linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf/ring_buffer: Fix exposing a temporarily decreased data

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Date:   Fri, 17 May 2019 16:26:48 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     yabinc@...gle.com, acme@...nel.org,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, jolsa@...hat.com,
        namhyung@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf/ring_buffer: Fix exposing a temporarily
 decreased data_head.

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 03:05:09PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > In perf_output_put_handle(), an IRQ/NMI can happen in below location and
> > write records to the same ring buffer:
> > 	...
> > 	local_dec_and_test(&rb->nest)
> > 	...                          <-- an IRQ/NMI can happen here
> > 	rb->user_page->data_head = head;
> > 	...
> > 
> > In this case, a value A is written to data_head in the IRQ, then a value
> > B is written to data_head after the IRQ. And A > B. As a result,
> > data_head is temporarily decreased from A to B. And a reader may see
> > data_head < data_tail if it read the buffer frequently enough, which
> > creates unexpected behaviors.
> > 
> > This can be fixed by moving dec(&rb->nest) to after updating data_head,
> > which prevents the IRQ/NMI above from updating data_head.
> > 
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> > Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
> > Fixes: ef60777c9abd ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables")
> > Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@...gle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516184010.167903-1-yabinc@google.com
> 
> So these are missing a bunch of:
> 
>   From: Yabin Cui <yabinc@...gle.com>
> 
> lines, right?
> 

The first. certainly, the rest, while inspired by his patch, is more
complete than what he did.