linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 03/24] fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph

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Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:02:37 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, pierre.gondois@....com,
        "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 03/24] fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation

From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

commit 7e0a9220467dbcfdc5bc62825724f3e52e50ab31 upstream.

On some archs, the idle task can call into cpu_suspend(). The cpu_suspend()
will disable or pause function graph tracing, as there's some paths in
bringing down the CPU that can have issues with its return address being
modified. The task_struct structure has a "tracing_graph_pause" atomic
counter, that when set to something other than zero, the function graph
tracer will not modify the return address.

The problem is that the tracing_graph_pause counter is initialized when the
function graph tracer is enabled. This can corrupt the counter for the idle
task if it is suspended in these architectures.

   CPU 1				CPU 2
   -----				-----
  do_idle()
    cpu_suspend()
      pause_graph_tracing()
          task_struct->tracing_graph_pause++ (0 -> 1)

				start_graph_tracing()
				  for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
				    ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(cpu)
				      task-struct->tracing_graph_pause = 0 (1 -> 0)

      unpause_graph_tracing()
          task_struct->tracing_graph_pause-- (0 -> -1)

The above should have gone from 1 to zero, and enabled function graph
tracing again. But instead, it is set to -1, which keeps it disabled.

There's no reason that the field tracing_graph_pause on the task_struct can
not be initialized at boot up.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 380c4b1411ccd ("tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flag")
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211339
Reported-by: pierre.gondois@....com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 init/init_task.c      |    3 ++-
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c |    2 --
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/init/init_task.c
+++ b/init/init_task.c
@@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ struct task_struct init_task
 	.lockdep_recursion = 0,
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
-	.ret_stack	= NULL,
+	.ret_stack		= NULL,
+	.tracing_graph_pause	= ATOMIC_INIT(0),
 #endif
 #if defined(CONFIG_TRACING) && defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
 	.trace_recursion = 0,
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -6875,7 +6875,6 @@ static int alloc_retstack_tasklist(struc
 		}
 
 		if (t->ret_stack == NULL) {
-			atomic_set(&t->tracing_graph_pause, 0);
 			atomic_set(&t->trace_overrun, 0);
 			t->curr_ret_stack = -1;
 			t->curr_ret_depth = -1;
@@ -7088,7 +7087,6 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct ftrace_ret_
 static void
 graph_init_task(struct task_struct *t, struct ftrace_ret_stack *ret_stack)
 {
-	atomic_set(&t->tracing_graph_pause, 0);
 	atomic_set(&t->trace_overrun, 0);
 	t->ftrace_timestamp = 0;
 	/* make curr_ret_stack visible before we add the ret_stack */