This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ring-buffer: Fix polling on trace_pipe
to the 3.14-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-polling-on-trace_pipe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 97b8ee845393701edc06e27ccec2876ff9596019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Lau <kafai@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 23:06:42 -0700
Subject: ring-buffer: Fix polling on trace_pipe
From: Martin Lau <kafai@xxxxxx>
commit 97b8ee845393701edc06e27ccec2876ff9596019 upstream.
ring_buffer_poll_wait() should always put the poll_table to its wait_queue
even there is immediate data available. Otherwise, the following epoll and
read sequence will eventually hang forever:
1. Put some data to make the trace_pipe ring_buffer read ready first
2. epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, trace_pipe_fd, ee)
3. epoll_wait()
4. read(trace_pipe_fd) till EAGAIN
5. Add some more data to the trace_pipe ring_buffer
6. epoll_wait() -> this epoll_wait() will block forever
~ During the epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD,...) call in step 2,
ring_buffer_poll_wait() returns immediately without adding poll_table,
which has poll_table->_qproc pointing to ep_poll_callback(), to its
wait_queue.
~ During the epoll_wait() call in step 3 and step 6,
ring_buffer_poll_wait() cannot add ep_poll_callback() to its wait_queue
because the poll_table->_qproc is NULL and it is how epoll works.
~ When there is new data available in step 6, ring_buffer does not know
it has to call ep_poll_callback() because it is not in its wait queue.
Hence, block forever.
Other poll implementation seems to call poll_wait() unconditionally as the very
first thing to do. For example, tcp_poll() in tcp.c.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140610060637.GA14045@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 2a2cc8f7c4d0 "ftrace: allow the event pipe to be polled"
Reviewed-by: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin Lau <kafai@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -616,10 +616,6 @@ int ring_buffer_poll_wait(struct ring_bu
struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
struct rb_irq_work *work;
- if ((cpu == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS && !ring_buffer_empty(buffer)) ||
- (cpu != RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS && !ring_buffer_empty_cpu(buffer, cpu)))
- return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;
-
if (cpu == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS)
work = &buffer->irq_work;
else {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kafai@xxxxxx are
queue-3.14/ring-buffer-fix-polling-on-trace_pipe.patch
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