[PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix deadloop issue on reading trace_pipe

[Zheng Yejian]

Soft lockup occurs when reading file 'trace_pipe':

  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 22s! [cat:4488]
  [...]
  RIP: 0010:ring_buffer_empty_cpu+0xed/0x170
  RSP: 0018:ffff88810dd6fc48 EFLAGS: 00000246
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: ffffffff93d1aaeb
  RDX: ffff88810a280040 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88811164b218
  RBP: ffff88811164b218 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88815156600f
  R10: ffffed102a2acc01 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000051651901
  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888115e49500 R15: 0000000000000000
  [...]
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007f8d853c2000 CR3: 000000010dcd8000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Call Trace:
   __find_next_entry+0x1a8/0x4b0
   ? peek_next_entry+0x250/0x250
   ? down_write+0xa5/0x120
   ? down_write_killable+0x130/0x130
   trace_find_next_entry_inc+0x3b/0x1d0
   tracing_read_pipe+0x423/0xae0
   ? tracing_splice_read_pipe+0xcb0/0xcb0
   vfs_read+0x16b/0x490
   ksys_read+0x105/0x210
   ? __ia32_sys_pwrite64+0x200/0x200
   ? switch_fpu_return+0x108/0x220
   do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6

Through the vmcore, I found it's because in tracing_read_pipe(),
ring_buffer_empty_cpu() found some buffer is not empty but then it
cannot read anything due to "rb_num_of_entries() == 0" always true,
Then it infinitely loop the procedure due to user buffer not been
filled, see following code path:

  tracing_read_pipe() {
    ... ...
    waitagain:
      tracing_wait_pipe() // 1. find non-empty buffer here
      trace_find_next_entry_inc()  // 2. loop here try to find an entry
        __find_next_entry()
          ring_buffer_empty_cpu();  // 3. find non-empty buffer
          peek_next_entry()  // 4. but peek always return NULL
            ring_buffer_peek()
              rb_buffer_peek()
                rb_get_reader_page()
                  // 5. because rb_num_of_entries() == 0 always true here
                  //    then return NULL
      // 6. user buffer not been filled so goto 'waitgain'
      //    and eventually leads to an deadloop in kernel!!!
  }

By some analyzing, I found that when resetting ringbuffer, the 'entries'
of its pages are not all cleared (see rb_reset_cpu()). Then when reducing
the ringbuffer, and if some reduced pages exist dirty 'entries' data, they
will be added into 'cpu_buffer->overrun' (see rb_remove_pages()), which
cause wrong 'overrun' count and eventually cause the deadloop issue.

To fix it, we need to clear every pages in rb_reset_cpu().

Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 834b361a4a66..14d8001140c8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -5242,28 +5242,34 @@ unsigned long ring_buffer_size(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_size);
 
+static void rb_clear_buffer_page(struct buffer_page *page)
+{
+	local_set(&page->write, 0);
+	local_set(&page->entries, 0);
+	rb_init_page(page->page);
+	page->read = 0;
+}
+
 static void
 rb_reset_cpu(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 {
+	struct buffer_page *page;
+
 	rb_head_page_deactivate(cpu_buffer);
 
 	cpu_buffer->head_page
 		= list_entry(cpu_buffer->pages, struct buffer_page, list);
-	local_set(&cpu_buffer->head_page->write, 0);
-	local_set(&cpu_buffer->head_page->entries, 0);
-	local_set(&cpu_buffer->head_page->page->commit, 0);
-
-	cpu_buffer->head_page->read = 0;
+	rb_clear_buffer_page(cpu_buffer->head_page);
+	list_for_each_entry(page, cpu_buffer->pages, list) {
+		rb_clear_buffer_page(page);
+	}
 
 	cpu_buffer->tail_page = cpu_buffer->head_page;
 	cpu_buffer->commit_page = cpu_buffer->head_page;
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cpu_buffer->reader_page->list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cpu_buffer->new_pages);
-	local_set(&cpu_buffer->reader_page->write, 0);
-	local_set(&cpu_buffer->reader_page->entries, 0);
-	local_set(&cpu_buffer->reader_page->page->commit, 0);
-	cpu_buffer->reader_page->read = 0;
+	rb_clear_buffer_page(cpu_buffer->reader_page);
 
 	local_set(&cpu_buffer->entries_bytes, 0);
 	local_set(&cpu_buffer->overrun, 0);
-- 
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