Re: WARNING in tracepoint_probe_register_prio

[Jens Axboe]

On 10/31/2017 05:14 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:30:41 -0600
> Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This code dates back to:
>>
>> commit c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199
>> Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Fri Jan 23 12:06:27 2009 -0200
>>
>>     blktrace: add ftrace plugin
>>
>> so not really a recent regression :-)
> 
> How many people run two instances of blktrace? ;-> 
> Love fuzzers!

The core code is fine, the bug is actually in sg which added
hooks for both doing setup/teardown and start/stop of tracing.
This was done bypassing the internal locking...

The below should do the trick. It's a fix for this commit:

commit 6da127ad0918f93ea93678dad62ce15ffed18797
Author: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Jan 11 10:09:43 2008 +0100

    blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices


diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 45a3928544ce..ea57dd94b2b2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static void blk_trace_cleanup(struct blk_trace *bt)
 		blk_unregister_tracepoints();
 }
 
-int blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
+static int __blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
 {
 	struct blk_trace *bt;
 
@@ -349,6 +349,17 @@ int blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+int blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+	ret = __blk_trace_remove(q);
+	mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_remove);
 
 static ssize_t blk_dropped_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buffer,
@@ -550,9 +561,8 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-int blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
-		    struct block_device *bdev,
-		    char __user *arg)
+static int __blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
+			     struct block_device *bdev, char __user *arg)
 {
 	struct blk_user_trace_setup buts;
 	int ret;
@@ -571,6 +581,19 @@ int blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
+
+int blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
+		    struct block_device *bdev,
+		    char __user *arg)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+	ret = __blk_trace_setup(q, name, dev, bdev, arg);
+	mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_setup);
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_COMPAT) && defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
@@ -607,7 +630,7 @@ static int compat_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name,
 }
 #endif
 
-int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
+static int __blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
 {
 	int ret;
 	struct blk_trace *bt = q->blk_trace;
@@ -646,6 +669,17 @@ int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
 
 	return ret;
 }
+
+int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+	ret = __blk_trace_startstop(q, start);
+	mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_startstop);
 
 /*
@@ -676,7 +710,7 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
 	switch (cmd) {
 	case BLKTRACESETUP:
 		bdevname(bdev, b);
-		ret = blk_trace_setup(q, b, bdev->bd_dev, bdev, arg);
+		ret = __blk_trace_setup(q, b, bdev->bd_dev, bdev, arg);
 		break;
 #if defined(CONFIG_COMPAT) && defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
 	case BLKTRACESETUP32:
@@ -687,10 +721,10 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
 	case BLKTRACESTART:
 		start = 1;
 	case BLKTRACESTOP:
-		ret = blk_trace_startstop(q, start);
+		ret = __blk_trace_startstop(q, start);
 		break;
 	case BLKTRACETEARDOWN:
-		ret = blk_trace_remove(q);
+		ret = __blk_trace_remove(q);
 		break;
 	default:
 		ret = -ENOTTY;
@@ -708,10 +742,14 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
  **/
 void blk_trace_shutdown(struct request_queue *q)
 {
+	mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
 	if (q->blk_trace) {
-		blk_trace_startstop(q, 0);
-		blk_trace_remove(q);
+		__blk_trace_startstop(q, 0);
+		__blk_trace_remove(q);
 	}
+
+	mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP

-- 
Jens Axboe