This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ring-buffer: Handle race between rb_move_tail and rb_check_pages to the 5.15-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: ring-buffer-handle-race-between-rb_move_tail-and-rb_check_pages.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8843e06f67b14f71c044bf6267b2387784c7e198 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:36:43 +0530 Subject: ring-buffer: Handle race between rb_move_tail and rb_check_pages From: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8843e06f67b14f71c044bf6267b2387784c7e198 upstream. It seems a data race between ring_buffer writing and integrity check. That is, RB_FLAG of head_page is been updating, while at same time RB_FLAG was cleared when doing integrity check rb_check_pages(): rb_check_pages() rb_handle_head_page(): -------- -------- rb_head_page_deactivate() rb_head_page_set_normal() rb_head_page_activate() We do intergrity test of the list to check if the list is corrupted and it is still worth doing it. So, let's refactor rb_check_pages() such that we no longer clear and set flag during the list sanity checking. [1] and [2] are the test to reproduce and the crash report respectively. 1: ``` read_trace.sh while true; do # the "trace" file is closed after read head -1 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace > /dev/null done ``` ``` repro.sh sysctl -w kernel.panic_on_warn=1 # function tracer will writing enough data into ring_buffer echo function > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer ./read_trace.sh & ./read_trace.sh & ./read_trace.sh & ./read_trace.sh & ./read_trace.sh & ./read_trace.sh & ./read_trace.sh & ./read_trace.sh & ``` 2: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 62 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2653 rb_move_tail+0x450/0x470 Modules linked in: CPU: 9 PID: 62 Comm: ksoftirqd/9 Tainted: G W 6.2.0-rc6+ Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:rb_move_tail+0x450/0x470 Code: ff ff 4c 89 c8 f0 4d 0f b1 02 48 89 c2 48 83 e2 fc 49 39 d0 75 24 83 e0 03 83 f8 02 0f 84 e1 fb ff ff 48 8b 57 10 f0 ff 42 08 <0f> 0b 83 f8 02 0f 84 ce fb ff ff e9 db RSP: 0018:ffffb5564089bd00 EFLAGS: 00000203 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9db385a2bf81 RCX: ffffb5564089bd18 RDX: ffff9db281110100 RSI: 0000000000000fe4 RDI: ffff9db380145400 RBP: ffff9db385a2bf80 R08: ffff9db385a2bfc0 R09: ffff9db385a2bfc2 R10: ffff9db385a6c000 R11: ffff9db385a2bf80 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00000000000003e8 R14: ffff9db281110100 R15: ffffffffbb006108 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9db3bdcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00005602323024c8 CR3: 0000000022e0c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Call Trace: <TASK> ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x136/0x360 ? __do_softirq+0x287/0x2df ? __pfx_rcu_softirq_qs+0x10/0x10 trace_function+0x21/0x110 ? __pfx_rcu_softirq_qs+0x10/0x10 ? __do_softirq+0x287/0x2df function_trace_call+0xf6/0x120 0xffffffffc038f097 ? rcu_softirq_qs+0x5/0x140 rcu_softirq_qs+0x5/0x140 __do_softirq+0x287/0x2df run_ksoftirqd+0x2a/0x30 smpboot_thread_fn+0x188/0x220 ? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10 kthread+0xe7/0x110 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50 </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ crash report and test reproducer credit goes to Zheng Yejian] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/1676376403-16462-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 1039221cc278 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator") Reported-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 42 ++++++++++-------------------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1545,19 +1545,6 @@ static int rb_check_bpage(struct ring_bu } /** - * rb_check_list - make sure a pointer to a list has the last bits zero - */ -static int rb_check_list(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, - struct list_head *list) -{ - if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, rb_list_head(list->prev) != list->prev)) - return 1; - if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, rb_list_head(list->next) != list->next)) - return 1; - return 0; -} - -/** * rb_check_pages - integrity check of buffer pages * @cpu_buffer: CPU buffer with pages to test * @@ -1566,36 +1553,27 @@ static int rb_check_list(struct ring_buf */ static int rb_check_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer) { - struct list_head *head = cpu_buffer->pages; - struct buffer_page *bpage, *tmp; + struct list_head *head = rb_list_head(cpu_buffer->pages); + struct list_head *tmp; - /* Reset the head page if it exists */ - if (cpu_buffer->head_page) - rb_set_head_page(cpu_buffer); - - rb_head_page_deactivate(cpu_buffer); - - if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, head->next->prev != head)) - return -1; - if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, head->prev->next != head)) + if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, + rb_list_head(rb_list_head(head->next)->prev) != head)) return -1; - if (rb_check_list(cpu_buffer, head)) + if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, + rb_list_head(rb_list_head(head->prev)->next) != head)) return -1; - list_for_each_entry_safe(bpage, tmp, head, list) { + for (tmp = rb_list_head(head->next); tmp != head; tmp = rb_list_head(tmp->next)) { if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, - bpage->list.next->prev != &bpage->list)) + rb_list_head(rb_list_head(tmp->next)->prev) != tmp)) return -1; + if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, - bpage->list.prev->next != &bpage->list)) - return -1; - if (rb_check_list(cpu_buffer, &bpage->list)) + rb_list_head(rb_list_head(tmp->prev)->next) != tmp)) return -1; } - rb_head_page_activate(cpu_buffer); - return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/locking-rwsem-disable-preemption-in-all-down_read-an.patch queue-5.15/locking-rwsem-prevent-non-first-waiter-from-spinning-in-down_write-slowpath.patch queue-5.15/ring-buffer-handle-race-between-rb_move_tail-and-rb_check_pages.patch