Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf/ring_buffer: Fix exposing a temporarily decreased data_head.

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 03:05:09PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > In perf_output_put_handle(), an IRQ/NMI can happen in below location and
> > > write records to the same ring buffer:
> > > 	...
> > > 	local_dec_and_test(&rb->nest)
> > > 	...                          <-- an IRQ/NMI can happen here
> > > 	rb->user_page->data_head = head;
> > > 	...
> > > 
> > > In this case, a value A is written to data_head in the IRQ, then a value
> > > B is written to data_head after the IRQ. And A > B. As a result,
> > > data_head is temporarily decreased from A to B. And a reader may see
> > > data_head < data_tail if it read the buffer frequently enough, which
> > > creates unexpected behaviors.
> > > 
> > > This can be fixed by moving dec(&rb->nest) to after updating data_head,
> > > which prevents the IRQ/NMI above from updating data_head.
> > > 
> > > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Fixes: ef60777c9abd ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables")
> > > Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516184010.167903-1-yabinc@xxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > So these are missing a bunch of:
> > 
> >   From: Yabin Cui <yabinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > lines, right?
> > 
> 
> The first. certainly, the rest, while inspired by his patch, is more
> complete than what he did.

Oh, indeed - I adjusted the first patch only.

Thanks,

	Ingo