linux-kernel - [PATCH printk-rework 10/14] um: synchronize kmsg

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Message-Id: <20210218081817.28849-11-john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Date:   Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:18:13 +0100
From:   John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Subject: [PATCH printk-rework 10/14] um: synchronize kmsg_dumper

The kmsg_dumper can be called from any context and CPU, possibly
from multiple CPUs simultaneously. Since a static buffer is used
to retrieve the kernel logs, this buffer must be protected against
simultaneous dumping.

Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
---
 arch/um/kernel/kmsg_dump.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/kmsg_dump.c b/arch/um/kernel/kmsg_dump.c
index f38349ad00ea..173999422ed8 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/kmsg_dump.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/kmsg_dump.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 #include <linux/kmsg_dump.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/console.h>
 #include <shared/init.h>
 #include <shared/kern.h>
@@ -9,8 +10,10 @@ static void kmsg_dumper_stdout(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 				enum kmsg_dump_reason reason,
 				struct kmsg_dumper_iter *iter)
 {
+	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock);
 	static char line[1024];
 	struct console *con;
+	unsigned long flags;
 	size_t len = 0;
 
 	/* only dump kmsg when no console is available */
@@ -25,11 +28,16 @@ static void kmsg_dumper_stdout(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
 	if (con)
 		return;
 
+	if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&lock, flags))
+		return;
+
 	printf("kmsg_dump:\n");
 	while (kmsg_dump_get_line(iter, true, line, sizeof(line), &len)) {
 		line[len] = '\0';
 		printf("%s", line);
 	}
+
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lock, flags);
 }
 
 static struct kmsg_dumper kmsg_dumper = {
-- 
2.20.1