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| author | Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> | 2008-12-23 11:32:25 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-23 18:45:26 +0100 |
| commit | 98db8df777438e16ad0f44a0fba05ebbdb73db8d (patch) | |
| tree | f2cde3dbe3000f4bafd0c42df43f736b7e5a648b /kernel | |
| parent | a8ccf1d6f60e3e6ae63122e02378cd4d40dd4aac (diff) | |
| download | linux-98db8df777438e16ad0f44a0fba05ebbdb73db8d.tar.bz2 | |
ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
Impact: eliminate false WARN_ON message
If an interrupt goes off after the setting of the local variable
tail_page and before incrementing the write index of that page,
the interrupt could push the commit forward to the next page.
Later a check is made to see if interrupts pushed the buffer around
the entire ring buffer by comparing the next page to the last commited
page. This can produce a false positive if the interrupt had pushed
the commit page forward as stated above.
Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.
Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index d03f4f44a823..76f34c0ef29c 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -962,12 +962,15 @@ static struct ring_buffer_event * __rb_reserve_next(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, unsigned type, unsigned long length, u64 *ts) { - struct buffer_page *tail_page, *head_page, *reader_page; + struct buffer_page *tail_page, *head_page, *reader_page, *commit_page; unsigned long tail, write; struct ring_buffer *buffer = cpu_buffer->buffer; struct ring_buffer_event *event; unsigned long flags; + commit_page = cpu_buffer->commit_page; + /* we just need to protect against interrupts */ + barrier(); tail_page = cpu_buffer->tail_page; write = local_add_return(length, &tail_page->write); tail = write - length; @@ -993,7 +996,7 @@ __rb_reserve_next(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, * it all the way around the buffer, bail, and warn * about it. */ - if (unlikely(next_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page)) { + if (unlikely(next_page == commit_page)) { WARN_ON_ONCE(1); goto out_unlock; } |