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authorYabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>2019-05-17 13:52:31 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-05-24 09:00:10 +0200
commit1b038c6e05ff70a1e66e3e571c2e6106bdb75f53 (patch)
treeb9ca314ab80b10593d6392ea7946b5db8c648769 /kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
parent23e3983a466cd540ffdd2bbc6e0c51e31934f941 (diff)
perf/ring_buffer: Fix exposing a temporarily decreased data_head
In perf_output_put_handle(), an IRQ/NMI can happen in below location and write records to the same ring buffer: ... local_dec_and_test(&rb->nest) ... <-- an IRQ/NMI can happen here rb->user_page->data_head = head; ... In this case, a value A is written to data_head in the IRQ, then a value B is written to data_head after the IRQ. And A > B. As a result, data_head is temporarily decreased from A to B. And a reader may see data_head < data_tail if it read the buffer frequently enough, which creates unexpected behaviors. This can be fixed by moving dec(&rb->nest) to after updating data_head, which prevents the IRQ/NMI above from updating data_head. [ Split up by peterz. ] Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com Fixes: ef60777c9abd ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.224478157@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/ring_buffer.c24
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 674b35383491..009467a60578 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -51,11 +51,18 @@ again:
head = local_read(&rb->head);
/*
- * IRQ/NMI can happen here, which means we can miss a head update.
+ * IRQ/NMI can happen here and advance @rb->head, causing our
+ * load above to be stale.
*/
- if (!local_dec_and_test(&rb->nest))
+ /*
+ * If this isn't the outermost nesting, we don't have to update
+ * @rb->user_page->data_head.
+ */
+ if (local_read(&rb->nest) > 1) {
+ local_dec(&rb->nest);
goto out;
+ }
/*
* Since the mmap() consumer (userspace) can run on a different CPU:
@@ -87,9 +94,18 @@ again:
rb->user_page->data_head = head;
/*
- * Now check if we missed an update -- rely on previous implied
- * compiler barriers to force a re-read.
+ * We must publish the head before decrementing the nest count,
+ * otherwise an IRQ/NMI can publish a more recent head value and our
+ * write will (temporarily) publish a stale value.
+ */
+ barrier();
+ local_set(&rb->nest, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure we decrement @rb->nest before we validate the @rb->head.
+ * Otherwise we cannot be sure we caught the 'last' nested update.
*/
+ barrier();
if (unlikely(head != local_read(&rb->head))) {
local_inc(&rb->nest);
goto again;