linux/kernel
Linus Torvalds c0fe5dcb91 Josef Bacik found a bug in the ring_buffer_poll_wait() where the
condition variable (waiters_pending) was set before being added to
 the poll queue via poll_wait(). This allowed for a small race window
 to happen where an event could come in, check the condition variable
 see it set to true, clear it, and then wake all the waiters. But because
 the waiter set the variable before adding itself to the queue, the
 waker could have cleared the variable after it was set and then miss
 waking it up as it wasn't added to the queue yet.
 
 Discussing this bug, we realized that a memory barrier needed to be added
 too, for the rare case that something polls for a single trace event
 to happen (and just one, no more to come in), and miss the wakeup due
 to memory ordering.  Ideally, a memory barrier needs to be added on the
 writer side too, but as that will kill tracing performance and this is
 for a situation that tracing wasn't even designed for (who traces one
 instance of an event, use a printk instead!), this isn't worth adding the
 barrier. But we can in the future add the barrier for when the buffer
 goes from empty to the first event, as that would cover this case.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.17-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull trace buffer epoll hang fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Josef Bacik found a bug in the ring_buffer_poll_wait() where the
  condition variable (waiters_pending) was set before being added to the
  poll queue via poll_wait().  This allowed for a small race window to
  happen where an event could come in, check the condition variable see
  it set to true, clear it, and then wake all the waiters.  But because
  the waiter set the variable before adding itself to the queue, the
  waker could have cleared the variable after it was set and then miss
  waking it up as it wasn't added to the queue yet.

  Discussing this bug, we realized that a memory barrier needed to be
  added too, for the rare case that something polls for a single trace
  event to happen (and just one, no more to come in), and miss the
  wakeup due to memory ordering.  Ideally, a memory barrier needs to be
  added on the writer side too, but as that will kill tracing
  performance and this is for a situation that tracing wasn't even
  designed for (who traces one instance of an event, use a printk
  instead!), this isn't worth adding the barrier.  But we can in the
  future add the barrier for when the buffer goes from empty to the
  first event, as that would cover this case"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.17-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  trace: Fix epoll hang when we race with new entries
2014-08-27 09:12:36 -07:00
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bpf net: filter: split 'struct sk_filter' into socket and bpf parts 2014-08-02 15:03:58 -07:00
debug kdb: Use ktime_get_ts() 2014-06-12 16:18:45 +02:00
events Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-08-24 16:16:55 -07:00
gcov kernel/gcov/fs.c: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove 2014-08-08 15:57:24 -07:00
irq Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-08-05 17:38:45 -07:00
locking arch, locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax() 2014-07-17 12:32:47 +02:00
power Merge branches 'pm-sleep', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-cpuidle' 2014-08-11 23:19:48 +02:00
printk printk: Add function to return log buffer address and size 2014-08-13 15:13:44 +10:00
rcu Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-08-04 15:55:08 -07:00
sched Merge branches 'pm-sleep', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-cpuidle' 2014-08-11 23:19:48 +02:00
time timekeeping: Another fix to the VSYSCALL_OLD update_vsyscall 2014-08-14 11:04:11 -06:00
trace trace: Fix epoll hang when we race with new entries 2014-08-25 20:18:11 -04:00
.gitignore
acct.c kernel/acct.c: fix coding style warnings and errors 2014-08-08 15:57:27 -07:00
async.c
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
audit.c CAPABILITIES: remove undefined caps from all processes 2014-07-24 21:53:47 +10:00
audit.h
auditfilter.c kernel/auditfilter.c: replace count*size kmalloc by kcalloc 2014-08-06 18:01:12 -07:00
auditsc.c auditsc: audit_krule mask accesses need bounds checking 2014-06-10 08:44:40 -07:00
backtracetest.c kernel/backtracetest.c: replace no level printk by pr_info() 2014-06-04 16:54:14 -07:00
bounds.c page-cgroup: get rid of NR_PCG_FLAGS 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
capability.c CAPABILITIES: remove undefined caps from all processes 2014-07-24 21:53:47 +10:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: rename cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes to ->legacy_cftypes 2014-07-15 11:05:09 -04:00
cgroup.c Merge branch 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2014-08-04 10:11:28 -07:00
compat.c kernel/compat.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof 2014-06-04 16:54:19 -07:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c x86/kprobes: Fix build errors and blacklist context_track_user 2014-06-14 09:07:44 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c sched: Rework check_for_tasks() 2014-07-05 11:17:45 +02:00
cpuset.c Merge branch 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2014-08-04 10:11:28 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c delayacct: Remove braindamaged type conversions 2014-07-23 10:18:06 -07:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c kernel/exec_domain.c: code clean-up 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
exit.c kernel/exit.c: fix coding style warnings and errors 2014-08-08 15:57:22 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c seccomp: Replace BUG(!spin_is_locked()) with assert_spin_lock 2014-08-11 13:29:12 -07:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c futex: Simplify futex_lock_pi_atomic() and make it more robust 2014-06-21 22:26:24 +02:00
groups.c kernel/groups.c: remove return value of set_groups 2014-04-03 16:21:05 -07:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtouint 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
irq_work.c irq_work: Remove BUG_ON in irq_work_run() 2014-07-05 11:17:26 +02:00
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c kernel/kallsyms.c: fix %pB when there's no symbol at the address 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking/rwsem: Add CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER 2014-07-16 14:57:13 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: verify the signature of signed PE bzImage 2014-08-08 15:57:33 -07:00
kmod.c signals: change wait_for_helper() to use kernel_sigaction() 2014-06-06 16:08:12 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Skip kretprobe hit in NMI context to avoid deadlock 2014-08-08 10:38:04 +02:00
ksysfs.c kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional. 2014-04-25 12:00:49 -07:00
kthread.c kthread_work: wake up worker only when the worker is idle 2014-07-28 14:07:52 -04:00
latencytop.c kernel/latencytop.c: convert seq_printf to seq_puts 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
Makefile bin2c: move bin2c in scripts/basic 2014-08-08 15:57:32 -07:00
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c module: Clean up ro/nx after early module load failures 2014-08-16 04:47:00 +09:30
notifier.c kprobes, notifier: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro in notifier 2014-04-24 10:26:39 +02:00
nsproxy.c namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy 2014-07-29 18:08:50 -07:00
padata.c
panic.c panic: add TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP 2014-08-08 15:57:24 -07:00
params.c Add module param type 'ullong' 2014-07-17 22:07:37 +02:00
pid_namespace.c pid_namespace: pidns_get() should check task_active_pid_ns() != NULL 2014-04-02 16:20:21 -07:00
pid.c
profile.c kernel/profile.c: use static const char instead of static char 2014-06-06 16:08:13 -07:00
ptrace.c sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions 2014-07-16 15:10:39 +02:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtoint 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
relay.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
res_counter.c kernel/res_counter.c: replace simple_strtoull by kstrtoull 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
resource.c resource: provide new functions to walk through resources 2014-08-08 15:57:32 -07:00
seccomp.c seccomp: Replace BUG(!spin_is_locked()) with assert_spin_lock 2014-08-11 13:29:12 -07:00
signal.c Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
smp.c kernel/smp.c:on_each_cpu_cond(): fix warning in fallback path 2014-08-06 18:01:22 -07:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2014-05-22 11:36:10 +02:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c kernel/stop_machine.c: kernel-doc warning fix 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
sys_ni.c kexec: new syscall kexec_file_load() declaration 2014-08-08 15:57:32 -07:00
sys.c sched: move no_new_privs into new atomic flags 2014-07-18 12:13:38 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c ipv6: Allow accepting RA from local IP addresses. 2014-07-01 12:16:24 -07:00
sysctl.c mm, hugetlb: remove hugetlb_zero and hugetlb_infinity 2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
system_certificates.S
system_keyring.c KEYS: validate certificate trust only with builtin keys 2014-07-17 09:35:17 -04:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c kernel/test_kprobes.c: use current logging functions 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
torture.c torture: Avoid format string leak to thead name 2014-07-07 10:12:56 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracing: syscall_regfunc() should not skip kernel threads 2014-06-21 00:15:26 -04:00
tsacct.c sched: Make task->start_time nanoseconds based 2014-07-23 10:18:05 -07:00
uid16.c
up.c
user_namespace.c proc: constify seq_operations 2014-08-08 15:57:22 -07:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c kernel/user.c: drop unused field 'files' from user_struct 2014-06-04 16:54:16 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c sysctl: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2014-06-06 16:08:16 -07:00
utsname.c namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy 2014-07-29 18:08:50 -07:00
watchdog.c panic: add TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP 2014-08-08 15:57:24 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h workqueue: rename manager_mutex to attach_mutex 2014-05-20 10:59:32 -04:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-08-04 10:09:27 -07:00