From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit 59643d1535eb220668692a5359de22545af579f6 ] If the size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is greater than MAX_LONG - BUF_PAGE_SIZE then the DIV_ROUND_UP() will return zero. Here's the details: # echo 18014398509481980 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb tracing_entries_write() processes this and converts kb to bytes. 18014398509481980 << 10 = 18446744073709547520 and this is passed to ring_buffer_resize() as unsigned long size. size = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE); Where DIV_ROUND_UP(a, b) is (a + b - 1)/b BUF_PAGE_SIZE is 4080 and here 18446744073709547520 + 4080 - 1 = 18446744073709551599 where 18446744073709551599 is still smaller than 2^64 2^64 - 18446744073709551599 = 17 But now 18446744073709551599 / 4080 = 4521260802379792 and size = size * 4080 = 18446744073709551360 This is checked to make sure its still greater than 2 * 4080, which it is. Then we convert to the number of buffer pages needed. nr_page = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE) but this time size is 18446744073709551360 and 2^64 - (18446744073709551360 + 4080 - 1) = -3823 Thus it overflows and the resulting number is less than 4080, which makes 3823 / 4080 = 0 an nr_pages is set to this. As we already checked against the minimum that nr_pages may be, this causes the logic to fail as well, and we crash the kernel. There's no reason to have the two DIV_ROUND_UP() (that's just result of historical code changes), clean up the code and fix this bug. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.5+ Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 07d70d1..fb147c7 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1690,14 +1690,13 @@ int ring_buffer_resize(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long size, !cpumask_test_cpu(cpu_id, buffer->cpumask)) return size; - size = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE); - size *= BUF_PAGE_SIZE; + nr_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE); /* we need a minimum of two pages */ - if (size < BUF_PAGE_SIZE * 2) - size = BUF_PAGE_SIZE * 2; + if (nr_pages < 2) + nr_pages = 2; - nr_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE); + size = nr_pages * BUF_PAGE_SIZE; /* * Don't succeed if resizing is disabled, as a reader might be -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html