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Subject[PATCH] tracing: Fix buffer_ref pipe ops
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This fixes multiple issues in buffer_pipe_buf_ops:

- The ->steal() handler must not return zero unless the pipe buffer has
the only reference to the page. But generic_pipe_buf_steal() assumes
that every reference to the pipe is tracked by the page's refcount,
which isn't true for these buffers - buffer_pipe_buf_get(), which
duplicates a buffer, doesn't touch the page's refcount.
Fix it by using generic_pipe_buf_nosteal(), which refuses every
attempted theft. It should be easy to actually support ->steal, but the
only current users of pipe_buf_steal() are the virtio console and FUSE,
and they also only use it as an optimization. So it's probably not worth
the effort.
- The ->get() and ->release() handlers can be invoked concurrently on pipe
buffers backed by the same struct buffer_ref. Make them safe against
concurrency by using refcount_t.
- The pointers stored in ->private were only zeroed out when the last
reference to the buffer_ref was dropped. As far as I know, this
shouldn't be necessary anyway, but if we do it, let's always do it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.11
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
---
Completely untested (apart from compiling it). I don't really know
anything about how the tracing subsystem works.

fs/splice.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h | 1 +
kernel/trace/trace.c | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 3ee7e82df48f..e75807380caa 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -330,8 +330,8 @@ const struct pipe_buf_operations default_pipe_buf_ops = {
.get = generic_pipe_buf_get,
};

-static int generic_pipe_buf_nosteal(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
- struct pipe_buffer *buf)
+int generic_pipe_buf_nosteal(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
+ struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
return 1;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
index 787d224ff43e..a830e9a00eb9 100644
--- a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
+++ b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ void free_pipe_info(struct pipe_inode_info *);
void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
int generic_pipe_buf_confirm(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
int generic_pipe_buf_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
+int generic_pipe_buf_nosteal(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
void generic_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
void pipe_buf_mark_unmergeable(struct pipe_buffer *buf);

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 21153e64bf1c..0cfa13a60086 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -7025,19 +7025,23 @@ struct buffer_ref {
struct ring_buffer *buffer;
void *page;
int cpu;
- int ref;
+ refcount_t refcount;
};

+static void buffer_ref_release(struct buffer_ref *ref)
+{
+ if (!refcount_dec_and_test(&ref->refcount))
+ return;
+ ring_buffer_free_read_page(ref->buffer, ref->cpu, ref->page);
+ kfree(ref);
+}
+
static void buffer_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
struct buffer_ref *ref = (struct buffer_ref *)buf->private;

- if (--ref->ref)
- return;
-
- ring_buffer_free_read_page(ref->buffer, ref->cpu, ref->page);
- kfree(ref);
+ buffer_ref_release(ref);
buf->private = 0;
}

@@ -7046,14 +7050,14 @@ static void buffer_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
{
struct buffer_ref *ref = (struct buffer_ref *)buf->private;

- ref->ref++;
+ refcount_inc(&ref->refcount);
}

/* Pipe buffer operations for a buffer. */
static const struct pipe_buf_operations buffer_pipe_buf_ops = {
.confirm = generic_pipe_buf_confirm,
.release = buffer_pipe_buf_release,
- .steal = generic_pipe_buf_steal,
+ .steal = generic_pipe_buf_nosteal,
.get = buffer_pipe_buf_get,
};

@@ -7066,11 +7070,7 @@ static void buffer_spd_release(struct splice_pipe_desc *spd, unsigned int i)
struct buffer_ref *ref =
(struct buffer_ref *)spd->partial[i].private;

- if (--ref->ref)
- return;
-
- ring_buffer_free_read_page(ref->buffer, ref->cpu, ref->page);
- kfree(ref);
+ buffer_ref_release(ref);
spd->partial[i].private = 0;
}

@@ -7125,7 +7125,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
break;
}

- ref->ref = 1;
+ refcount_set(&ref->refcount, 1);
ref->buffer = iter->trace_buffer->buffer;
ref->page = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(ref->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
if (IS_ERR(ref->page)) {
--
2.21.0.392.gf8f6787159e-goog
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