This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ring-buffer: Fix 32-bit rb_time_read() race with rb_time_cmpxchg()
to the 6.1-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-fix-32-bit-rb_time_read-race-with-rb_tim.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 861ba5891da49cc7768295f98827c32ed0dcd73a
Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Dec 12 14:30:49 2023 -0500
ring-buffer: Fix 32-bit rb_time_read() race with rb_time_cmpxchg()
[ Upstream commit dec890089bf79a4954b61482715ee2d084364856 ]
The following race can cause rb_time_read() to observe a corrupted time
stamp:
rb_time_cmpxchg()
[...]
if (!rb_time_read_cmpxchg(&t->msb, msb, msb2))
return false;
if (!rb_time_read_cmpxchg(&t->top, top, top2))
return false;
<interrupted before updating bottom>
__rb_time_read()
[...]
do {
c = local_read(&t->cnt);
top = local_read(&t->top);
bottom = local_read(&t->bottom);
msb = local_read(&t->msb);
} while (c != local_read(&t->cnt));
*cnt = rb_time_cnt(top);
/* If top and msb counts don't match, this interrupted a write */
if (*cnt != rb_time_cnt(msb))
return false;
^ this check fails to catch that "bottom" is still not updated.
So the old "bottom" value is returned, which is wrong.
Fix this by checking that all three of msb, top, and bottom 2-bit cnt
values match.
The reason to favor checking all three fields over requiring a specific
update order for both rb_time_set() and rb_time_cmpxchg() is because
checking all three fields is more robust to handle partial failures of
rb_time_cmpxchg() when interrupted by nested rb_time_set().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231211201324.652870-1-mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231212193049.680122-1-mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: f458a1453424e ("ring-buffer: Test last update in 32bit version of __rb_time_read()")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 06d52525407b8..71cad4f1323c6 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -646,8 +646,8 @@ static inline bool __rb_time_read(rb_time_t *t, u64 *ret, unsigned long *cnt)
*cnt = rb_time_cnt(top);
- /* If top and msb counts don't match, this interrupted a write */
- if (*cnt != rb_time_cnt(msb))
+ /* If top, msb or bottom counts don't match, this interrupted a write */
+ if (*cnt != rb_time_cnt(msb) || *cnt != rb_time_cnt(bottom))
return false;
/* The shift to msb will lose its cnt bits */
