[PATCH 1/2] tracing: Move mutex to protect against resetting of seq data

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sun Sep 25 2016 - 19:25:20 EST


From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The iter->seq can be reset outside the protection of the mutex. So can
reading of user data. Move the mutex up to the beginning of the function.

Fixes: d7350c3f45694 ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 2.6.30+
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 8a4bd6b68a0b..8fb4847b0450 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4890,19 +4890,20 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
struct trace_iterator *iter = filp->private_data;
ssize_t sret;

- /* return any leftover data */
- sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt);
- if (sret != -EBUSY)
- return sret;
-
- trace_seq_init(&iter->seq);
-
/*
* Avoid more than one consumer on a single file descriptor
* This is just a matter of traces coherency, the ring buffer itself
* is protected.
*/
mutex_lock(&iter->mutex);
+
+ /* return any leftover data */
+ sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt);
+ if (sret != -EBUSY)
+ goto out;
+
+ trace_seq_init(&iter->seq);
+
if (iter->trace->read) {
sret = iter->trace->read(iter, filp, ubuf, cnt, ppos);
if (sret)
--
2.8.1