Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix a race in function profile

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Aug 30 2010 - 19:32:26 EST


On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 16:50 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> While we are reading trace_stat/functionX and someone just
> disabled function_profile at that time, we can trigger this:
>
> divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> ...
> EIP is at function_stat_show+0x90/0x230
> ...
>
> This fix just takes the ftrace_profile_lock and checks if
> rec->counter is 0. If it's 0, we know the profile buffer
> has been reset.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Li!

I'll add this to my queue, test it, and then push it up as a -rc and
stable fix.

-- Steve

> ---
> kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 15 +++++++++++----
> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> index 0d88ce9..7cb1f45 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> @@ -381,12 +381,19 @@ static int function_stat_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> {
> struct ftrace_profile *rec = v;
> char str[KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN];
> + int ret = 0;
> #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> - static DEFINE_MUTEX(mutex);
> static struct trace_seq s;
> unsigned long long avg;
> unsigned long long stddev;
> #endif
> + mutex_lock(&ftrace_profile_lock);
> +
> + /* we raced with function_profile_reset() */
> + if (unlikely(rec->counter == 0)) {
> + ret = -EBUSY;
> + goto out;
> + }
>
> kallsyms_lookup(rec->ip, NULL, NULL, NULL, str);
> seq_printf(m, " %-30.30s %10lu", str, rec->counter);
> @@ -408,7 +415,6 @@ static int function_stat_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> do_div(stddev, (rec->counter - 1) * 1000);
> }
>
> - mutex_lock(&mutex);
> trace_seq_init(&s);
> trace_print_graph_duration(rec->time, &s);
> trace_seq_puts(&s, " ");
> @@ -416,11 +422,12 @@ static int function_stat_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> trace_seq_puts(&s, " ");
> trace_print_graph_duration(stddev, &s);
> trace_print_seq(m, &s);
> - mutex_unlock(&mutex);
> #endif
> seq_putc(m, '\n');
> +out:
> + mutex_unlock(&ftrace_profile_lock);
>
> - return 0;
> + return ret;
> }
>
> static void ftrace_profile_reset(struct ftrace_profile_stat *stat)


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