This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tracing: Move pipe reference to trace array instead of current_tracer
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tracing-move-pipe-reference-to-trace-array-instead-of-current_tracer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7ef282e05132d56b6f6b71e3873f317664bea78b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 23:45:56 -0400
Subject: tracing: Move pipe reference to trace array instead of current_tracer
From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7ef282e05132d56b6f6b71e3873f317664bea78b upstream.
If a process has the trace_pipe open on a trace_array, the current tracer
for that trace array should not be changed. This was original enforced by a
global lock, but when instances were introduced, it was moved to the
current_trace. But this structure is shared by all instances, and a
trace_pipe is for a single instance. There's no reason that a process that
has trace_pipe open on one instance should prevent another instance from
changing its current tracer. Move the reference counter to the trace_array
instead.
This is marked as "Fixes" but is more of a clean up than a true fix.
Backport if you want, but its not critical.
Fixes: cf6ab6d9143b1 ("tracing: Add ref count to tracer for when they are being read by pipe")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[Resolved conflict in __remove_instance()]
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 12 ++++++------
kernel/trace/trace.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -5686,7 +5686,7 @@ static int tracing_set_tracer(struct tra
}
/* If trace pipe files are being read, we can't change the tracer */
- if (tr->current_trace->ref) {
+ if (tr->trace_ref) {
ret = -EBUSY;
goto out;
}
@@ -5902,7 +5902,7 @@ static int tracing_open_pipe(struct inod
nonseekable_open(inode, filp);
- tr->current_trace->ref++;
+ tr->trace_ref++;
out:
mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
return ret;
@@ -5921,7 +5921,7 @@ static int tracing_release_pipe(struct i
mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
- tr->current_trace->ref--;
+ tr->trace_ref--;
if (iter->trace->pipe_close)
iter->trace->pipe_close(iter);
@@ -7230,7 +7230,7 @@ static int tracing_buffers_open(struct i
filp->private_data = info;
- tr->current_trace->ref++;
+ tr->trace_ref++;
mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
@@ -7331,7 +7331,7 @@ static int tracing_buffers_release(struc
mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
- iter->tr->current_trace->ref--;
+ iter->tr->trace_ref--;
__trace_array_put(iter->tr);
@@ -8470,7 +8470,7 @@ static int __remove_instance(struct trac
{
int i;
- if (tr->ref || (tr->current_trace && tr->current_trace->ref))
+ if (tr->ref || (tr->current_trace && tr->trace_ref))
return -EBUSY;
list_del(&tr->list);
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ struct trace_array {
struct trace_event_file *trace_marker_file;
cpumask_var_t tracing_cpumask; /* only trace on set CPUs */
int ref;
+ int trace_ref;
#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
struct ftrace_ops *ops;
struct trace_pid_list __rcu *function_pids;
@@ -498,7 +499,6 @@ struct tracer {
struct tracer *next;
struct tracer_flags *flags;
int enabled;
- int ref;
bool print_max;
bool allow_instances;
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.4/tracing-use-trace_sched_process_free-instead-of-exit-for-pid-tracing.patch
queue-5.4/tracing-hwlat-honor-the-tracing_cpumask.patch
queue-5.4/tracing-move-pipe-reference-to-trace-array-instead-of-current_tracer.patch
queue-5.4/kprobes-fix-null-pointer-dereference-at-kprobe_ftrace_handler.patch
queue-5.4/ftrace-setup-correct-ftrace_fl_regs-flags-for-module.patch
