linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/8] ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_meta

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20250205225103.425325060@goodmis.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:50:34 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-trace-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>
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_meta_scratch()

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

Now that there's one page at the start of the persistent memory used by
the ring buffer, make the part of that page that is not used by the ring
buffer available for the tracer to use. This will allow the tracer to
store its own persistent data.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 include/linux/ring_buffer.h |  1 +
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c  | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
index 8de035f4f0d9..b95f940fd07a 100644
--- a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
+++ b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ struct trace_buffer *__ring_buffer_alloc_range(unsigned long size, unsigned flag
 					       struct lock_class_key *key);
 
 bool ring_buffer_last_boot_delta(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned long *kaslr_addr);
+void *ring_buffer_meta_scratch(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned int *size);
 
 /*
  * Because the ring buffer is generic, if other users of the ring buffer get
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 0446d053dbd6..5a81ff785665 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1730,6 +1730,9 @@ static bool rb_meta_init(struct trace_buffer *buffer)
 	bmeta->total_size = total_size;
 	bmeta->buffers_offset = (void *)ptr - (void *)bmeta;
 
+	/* Zero out the scatch pad */
+	memset((void *)bmeta + sizeof(*bmeta), 0, PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(*bmeta));
+
 	return false;
 }
 
@@ -2532,6 +2535,16 @@ bool ring_buffer_last_boot_delta(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned long *kas
 	return true;
 }
 
+void *ring_buffer_meta_scratch(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned int *size)
+{
+	if (!buffer || !buffer->meta)
+		return NULL;
+
+	*size = PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(*buffer->meta);
+
+	return (void *)buffer->meta + sizeof(*buffer->meta);
+}
+
 /**
  * ring_buffer_free - free a ring buffer.
  * @buffer: the buffer to free.
-- 
2.45.2