From: Steven Rostedt Usually reads of the ring buffer is performed by a single task. There are two types of reads from the ring buffer. One is a consuming read which will consume the entry that was read and the next read will be the entry that follows. The other is an iterator that will let the user read the contents of the ring buffer without modifying it. When an iterator is allocated, writes to the ring buffer are disabled to protect the iterator. The problem exists when consuming reads happen while an iterator is allocated. Specifically, the kind of read that swaps out an entire page (used by splice) and replaces it with a new read. If the iterator is on the page that is swapped out, then the next read may read from this swapped out page and return garbage. This patch adds a check when reading the iterator to make sure that the iterator contents are still valid. If a consuming read has taken place, the iterator is reset. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index edefe3b..503b630 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ struct ring_buffer_iter { struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer; unsigned long head; struct buffer_page *head_page; + struct buffer_page *cache_reader_page; + unsigned long cache_read; u64 read_stamp; }; @@ -2716,6 +2718,8 @@ static void rb_iter_reset(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter) iter->read_stamp = cpu_buffer->read_stamp; else iter->read_stamp = iter->head_page->page->time_stamp; + iter->cache_reader_page = cpu_buffer->reader_page; + iter->cache_read = cpu_buffer->read; } /** @@ -3066,6 +3070,15 @@ rb_iter_peek(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter, u64 *ts) cpu_buffer = iter->cpu_buffer; buffer = cpu_buffer->buffer; + /* + * Check if someone performed a consuming read to + * the buffer. A consuming read invalidates the iterator + * and we need to reset the iterator in this case. + */ + if (unlikely(iter->cache_read != cpu_buffer->read || + iter->cache_reader_page != cpu_buffer->reader_page)) + rb_iter_reset(iter); + again: /* * We repeat when a timestamp is encountered. -- 1.6.5 -- 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/