[for-linus][PATCH 2/8] tracing: Stop current tracer when resizing buffer

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Dec 06 2023 - 21:38:00 EST


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

When the ring buffer is being resized, it can cause side effects to the
running tracer. For instance, there's a race with irqsoff tracer that
swaps individual per cpu buffers between the main buffer and the snapshot
buffer. The resize operation modifies the main buffer and then the
snapshot buffer. If a swap happens in between those two operations it will
break the tracer.

Simply stop the running tracer before resizing the buffers and enable it
again when finished.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205220010.748996423@xxxxxxxxxxx

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 3928a8a2d9808 ("ftrace: make work with new ring buffer")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 231c173ec04f..e978868b1a22 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -6387,9 +6387,12 @@ static int __tracing_resize_ring_buffer(struct trace_array *tr,
if (!tr->array_buffer.buffer)
return 0;

+ /* Do not allow tracing while resizng ring buffer */
+ tracing_stop_tr(tr);
+
ret = ring_buffer_resize(tr->array_buffer.buffer, size, cpu);
if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
+ goto out_start;

#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
if (!tr->current_trace->use_max_tr)
@@ -6417,7 +6420,7 @@ static int __tracing_resize_ring_buffer(struct trace_array *tr,
WARN_ON(1);
tracing_disabled = 1;
}
- return ret;
+ goto out_start;
}

update_buffer_entries(&tr->max_buffer, cpu);
@@ -6426,7 +6429,8 @@ static int __tracing_resize_ring_buffer(struct trace_array *tr,
#endif /* CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE */

update_buffer_entries(&tr->array_buffer, cpu);
-
+ out_start:
+ tracing_start_tr(tr);
return ret;
}

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2.42.0