linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ring-buffer: Do not allow events in NMI with generic atomic64 cmpxchg()

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Message-Id: <20250121165902.c671d578a19c0980c826eabb@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:59:02 +0900
From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Masami
 Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>, Andrew Morton
 <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Thomas
 Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Linus Torvalds
 <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Ludwig Rydberg
 <ludwig.rydberg@...sler.com>, Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>,
 stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ring-buffer: Do not allow events in NMI with
 generic atomic64 cmpxchg()

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:56:56 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> Some architectures can not safely do atomic64 operations in NMI context.
> Since the ring buffer relies on atomic64 operations to do its time
> keeping, if an event is requested in NMI context, reject it for these
> architectures.
> 

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>

> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: c84897c0ff592 ("ring-buffer: Remove 32bit timestamp logic")
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/86fb4f86-a0e4-45a2-a2df-3154acc4f086@gaisler.com/
> Reported-by: Ludwig Rydberg <ludwig.rydberg@...sler.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> index 6d61ff78926b..b8e0ae15ca5b 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> @@ -4398,8 +4398,13 @@ rb_reserve_next_event(struct trace_buffer *buffer,
>  	int nr_loops = 0;
>  	int add_ts_default;
>  
> -	/* ring buffer does cmpxchg, make sure it is safe in NMI context */
> -	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG) &&
> +	/*
> +	 * ring buffer does cmpxchg as well as atomic64 operations
> +	 * (which some archs use locking for atomic64), make sure this
> +	 * is safe in NMI context
> +	 */
> +	if ((!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG) ||
> +	     IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64)) &&
>  	    (unlikely(in_nmi()))) {
>  		return NULL;
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.45.2
> 
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>