Re: [PATCH] ring_buffer: reset write when reserve buffer fail

From: Lai Jiangshan
Date: Tue Jan 13 2009 - 22:05:52 EST


Hi, Steven Rostedt,

Have you seen these two patches?
(other patch is "[PATCH -tip] ftrace: fix trace_output")

Thanks, Lai

Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> Impact: reset struct buffer_page.write when interrupt storm
>
> if struct buffer_page.write is not reset, any succedent committing
> will corrupted ring_buffer:
>
> static inline void
> rb_set_commit_to_write(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
> {
> ......
> cpu_buffer->commit_page->commit =
> cpu_buffer->commit_page->write;
> ......
> }
>
>
> when "if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, next_page == reader_page))", ring_buffer
> is disabled, but some reserved buffers may haven't been committed.
> we need reset struct buffer_page.write.
>
> when "if (unlikely(next_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page))", ring_buffer
> is still available, we should not corrupt it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> index 8b0daf0..18bfd76 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> @@ -1025,12 +1025,8 @@ __rb_reserve_next(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
> }
>
> if (next_page == head_page) {
> - if (!(buffer->flags & RB_FL_OVERWRITE)) {
> - /* reset write */
> - if (tail <= BUF_PAGE_SIZE)
> - local_set(&tail_page->write, tail);
> + if (!(buffer->flags & RB_FL_OVERWRITE))
> goto out_unlock;
> - }
>
> /* tail_page has not moved yet? */
> if (tail_page == cpu_buffer->tail_page) {
> @@ -1105,6 +1101,10 @@ __rb_reserve_next(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
> return event;
>
> out_unlock:
> + /* reset write */
> + if (tail <= BUF_PAGE_SIZE)
> + local_set(&tail_page->write, tail);
> +
> __raw_spin_unlock(&cpu_buffer->lock);
> local_irq_restore(flags);
> return NULL;
>
>
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