[for-linus][PATCH 2/3] tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap

[Steven Rostedt]

From: Ivan Immanuel Shaji <ivanimmanuel1234@xxxxxxxxx>

simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page() starts with retry set to 8 and
post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final
attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a failed
replacement leaves it at -1.

The current !retry test reverses both outcomes. It returns an error after
a successful final replacement, leaving the link update complete but the
reader bookkeeping unfinished. After a failed final replacement, it
falls through and updates the head and reader pointers as though the
replacement succeeded, which can corrupt the ring.

Treat only a negative counter as exhaustion and return the documented
-EBUSY error.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 34e5b958bdad ("tracing: Introduce simple_ring_buffer")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260825-kernel-patch-1-v2-1-bb3461807a32@xxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: LLM sparse
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Immanuel Shaji <ivanimmanuel1234@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c
index f4642f5adda3..49913bb0057a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c
@@ -160,8 +160,8 @@ int simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page(struct simple_rb_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 		overrun = cpu_buffer->meta->overrun;
 	} while (!simple_bpage_unset_head_link(last, reader, SIMPLE_RB_LINK_NORMAL) && retry--);
 
-	if (!retry)
-		return -EINVAL;
+	if (retry < 0)
+		return -EBUSY;
 
 	cpu_buffer->head_page = simple_bpage_from_link(reader->link.next);
 	cpu_buffer->head_page->link.prev = &reader->link;
-- 
2.53.0