2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Steven Rostedt commit 98db8df777438e16ad0f44a0fba05ebbdb73db8d upstream. Impact: eliminate false WARN_ON message If an interrupt goes off after the setting of the local variable tail_page and before incrementing the write index of that page, the interrupt could push the commit forward to the next page. Later a check is made to see if interrupts pushed the buffer around the entire ring buffer by comparing the next page to the last commited page. This can produce a false positive if the interrupt had pushed the commit page forward as stated above. Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race. Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -880,12 +880,15 @@ static struct ring_buffer_event * __rb_reserve_next(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, unsigned type, unsigned long length, u64 *ts) { - struct buffer_page *tail_page, *head_page, *reader_page; + struct buffer_page *tail_page, *head_page, *reader_page, *commit_page; unsigned long tail, write; struct ring_buffer *buffer = cpu_buffer->buffer; struct ring_buffer_event *event; unsigned long flags; + commit_page = cpu_buffer->commit_page; + /* we just need to protect against interrupts */ + barrier(); tail_page = cpu_buffer->tail_page; write = local_add_return(length, &tail_page->write); tail = write - length; @@ -909,7 +912,7 @@ __rb_reserve_next(struct ring_buffer_per * it all the way around the buffer, bail, and warn * about it. */ - if (unlikely(next_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page)) { + if (unlikely(next_page == commit_page)) { WARN_ON_ONCE(1); goto out_unlock; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/