000000001c
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   test_ringbuffer+0x1ec/0x650
   do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x2c0
   kernel_init_freeable+0x21d/0x420
   kernel_init+0x15/0x1c0
   ret_from_fork+0x21b/0x320
   </TASK>
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 64ed3a049e3e ("ring-buffer: make use of the helper function kthread_run_on_cpu()")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260807154145.2846521-2-sh_def@163.com
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

In rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(), bpage->order was omitted, leaving it as 0.
This is an issue for a ring-buffer with subbufs bigger than PAGE_SIZE if
when freed: free_buffer_page() relies on this value. Align the value
with the actual allocation size (buffer::subbuf_order).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f9b94daa542a ("ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806211306.3704194-4-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Because ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() frees buffer pages, we can't
allow it when resizing is disabled. A non-consuming reader is at risk of
use-after-free (rb_advance_iter()).

Return -EBUSY on resize_disabled, matching ring_buffer_resize()
behaviour.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f9b94daa542a ("ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806211306.3704194-3-vdonnefort@google.com
Reported-by: syzbot+e0cc44465d6bae735679@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Dynamically resizing a persistent ring buffer is not possible. Disable
the feature.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: be68d63a139b ("ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_alloc_range()")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806211306.3704194-2-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

The ring_buffer_swap_cpu() function currently checks the per-CPU
committing counter to determine if a buffer is actively being written to
before performing the swap. However, there exists a race window where
this check can be bypassed:

    ring_buffer_lock_reserve
        cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];       // cpu_buffer_a
        rb_reserve_next_event
            rb_start_commit // inc committing
            if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(cpu_buffer->buffer) != buffer)) {...}
            __rb_reserve_next
                rb_move_tail
                    rb_end_commit(cpu_buffer);   // dec committing => 0
                    /* interrupt hits here, successfully swaps! */
                    local_inc(&cpu_buffer->committing);

    ring_buffer_unlock_commit
        cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];      // cpu_buffer_b
        rb_commit
            rb_end_commit
            RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !local_read(&cpu_buffer->committing))
                                                // triggers warning

The committing counter can temporarily drop to 0 during a single write
operation (within rb_move_tail), creating a window where swap can
succeed even though the write is still in progress. This leads to
inconsistent buffer state and triggers the RB_WARN_ON in rb_commit().

Replace the committing counter check with current_context checks, which
are set at the entry of ring_buffer_lock_reserve() and remain valid
throughout the entire write operation, providing a reliable indicator of
buffer busy state during swap.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4239c38fe0b3 ("ring-buffer: Process commits whenever moving to a new page.")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803005640.2445666-2-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

In rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(), cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids is allocated using
kcalloc() when buffer->remote is non-NULL. If a subsequent page allocation
fails (e.g., ring_buffer_desc_page() returns NULL or rb_allocate_pages()
fails), execution jumps to fail_free_reader.

While __free(kfree) automatically frees the outer cpu_buffer structure
at scope exit, kfree(cpu_buffer) does not recursively free nested heap
pointers such as cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids, resulting in a memory leak.

Fix this by explicitly freeing cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids in the
fail_free_reader error unwinding path when cpu_buffer->remote is set.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178550740672.380917.6067449683620196150.stgit@devnote2
Fixes: 2e67fabd8b77 ("ring-buffer: Introduce ring-buffer remotes")
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.6-flash
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

A page swapped in by __rb_get_reader_page_from_remote() retains its
stale read offset, causing subsequent reads to skip events or read
past valid data. Fix it.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729133609.4022734-1-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: fbd1743ecba1 ("ring-buffer: Add non-consuming read for ring-buffer remotes")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Keir Fraser <keirf@google.com>
Tested-by: Keir Fraser <keirf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

No user currently relies on sparse CPU masks, but the descriptor logic already
supports them via linear fallback. Remove the arbitrary limitation.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709160017.1729517-4-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: 2e67fabd8b77 ("ring-buffer: Introduce ring-buffer remotes")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Commit 8928e4a3be34 ("ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events
in trace_pipe file") split the "commit" variable in
ring_buffer_read_page() into "commit" (raw) and "size" (masked page
size), but the inner copy loop's terminator was changed to compare rpos
against "event_size" instead of "size".

rpos is the cumulative read offset within the page; event_size is the
length of the single event just copied. The loop thus breaks after the
first event, so only one event is copied per call. This regresses the
per-event memcpy path (partial reads, the active commit page, and
mapped/remote buffers) used by splice/trace_pipe_raw and mmap consumers
into a one-event-at-a-time read.

Compare rpos against the page size as the original code did.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616175538.111628-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Fixes: 8928e4a3be34 ("ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace_pipe file")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

When RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is true, rb_calculate_event_length()
reserves the space of event->array[0] for placing the data length and
rb_update_event() stores the data length in event->array[0]
accordingly. As a result the whole event length will add extra 4 bytes
for sizeof(event.array[0]) unconditionally.

But ring_buffer_event_length() only subtracts the
sizeof(event->array[0]) for events larger than RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA +
sizeof(event->array[0]). As a result, small events on architectures
with RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT=true report a data length that is 4
bytes larger than expected.

To fix it, add the RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT as a condition to subtract
the size of that length field whenever RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is
true.

This issue is observed in a riscv64 kernel with
CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS set to y, when we run ftrace selftest
trace_marker_raw.tc, we get the weird log: for cases where the id is
1..100, the number of data field is 8*N, but once id exceeds 100, the
number of data field becomes 8*N+4:
 # 1 buf: 58 00 00 00 80 5e d1 63 (number of data field is 8*1)
 ...
 # a buf: 58 ...                  (number of data field is 8*2)
 ...
 # 64 buf: 58 ...                 (number of data field is 8*13)
 # 65 buf: 58 ...                 (number of data field is 8*13+4)

After applying this change, the number of data field keeps being 8*N+4
consistently.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260607072431.125633-2-hui.wang@canonical.com
Fixes: 2271048d1b3b ("ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte align")
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>