Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix unload_page for simple_ring_buffer init rollback

From: Vincent Donnefort

Date: Thu May 21 2026 - 09:27:44 EST


On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 08:31:07AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2026 15:16:14 +0100
> Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The unload_page callback expects the return value of load_page() as its
> > argument: ret = load_page(va); unload(ret). Fix the rollback code in
> > simple_ring_buffer_init_mm() where the descriptor's VA is used instead
> > of the loaded page address.
> >
> > Fixes: 635923081c79 ("tracing: load/unload page callbacks for simple_ring_buffer")
> > Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c
> > index 02af2297ae5a..38cf9abe0be8 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c
> > @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ int simple_ring_buffer_init_mm(struct simple_rb_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
> >
> > if (ret) {
> > for (i--; i >= 0; i--)
> > - unload_page((void *)desc->page_va[i]);
> > + unload_page(bpages[i].page);
> > unload_page(cpu_buffer->meta);
> >
> > return ret;
> >
> > base-commit: 5d6919055dec134de3c40167a490f33c74c12581
>
> Vincent,
>
> Did you make this patch because of the Sashiko report?
>
> https://sashiko.dev/?list=org.kernel.vger.linux-trace-kernel#/patchset/20260512135420.99194-1-devnexen%40gmail.com
>
> If so, I think we can add a: Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>

I did not for this one, but I have used this tag few times since yesterday [1] though :)

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260521102149.804874-2-vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260521124613.911067-4-vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx/

>
> -- Steve