4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org
[ Upstream commit 712292308af2265cd9b126aedfa987f10f452a33 ]
As the ring buffer recording requires cmpxchg() to work, if the architecture does not support cmpxchg in NMI, then do not do any recording within an NMI.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231213175403.6fc18540@gandalf.l...
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index b627bc820540..d2903d8834fe 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -2891,6 +2891,12 @@ rb_reserve_next_event(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int nr_loops = 0; u64 diff;
+ /* ring buffer does cmpxchg, make sure it is safe in NMI context */ + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG) && + (unlikely(in_nmi()))) { + return NULL; + } + rb_start_commit(cpu_buffer);
#ifdef CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP