From: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx> When reading data from trace_pipe, tracing_wait_pipe() performs a check to see if tracing has been turned off after some data was read. Currently, this check always looks at global trace state, but it should be checking the trace instance where trace_pipe is located at. Because of this bug, cat instances/i1/trace_pipe in the following script will immediately exit instead of waiting for data: cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing echo 0 > tracing_on mkdir -p instances/i1 echo 1 > instances/i1/tracing_on echo 1 > instances/i1/events/sched/sched_process_exec/enable cat instances/i1/trace_pipe Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170917102348.1615-1-tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 10246fa35d4f ("tracing: give easy way to clear trace buffer") Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index d3ca35f38803..752e5daf0896 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -5680,7 +5680,7 @@ static int tracing_wait_pipe(struct file *filp) * * iter->pos will be 0 if we haven't read anything. */ - if (!tracing_is_on() && iter->pos) + if (!tracer_tracing_is_on(iter->tr) && iter->pos) break; mutex_unlock(&iter->mutex); -- 2.13.2