[for-next][PATCH 4/9] ring-buffer: Make cpu_buffer::free_page a buffer_data_read_page

Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]>

Discarding a cached reader page after a concurrent ring buffer resize
uses the new global subbuf_order for the free_pages() call. This
mismatched order may crashes the kernel or leaks memory because the cached
page was allocated under the old size.

Save the actual free_page order alongside the page address to ensure we
always refer to the correct value and do not rely on the potentially
stalled cpu_buffer->subbuf_order value. The simplest is to make
free_page a buffer_data_read_page which already covers exactly what we
need: a page address and a page order.

Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Fixes: 8e7b58c27b3c ("ring-buffer: Just update the subbuffers when changing their allocation order")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 0479c404db03..0d35fd90ea1d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ struct ring_buffer_per_cpu {
 	raw_spinlock_t			reader_lock;	/* serialize readers */
 	arch_spinlock_t			lock;
 	struct lock_class_key		lock_key;
-	struct buffer_data_page		*free_page;
+	struct buffer_data_read_page	free_page;
 	unsigned long			nr_pages;
 	unsigned int			current_context;
 	struct list_head		*pages;
@@ -2631,7 +2631,7 @@ static void rb_free_cpu_buffer(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 		free_buffer_page(bpage);
 	}
 
-	free_pages((unsigned long)cpu_buffer->free_page, cpu_buffer->buffer->subbuf_order);
+	free_pages((unsigned long)cpu_buffer->free_page.data, cpu_buffer->free_page.order);
 
 	kfree(cpu_buffer);
 }
@@ -6962,9 +6962,9 @@ ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	arch_spin_lock(&cpu_buffer->lock);
 
-	if (cpu_buffer->free_page) {
-		bpage->data = cpu_buffer->free_page;
-		cpu_buffer->free_page = NULL;
+	if (cpu_buffer->free_page.data) {
+		*bpage = cpu_buffer->free_page;
+		cpu_buffer->free_page.data = NULL;
 	}
 
 	arch_spin_unlock(&cpu_buffer->lock);
@@ -7016,8 +7016,8 @@ void ring_buffer_free_read_page(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu,
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	arch_spin_lock(&cpu_buffer->lock);
 
-	if (!cpu_buffer->free_page) {
-		cpu_buffer->free_page = dpage;
+	if (!cpu_buffer->free_page.data) {
+		cpu_buffer->free_page = *data_page;
 		dpage = NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -7390,7 +7390,7 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order)
 	}
 
 	for_each_buffer_cpu(buffer, cpu) {
-		struct buffer_data_page *old_free_data_page;
+		struct buffer_data_read_page old_free_data_page;
 		struct list_head old_pages;
 		unsigned long flags;
 
@@ -7433,7 +7433,7 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order)
 
 		arch_spin_lock(&cpu_buffer->lock);
 		old_free_data_page = cpu_buffer->free_page;
-		cpu_buffer->free_page = NULL;
+		cpu_buffer->free_page.data = NULL;
 		arch_spin_unlock(&cpu_buffer->lock);
 
 		rb_head_page_activate(cpu_buffer);
@@ -7445,7 +7445,7 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order)
 			list_del_init(&bpage->list);
 			free_buffer_page(bpage);
 		}
-		free_pages((unsigned long)old_free_data_page, old_order);
+		free_pages((unsigned long)old_free_data_page.data, old_free_data_page.order);
 
 		rb_check_pages(cpu_buffer);
 	}
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