[PATCH 6.12 200/422] ring-buffer: Do not allow events in NMI with generic atomic64 cmpxchg()

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6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit cd2375a3567fd3d93aa6c68e0027a5756213bda0 upstream.

Some architectures can not safely do atomic64 operations in NMI context.
Since the ring buffer relies on atomic64 operations to do its time
keeping, if an event is requested in NMI context, reject it for these
architectures.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250120235721.407068250@xxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: c84897c0ff592 ("ring-buffer: Remove 32bit timestamp logic")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/86fb4f86-a0e4-45a2-a2df-3154acc4f086@xxxxxxxxxxx/
Reported-by: Ludwig Rydberg <ludwig.rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -4398,8 +4398,13 @@ rb_reserve_next_event(struct trace_buffe
 	int nr_loops = 0;
 	int add_ts_default;
 
-	/* ring buffer does cmpxchg, make sure it is safe in NMI context */
-	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG) &&
+	/*
+	 * ring buffer does cmpxchg as well as atomic64 operations
+	 * (which some archs use locking for atomic64), make sure this
+	 * is safe in NMI context
+	 */
+	if ((!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG) ||
+	     IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64)) &&
 	    (unlikely(in_nmi()))) {
 		return NULL;
 	}






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