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<title>ring-buffer: Fix polling on trace_pipe</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T17:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Lau</name>
<email>kafai@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-10T06:06:42+00:00</published>
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commit 97b8ee845393701edc06e27ccec2876ff9596019 upstream.

ring_buffer_poll_wait() should always put the poll_table to its wait_queue
even there is immediate data available.  Otherwise, the following epoll and
read sequence will eventually hang forever:

1. Put some data to make the trace_pipe ring_buffer read ready first
2. epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, trace_pipe_fd, ee)
3. epoll_wait()
4. read(trace_pipe_fd) till EAGAIN
5. Add some more data to the trace_pipe ring_buffer
6. epoll_wait() -&gt; this epoll_wait() will block forever

~ During the epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD,...) call in step 2,
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() returns immediately without adding poll_table,
  which has poll_table-&gt;_qproc pointing to ep_poll_callback(), to its
  wait_queue.
~ During the epoll_wait() call in step 3 and step 6,
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() cannot add ep_poll_callback() to its wait_queue
  because the poll_table-&gt;_qproc is NULL and it is how epoll works.
~ When there is new data available in step 6, ring_buffer does not know
  it has to call ep_poll_callback() because it is not in its wait queue.
  Hence, block forever.

Other poll implementation seems to call poll_wait() unconditionally as the very
first thing to do.  For example, tcp_poll() in tcp.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140610060637.GA14045@devbig242.prn2.facebook.com

Fixes: 2a2cc8f7c4d0 "ftrace: allow the event pipe to be polled"
Reviewed-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: the poll implementation looks rather different
 but does have a conditional return before and after the poll_wait() call;
 delete the return before it.]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 97b8ee845393701edc06e27ccec2876ff9596019 upstream.

ring_buffer_poll_wait() should always put the poll_table to its wait_queue
even there is immediate data available.  Otherwise, the following epoll and
read sequence will eventually hang forever:

1. Put some data to make the trace_pipe ring_buffer read ready first
2. epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, trace_pipe_fd, ee)
3. epoll_wait()
4. read(trace_pipe_fd) till EAGAIN
5. Add some more data to the trace_pipe ring_buffer
6. epoll_wait() -&gt; this epoll_wait() will block forever

~ During the epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD,...) call in step 2,
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() returns immediately without adding poll_table,
  which has poll_table-&gt;_qproc pointing to ep_poll_callback(), to its
  wait_queue.
~ During the epoll_wait() call in step 3 and step 6,
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() cannot add ep_poll_callback() to its wait_queue
  because the poll_table-&gt;_qproc is NULL and it is how epoll works.
~ When there is new data available in step 6, ring_buffer does not know
  it has to call ep_poll_callback() because it is not in its wait queue.
  Hence, block forever.

Other poll implementation seems to call poll_wait() unconditionally as the very
first thing to do.  For example, tcp_poll() in tcp.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140610060637.GA14045@devbig242.prn2.facebook.com

Fixes: 2a2cc8f7c4d0 "ftrace: allow the event pipe to be polled"
Reviewed-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: the poll implementation looks rather different
 but does have a conditional return before and after the poll_wait() call;
 delete the return before it.]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix potential out-of-bounds in trace_get_user()</title>
<updated>2013-11-28T14:02:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-10T02:23:23+00:00</published>
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commit 057db8488b53d5e4faa0cedb2f39d4ae75dfbdbb upstream.

Andrey reported the following report:

ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address ffff8800359c99f3
ffff8800359c99f3 is located 0 bytes to the right of 243-byte region [ffff8800359c9900, ffff8800359c99f3)
Accessed by thread T13003:
  #0 ffffffff810dd2da (asan_report_error+0x32a/0x440)
  #1 ffffffff810dc6b0 (asan_check_region+0x30/0x40)
  #2 ffffffff810dd4d3 (__tsan_write1+0x13/0x20)
  #3 ffffffff811cd19e (ftrace_regex_release+0x1be/0x260)
  #4 ffffffff812a1065 (__fput+0x155/0x360)
  #5 ffffffff812a12de (____fput+0x1e/0x30)
  #6 ffffffff8111708d (task_work_run+0x10d/0x140)
  #7 ffffffff810ea043 (do_exit+0x433/0x11f0)
  #8 ffffffff810eaee4 (do_group_exit+0x84/0x130)
  #9 ffffffff810eafb1 (SyS_exit_group+0x21/0x30)
  #10 ffffffff81928782 (system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b)

Allocated by thread T5167:
  #0 ffffffff810dc778 (asan_slab_alloc+0x48/0xc0)
  #1 ffffffff8128337c (__kmalloc+0xbc/0x500)
  #2 ffffffff811d9d54 (trace_parser_get_init+0x34/0x90)
  #3 ffffffff811cd7b3 (ftrace_regex_open+0x83/0x2e0)
  #4 ffffffff811cda7d (ftrace_filter_open+0x2d/0x40)
  #5 ffffffff8129b4ff (do_dentry_open+0x32f/0x430)
  #6 ffffffff8129b668 (finish_open+0x68/0xa0)
  #7 ffffffff812b66ac (do_last+0xb8c/0x1710)
  #8 ffffffff812b7350 (path_openat+0x120/0xb50)
  #9 ffffffff812b8884 (do_filp_open+0x54/0xb0)
  #10 ffffffff8129d36c (do_sys_open+0x1ac/0x2c0)
  #11 ffffffff8129d4b7 (SyS_open+0x37/0x50)
  #12 ffffffff81928782 (system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b)

Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
  ffff8800359c9700: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd
  ffff8800359c9780: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9800: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9880: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
=&gt;ffff8800359c9980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00[03]fb
  ffff8800359c9a00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9a80: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9b00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ffff8800359c9b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ffff8800359c9c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
  Addressable:           00
  Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
  Heap redzone:          fa
  Heap kmalloc redzone:  fb
  Freed heap region:     fd
  Shadow gap:            fe

The out-of-bounds access happens on 'parser-&gt;buffer[parser-&gt;idx] = 0;'

Although the crash happened in ftrace_regex_open() the real bug
occurred in trace_get_user() where there's an incrementation to
parser-&gt;idx without a check against the size. The way it is triggered
is if userspace sends in 128 characters (EVENT_BUF_SIZE + 1), the loop
that reads the last character stores it and then breaks out because
there is no more characters. Then the last character is read to determine
what to do next, and the index is incremented without checking size.

Then the caller of trace_get_user() usually nulls out the last character
with a zero, but since the index is equal to the size, it writes a nul
character after the allocated space, which can corrupt memory.

Luckily, only root user has write access to this file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131009222323.04fd1a0d@gandalf.local.home

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 057db8488b53d5e4faa0cedb2f39d4ae75dfbdbb upstream.

Andrey reported the following report:

ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address ffff8800359c99f3
ffff8800359c99f3 is located 0 bytes to the right of 243-byte region [ffff8800359c9900, ffff8800359c99f3)
Accessed by thread T13003:
  #0 ffffffff810dd2da (asan_report_error+0x32a/0x440)
  #1 ffffffff810dc6b0 (asan_check_region+0x30/0x40)
  #2 ffffffff810dd4d3 (__tsan_write1+0x13/0x20)
  #3 ffffffff811cd19e (ftrace_regex_release+0x1be/0x260)
  #4 ffffffff812a1065 (__fput+0x155/0x360)
  #5 ffffffff812a12de (____fput+0x1e/0x30)
  #6 ffffffff8111708d (task_work_run+0x10d/0x140)
  #7 ffffffff810ea043 (do_exit+0x433/0x11f0)
  #8 ffffffff810eaee4 (do_group_exit+0x84/0x130)
  #9 ffffffff810eafb1 (SyS_exit_group+0x21/0x30)
  #10 ffffffff81928782 (system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b)

Allocated by thread T5167:
  #0 ffffffff810dc778 (asan_slab_alloc+0x48/0xc0)
  #1 ffffffff8128337c (__kmalloc+0xbc/0x500)
  #2 ffffffff811d9d54 (trace_parser_get_init+0x34/0x90)
  #3 ffffffff811cd7b3 (ftrace_regex_open+0x83/0x2e0)
  #4 ffffffff811cda7d (ftrace_filter_open+0x2d/0x40)
  #5 ffffffff8129b4ff (do_dentry_open+0x32f/0x430)
  #6 ffffffff8129b668 (finish_open+0x68/0xa0)
  #7 ffffffff812b66ac (do_last+0xb8c/0x1710)
  #8 ffffffff812b7350 (path_openat+0x120/0xb50)
  #9 ffffffff812b8884 (do_filp_open+0x54/0xb0)
  #10 ffffffff8129d36c (do_sys_open+0x1ac/0x2c0)
  #11 ffffffff8129d4b7 (SyS_open+0x37/0x50)
  #12 ffffffff81928782 (system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b)

Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
  ffff8800359c9700: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd
  ffff8800359c9780: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9800: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9880: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
=&gt;ffff8800359c9980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00[03]fb
  ffff8800359c9a00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9a80: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9b00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ffff8800359c9b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ffff8800359c9c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
  Addressable:           00
  Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
  Heap redzone:          fa
  Heap kmalloc redzone:  fb
  Freed heap region:     fd
  Shadow gap:            fe

The out-of-bounds access happens on 'parser-&gt;buffer[parser-&gt;idx] = 0;'

Although the crash happened in ftrace_regex_open() the real bug
occurred in trace_get_user() where there's an incrementation to
parser-&gt;idx without a check against the size. The way it is triggered
is if userspace sends in 128 characters (EVENT_BUF_SIZE + 1), the loop
that reads the last character stores it and then breaks out because
there is no more characters. Then the last character is read to determine
what to do next, and the index is incremented without checking size.

Then the caller of trace_get_user() usually nulls out the last character
with a zero, but since the index is equal to the size, it writes a nul
character after the allocated space, which can corrupt memory.

Luckily, only root user has write access to this file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131009222323.04fd1a0d@gandalf.local.home

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix fields of struct trace_iterator that are zeroed by mistake</title>
<updated>2013-09-10T00:57:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-02T17:16:43+00:00</published>
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commit ed5467da0e369e65b247b99eb6403cb79172bcda upstream.

tracing_read_pipe zeros all fields bellow "seq". The declaration contains
a comment about that, but it doesn't help.

The first field is "snapshot", it's true when current open file is
snapshot. Looks obvious, that it should not be zeroed.

The second field is "started". It was converted from cpumask_t to
cpumask_var_t (v2.6.28-4983-g4462344), in other words it was
converted from cpumask to pointer on cpumask.

Currently the reference on "started" memory is lost after the first read
from tracing_read_pipe and a proper object will never be freed.

The "started" is never dereferenced for trace_pipe, because trace_pipe
can't have the TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE options.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: there's no snapshot field]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit ed5467da0e369e65b247b99eb6403cb79172bcda upstream.

tracing_read_pipe zeros all fields bellow "seq". The declaration contains
a comment about that, but it doesn't help.

The first field is "snapshot", it's true when current open file is
snapshot. Looks obvious, that it should not be zeroed.

The second field is "started". It was converted from cpumask_t to
cpumask_var_t (v2.6.28-4983-g4462344), in other words it was
converted from cpumask to pointer on cpumask.

Currently the reference on "started" memory is lost after the first read
from tracing_read_pipe and a proper object will never be freed.

The "started" is never dereferenced for trace_pipe, because trace_pipe
can't have the TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE options.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: there's no snapshot field]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Use current_uid() for critical time tracing</title>
<updated>2013-08-02T20:14:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-31T01:10:37+00:00</published>
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commit f17a5194859a82afe4164e938b92035b86c55794 upstream.

The irqsoff tracer records the max time that interrupts are disabled.
There are hooks in the assembly code that calls back into the tracer when
interrupts are disabled or enabled.

When they are enabled, the tracer checks if the amount of time they
were disabled is larger than the previous recorded max interrupts off
time. If it is, it creates a snapshot of the currently running trace
to store where the last largest interrupts off time was held and how
it happened.

During testing, this RCU lockdep dump appeared:

[ 1257.829021] ===============================
[ 1257.829021] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[ 1257.829021] 3.10.0-rc1-test+ #171 Tainted: G        W
[ 1257.829021] -------------------------------
[ 1257.829021] /home/rostedt/work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h:780 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle!
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
[ 1257.829021] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[ 1257.829021] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
[ 1257.829021] 2 locks held by trace-cmd/4831:
[ 1257.829021]  #0:  (max_trace_lock){......}, at: [&lt;ffffffff810e2b77&gt;] stop_critical_timing+0x1a3/0x209
[ 1257.829021]  #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [&lt;ffffffff810dae5a&gt;] __update_max_tr+0x88/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] stack backtrace:
[ 1257.829021] CPU: 3 PID: 4831 Comm: trace-cmd Tainted: G        W    3.10.0-rc1-test+ #171
[ 1257.829021] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007
[ 1257.829021]  0000000000000001 ffff880065f49da8 ffffffff8153dd2b ffff880065f49dd8
[ 1257.829021]  ffffffff81092a00 ffff88006bd78680 ffff88007add7500 0000000000000003
[ 1257.829021]  ffff88006bd78680 ffff880065f49e18 ffffffff810daebf ffffffff810dae5a
[ 1257.829021] Call Trace:
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff8153dd2b&gt;] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff81092a00&gt;] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x109/0x112
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810daebf&gt;] __update_max_tr+0xed/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810dae5a&gt;] ? __update_max_tr+0x88/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff811002b9&gt;] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810dbf85&gt;] update_max_tr_single+0x11d/0x12d
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff811002b9&gt;] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810e2b15&gt;] stop_critical_timing+0x141/0x209
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff8109569a&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff811002b9&gt;] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810e3057&gt;] time_hardirqs_on+0x2a/0x2f
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff811002b9&gt;] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff8109550c&gt;] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x16/0x197
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff8109569a&gt;] trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff811002b9&gt;] user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810029b4&gt;] do_notify_resume+0x92/0x97
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff8154bdca&gt;] int_signal+0x12/0x17

What happened was entering into the user code, the interrupts were enabled
and a max interrupts off was recorded. The trace buffer was saved along with
various information about the task: comm, pid, uid, priority, etc.

The uid is recorded with task_uid(tsk). But this is a macro that uses rcu_read_lock()
to retrieve the data, and this happened to happen where RCU is blind (user_enter).

As only the preempt and irqs off tracers can have this happen, and they both
only have the tsk == current, if tsk == current, use current_uid() instead of
task_uid(), as current_uid() does not use RCU as only current can change its uid.

This fixes the RCU suspicious splat.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f17a5194859a82afe4164e938b92035b86c55794 upstream.

The irqsoff tracer records the max time that interrupts are disabled.
There are hooks in the assembly code that calls back into the tracer when
interrupts are disabled or enabled.

When they are enabled, the tracer checks if the amount of time they
were disabled is larger than the previous recorded max interrupts off
time. If it is, it creates a snapshot of the currently running trace
to store where the last largest interrupts off time was held and how
it happened.

During testing, this RCU lockdep dump appeared:

[ 1257.829021] ===============================
[ 1257.829021] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[ 1257.829021] 3.10.0-rc1-test+ #171 Tainted: G        W
[ 1257.829021] -------------------------------
[ 1257.829021] /home/rostedt/work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h:780 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle!
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
[ 1257.829021] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[ 1257.829021] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
[ 1257.829021] 2 locks held by trace-cmd/4831:
[ 1257.829021]  #0:  (max_trace_lock){......}, at: [&lt;ffffffff810e2b77&gt;] stop_critical_timing+0x1a3/0x209
[ 1257.829021]  #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [&lt;ffffffff810dae5a&gt;] __update_max_tr+0x88/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] stack backtrace:
[ 1257.829021] CPU: 3 PID: 4831 Comm: trace-cmd Tainted: G        W    3.10.0-rc1-test+ #171
[ 1257.829021] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007
[ 1257.829021]  0000000000000001 ffff880065f49da8 ffffffff8153dd2b ffff880065f49dd8
[ 1257.829021]  ffffffff81092a00 ffff88006bd78680 ffff88007add7500 0000000000000003
[ 1257.829021]  ffff88006bd78680 ffff880065f49e18 ffffffff810daebf ffffffff810dae5a
[ 1257.829021] Call Trace:
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff8153dd2b&gt;] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff81092a00&gt;] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x109/0x112
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810daebf&gt;] __update_max_tr+0xed/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810dae5a&gt;] ? __update_max_tr+0x88/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff811002b9&gt;] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810dbf85&gt;] update_max_tr_single+0x11d/0x12d
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff811002b9&gt;] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810e2b15&gt;] stop_critical_timing+0x141/0x209
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff8109569a&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff811002b9&gt;] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810e3057&gt;] time_hardirqs_on+0x2a/0x2f
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff811002b9&gt;] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff8109550c&gt;] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x16/0x197
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff8109569a&gt;] trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff811002b9&gt;] user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff810029b4&gt;] do_notify_resume+0x92/0x97
[ 1257.829021]  [&lt;ffffffff8154bdca&gt;] int_signal+0x12/0x17

What happened was entering into the user code, the interrupts were enabled
and a max interrupts off was recorded. The trace buffer was saved along with
various information about the task: comm, pid, uid, priority, etc.

The uid is recorded with task_uid(tsk). But this is a macro that uses rcu_read_lock()
to retrieve the data, and this happened to happen where RCU is blind (user_enter).

As only the preempt and irqs off tracers can have this happen, and they both
only have the tsk == current, if tsk == current, use current_uid() instead of
task_uid(), as current_uid() does not use RCU as only current can change its uid.

This fixes the RCU suspicious splat.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()</title>
<updated>2013-05-13T14:02:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-10T00:18:12+00:00</published>
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commit ed6f1c996bfe4b6e520cf7a74b51cd6988d84420 upstream.

Check return value and bail out if it's NULL.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365553093-10180-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit ed6f1c996bfe4b6e520cf7a74b51cd6988d84420 upstream.

Check return value and bail out if it's NULL.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365553093-10180-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()</title>
<updated>2013-05-13T14:02:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-15T17:10:35+00:00</published>
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commit 7fe70b579c9e3daba71635e31b6189394e7b79d3 upstream.

ftrace_dump() had a lot of issues. What ftrace_dump() does, is when
ftrace_dump_on_oops is set (via a kernel parameter or sysctl), it
will dump out the ftrace buffers to the console when either a oops,
panic, or a sysrq-z occurs.

This was written a long time ago when ftrace was fragile to recursion.
But it wasn't written well even for that.

There's a possible deadlock that can occur if a ftrace_dump() is happening
and an NMI triggers another dump. This is because it grabs a lock
before checking if the dump ran.

It also totally disables ftrace, and tracing for no good reasons.

As the ring_buffer now checks if it is read via a oops or NMI, where
there's a chance that the buffer gets corrupted, it will disable
itself. No need to have ftrace_dump() do the same.

ftrace_dump() is now cleaned up where it uses an atomic counter to
make sure only one dump happens at a time. A simple atomic_inc_return()
is enough that is needed for both other CPUs and NMIs. No need for
a spinlock, as if one CPU is running the dump, no other CPU needs
to do it too.

The tracing_on variable is turned off and not turned on. The original
code did this, but it wasn't pretty. By just disabling this variable
we get the result of not seeing traces that happen between crashes.

For sysrq-z, it doesn't get turned on, but the user can always write
a '1' to the tracing_on file. If they are using sysrq-z, then they should
know about tracing_on.

The new code is much easier to read and less error prone. No more
deadlock possibility when an NMI triggers here.

Reported-by: zhangwei(Jovi) &lt;jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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commit 7fe70b579c9e3daba71635e31b6189394e7b79d3 upstream.

ftrace_dump() had a lot of issues. What ftrace_dump() does, is when
ftrace_dump_on_oops is set (via a kernel parameter or sysctl), it
will dump out the ftrace buffers to the console when either a oops,
panic, or a sysrq-z occurs.

This was written a long time ago when ftrace was fragile to recursion.
But it wasn't written well even for that.

There's a possible deadlock that can occur if a ftrace_dump() is happening
and an NMI triggers another dump. This is because it grabs a lock
before checking if the dump ran.

It also totally disables ftrace, and tracing for no good reasons.

As the ring_buffer now checks if it is read via a oops or NMI, where
there's a chance that the buffer gets corrupted, it will disable
itself. No need to have ftrace_dump() do the same.

ftrace_dump() is now cleaned up where it uses an atomic counter to
make sure only one dump happens at a time. A simple atomic_inc_return()
is enough that is needed for both other CPUs and NMIs. No need for
a spinlock, as if one CPU is running the dump, no other CPU needs
to do it too.

The tracing_on variable is turned off and not turned on. The original
code did this, but it wasn't pretty. By just disabling this variable
we get the result of not seeing traces that happen between crashes.

For sysrq-z, it doesn't get turned on, but the user can always write
a '1' to the tracing_on file. If they are using sysrq-z, then they should
know about tracing_on.

The new code is much easier to read and less error prone. No more
deadlock possibility when an NMI triggers here.

Reported-by: zhangwei(Jovi) &lt;jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Prevent buffer overwrite disabled for latency tracers</title>
<updated>2013-03-27T02:41:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-14T19:03:53+00:00</published>
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commit 613f04a0f51e6e68ac6fe571ab79da3c0a5eb4da upstream.

The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.

Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop some changes that are not needed because trace_set_options() is not
   separate from tracing_trace_options_write()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 613f04a0f51e6e68ac6fe571ab79da3c0a5eb4da upstream.

The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.

Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop some changes that are not needed because trace_set_options() is not
   separate from tracing_trace_options_write()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Keep overwrite in sync between regular and snapshot buffers</title>
<updated>2013-03-27T02:41:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-14T18:20:54+00:00</published>
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commit 80902822658aab18330569587cdb69ac1dfdcea8 upstream.

Changing the overwrite mode for the ring buffer via the trace
option only sets the normal buffer. But the snapshot buffer could
swap with it, and then the snapshot would be in non overwrite mode
and the normal buffer would be in overwrite mode, even though the
option flag states otherwise.

Keep the two buffers overwrite modes in sync.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 80902822658aab18330569587cdb69ac1dfdcea8 upstream.

Changing the overwrite mode for the ring buffer via the trace
option only sets the normal buffer. But the snapshot buffer could
swap with it, and then the snapshot would be in non overwrite mode
and the normal buffer would be in overwrite mode, even though the
option flag states otherwise.

Keep the two buffers overwrite modes in sync.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Protect tracer flags with trace_types_lock</title>
<updated>2013-03-27T02:41:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-14T17:50:56+00:00</published>
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commit 69d34da2984c95b33ea21518227e1f9470f11d95 upstream.

Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from
synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the
tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to
be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted.

Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing
to also protect the flags being set.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: also move failure return in
 tracing_trace_options_write() after unlocking]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 69d34da2984c95b33ea21518227e1f9470f11d95 upstream.

Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from
synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the
tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to
be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted.

Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing
to also protect the flags being set.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: also move failure return in
 tracing_trace_options_write() after unlocking]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix race in snapshot swapping</title>
<updated>2013-03-27T02:41:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-12T15:32:32+00:00</published>
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commit 2721e72dd10f71a3ba90f59781becf02638aa0d9 upstream.

Although the swap is wrapped with a spin_lock, the assignment
of the temp buffer used to swap is not within that lock.
It needs to be moved into that lock, otherwise two swaps
happening on two different CPUs, can end up using the wrong
temp buffer to assign in the swap.

Luckily, all current callers of the swap function appear to have
their own locks. But in case something is added that allows two
different callers to call the swap, then there's a chance that
this race can trigger and corrupt the buffers.

New code is coming soon that will allow for this race to trigger.

I've Cc'd stable, so this bug will not show up if someone backports
one of the changes that can trigger this bug.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 2721e72dd10f71a3ba90f59781becf02638aa0d9 upstream.

Although the swap is wrapped with a spin_lock, the assignment
of the temp buffer used to swap is not within that lock.
It needs to be moved into that lock, otherwise two swaps
happening on two different CPUs, can end up using the wrong
temp buffer to assign in the swap.

Luckily, all current callers of the swap function appear to have
their own locks. But in case something is added that allows two
different callers to call the swap, then there's a chance that
this race can trigger and corrupt the buffers.

New code is coming soon that will allow for this race to trigger.

I've Cc'd stable, so this bug will not show up if someone backports
one of the changes that can trigger this bug.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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