The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From 0bbe7f719985efd9adb3454679ecef0984cb6800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xiao Yang yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:51:45 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix the race between registering 'snapshot' event trigger and triggering 'snapshot' operation
Traced event can trigger 'snapshot' operation(i.e. calls snapshot_trigger() or snapshot_count_trigger()) when register_snapshot_trigger() has completed registration but doesn't allocate buffer for 'snapshot' event trigger. In the rare case, 'snapshot' operation always detects the lack of allocated buffer so make register_snapshot_trigger() allocate buffer first.
trigger-snapshot.tc in kselftest reproduces the issue on slow vm: ----------------------------------------------------------- cat trace ... ftracetest-3028 [002] .... 236.784290: sched_process_fork: comm=ftracetest pid=3028 child_comm=ftracetest child_pid=3036 <...>-2875 [003] .... 240.460335: tracing_snapshot_instance_cond: *** SNAPSHOT NOT ALLOCATED *** <...>-2875 [003] .... 240.460338: tracing_snapshot_instance_cond: *** stopping trace here! *** -----------------------------------------------------------
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414015145.66236-1-yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 93e31ffbf417a ("tracing: Add 'snapshot' event trigger command") Signed-off-by: Xiao Yang yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c index dd34a1b46a86..3a74736da363 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c @@ -1088,14 +1088,10 @@ register_snapshot_trigger(char *glob, struct event_trigger_ops *ops, struct event_trigger_data *data, struct trace_event_file *file) { - int ret = register_trigger(glob, ops, data, file); - - if (ret > 0 && tracing_alloc_snapshot_instance(file->tr) != 0) { - unregister_trigger(glob, ops, data, file); - ret = 0; - } + if (tracing_alloc_snapshot_instance(file->tr) != 0) + return 0;
- return ret; + return register_trigger(glob, ops, data, file); }
static int