Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix the unusable problem caused by non-empty pipe_cpumask

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Sep 01 2023 - 21:26:30 EST


On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 23:02:06 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 15:26:26 +0800
> Chuang Wang <nashuiliang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > There is a problem in the linux-6.5 when I execute the following
> > command:
> >
> > $ perf ftrace -t irqsoff
> > failed to open trace_pipe
> >
> > At the same time, when I open this file, the same error occurs.
> >
> > Therefore, after carefully looking at the code, the open function of
> > 'trace_pipe' returns -EBUSY in open_pipe_on_cpu() because no clearing
> > operation was performed when 'trace_array->pipe_cpumask' was allocated.
> >
> > With this patch, Use zalloc_cpumask_var() to ensure that
> > 'trace_array->pipe_cpumask' is reset to 0 when allocated.


Brian Foster beat you to it.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230831125500.986862-1-bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx


>
> Good catch. This looks good to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Masami, I'll add your Reviewed-by to that commit.

Thanks!

-- Steve

> >
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: c2489bb7e6be ("tracing: Introduce pipe_cpumask to avoid race on trace_pipes")
> > Signed-off-by: Chuang Wang <nashuiliang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > index d8233d34b5a0..c0b8a72f3466 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > @@ -9461,7 +9461,7 @@ static struct trace_array *trace_array_create(const char *name)
> > if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&tr->tracing_cpumask, GFP_KERNEL))
> > goto out_free_tr;
> >
> > - if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&tr->pipe_cpumask, GFP_KERNEL))
> > + if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tr->pipe_cpumask, GFP_KERNEL))
> > goto out_free_tr;
> >
> > tr->trace_flags = global_trace.trace_flags & ~ZEROED_TRACE_FLAGS;
> > @@ -10406,7 +10406,7 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void)
> > if (trace_create_savedcmd() < 0)
> > goto out_free_temp_buffer;
> >
> > - if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&global_trace.pipe_cpumask, GFP_KERNEL))
> > + if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&global_trace.pipe_cpumask, GFP_KERNEL))
> > goto out_free_savedcmd;
> >
> > /* TODO: make the number of buffers hot pluggable with CPUS */
> > --
> > 2.39.2
> >
>
>