linux-kernel - [for-linus][PATCH 01/13] ring-buffer: Clean ring_buffer_poll

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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:30:00 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 stable@...r.kernel.org,
 Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 01/13] ring-buffer: Clean ring_buffer_poll_wait() error return

From: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>

The return type for ring_buffer_poll_wait() is __poll_t. This is behind
the scenes an unsigned where we can set event bits. In case of a
non-allocated CPU, we do return instead -EINVAL (0xffffffea). Lucky us,
this ends up setting few error bits (EPOLLERR | EPOLLHUP | EPOLLNVAL), so
user-space at least is aware something went wrong.

Nonetheless, this is an incorrect code. Replace that -EINVAL with a
proper EPOLLERR to clean that output. As this doesn't change the
behaviour, there's no need to treat this change as a bug fix.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240131140955.3322792-1-vdonnefort@google.com

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 6721cb6002262 ("ring-buffer: Do not poll non allocated cpu buffers")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 13aaf5e85b81..fd4bfe3ecf01 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ __poll_t ring_buffer_poll_wait(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu,
 		full = 0;
 	} else {
 		if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, buffer->cpumask))
-			return -EINVAL;
+			return EPOLLERR;
 
 		cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
 		work = &cpu_buffer->irq_work;
-- 
2.43.0