Re: [PATCH] tracing: Have the error of __tracing_resize_ring_buffer() passed to user

From: Google
Date: Thu Feb 13 2025 - 19:27:43 EST


On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:41:32 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently if __tracing_resize_ring_buffer() returns an error, the
> tracing_resize_ringbuffer() returns -ENOMEM. But it may not be a memory
> issue that caused the function to fail. If the ring buffer is memory
> mapped, then the resizing of the ring buffer will be disabled. But if the
> user tries to resize the buffer, it will get an -ENOMEM returned, which is
> confusing because there is plenty of memory. The actual error returned was
> -EBUSY, which would make much more sense to the user.
>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 117c39200d9d7 ("ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions")
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 +-------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 1496a5ac33ae..25ff37aab00f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -5977,8 +5977,6 @@ static int __tracing_resize_ring_buffer(struct trace_array *tr,
> ssize_t tracing_resize_ring_buffer(struct trace_array *tr,
> unsigned long size, int cpu_id)
> {
> - int ret;
> -
> guard(mutex)(&trace_types_lock);
>
> if (cpu_id != RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) {
> @@ -5987,11 +5985,7 @@ ssize_t tracing_resize_ring_buffer(struct trace_array *tr,
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - ret = __tracing_resize_ring_buffer(tr, size, cpu_id);
> - if (ret < 0)
> - ret = -ENOMEM;
> -
> - return ret;
> + return __tracing_resize_ring_buffer(tr, size, cpu_id);
> }
>
> static void update_last_data(struct trace_array *tr)
> --
> 2.47.2
>


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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>