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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [for-next][PATCH 2/6] tracing: Add guard(ring_buffer_nest)
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 12:27:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250802162829.198364711@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20250802162734.529626660@kernel.org

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Some calls to the tracing ring buffer can happen when the ring buffer is
already being written to by the same context (for example, a
trace_printk() in between a ring_buffer_lock_reserve() and a
ring_buffer_unlock_commit()).

In order to not trigger the recursion detection, these functions use
ring_buffer_nest_start() and ring_buffer_nest_end(). Create a guard() for
these functions so that their use cases can be simplified and not need to
use goto for the release.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250801203857.710501021@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 include/linux/ring_buffer.h       |  3 ++
 kernel/trace/trace.c              | 69 +++++++++++++------------------
 kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c |  6 +--
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
index cd7f0ae26615..8253cb69540c 100644
--- a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
+++ b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ int ring_buffer_write(struct trace_buffer *buffer,
 void ring_buffer_nest_start(struct trace_buffer *buffer);
 void ring_buffer_nest_end(struct trace_buffer *buffer);
 
+DEFINE_GUARD(ring_buffer_nest, struct trace_buffer *,
+	     ring_buffer_nest_start(_T), ring_buffer_nest_end(_T))
+
 struct ring_buffer_event *
 ring_buffer_peek(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu, u64 *ts,
 		 unsigned long *lost_events);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 0ec9cab9a812..332487179e1d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1160,13 +1160,11 @@ int __trace_array_puts(struct trace_array *tr, unsigned long ip,
 
 	trace_ctx = tracing_gen_ctx();
 	buffer = tr->array_buffer.buffer;
-	ring_buffer_nest_start(buffer);
+	guard(ring_buffer_nest)(buffer);
 	event = __trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_PRINT, alloc,
 					    trace_ctx);
-	if (!event) {
-		size = 0;
-		goto out;
-	}
+	if (!event)
+		return 0;
 
 	entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
 	entry->ip = ip;
@@ -1182,8 +1180,6 @@ int __trace_array_puts(struct trace_array *tr, unsigned long ip,
 
 	__buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
 	ftrace_trace_stack(tr, buffer, trace_ctx, 4, NULL);
- out:
-	ring_buffer_nest_end(buffer);
 	return size;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__trace_array_puts);
@@ -1213,7 +1209,6 @@ int __trace_bputs(unsigned long ip, const char *str)
 	struct bputs_entry *entry;
 	unsigned int trace_ctx;
 	int size = sizeof(struct bputs_entry);
-	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (!printk_binsafe(tr))
 		return __trace_puts(ip, str, strlen(str));
@@ -1227,11 +1222,11 @@ int __trace_bputs(unsigned long ip, const char *str)
 	trace_ctx = tracing_gen_ctx();
 	buffer = tr->array_buffer.buffer;
 
-	ring_buffer_nest_start(buffer);
+	guard(ring_buffer_nest)(buffer);
 	event = __trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_BPUTS, size,
 					    trace_ctx);
 	if (!event)
-		goto out;
+		return 0;
 
 	entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
 	entry->ip			= ip;
@@ -1240,10 +1235,7 @@ int __trace_bputs(unsigned long ip, const char *str)
 	__buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
 	ftrace_trace_stack(tr, buffer, trace_ctx, 4, NULL);
 
-	ret = 1;
- out:
-	ring_buffer_nest_end(buffer);
-	return ret;
+	return 1;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__trace_bputs);
 
@@ -3397,21 +3389,19 @@ int trace_vbprintk(unsigned long ip, const char *fmt, va_list args)
 
 	size = sizeof(*entry) + sizeof(u32) * len;
 	buffer = tr->array_buffer.buffer;
-	ring_buffer_nest_start(buffer);
-	event = __trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_BPRINT, size,
-					    trace_ctx);
-	if (!event)
-		goto out;
-	entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
-	entry->ip			= ip;
-	entry->fmt			= fmt;
-
-	memcpy(entry->buf, tbuffer, sizeof(u32) * len);
-	__buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
-	ftrace_trace_stack(tr, buffer, trace_ctx, 6, NULL);
+	scoped_guard(ring_buffer_nest, buffer) {
+		event = __trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_BPRINT, size,
+						    trace_ctx);
+		if (!event)
+			goto out_put;
+		entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
+		entry->ip			= ip;
+		entry->fmt			= fmt;
 
-out:
-	ring_buffer_nest_end(buffer);
+		memcpy(entry->buf, tbuffer, sizeof(u32) * len);
+		__buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
+		ftrace_trace_stack(tr, buffer, trace_ctx, 6, NULL);
+	}
 out_put:
 	put_trace_buf();
 
@@ -3452,20 +3442,19 @@ int __trace_array_vprintk(struct trace_buffer *buffer,
 	len = vscnprintf(tbuffer, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args);
 
 	size = sizeof(*entry) + len + 1;
-	ring_buffer_nest_start(buffer);
-	event = __trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_PRINT, size,
-					    trace_ctx);
-	if (!event)
-		goto out;
-	entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
-	entry->ip = ip;
-
-	memcpy(&entry->buf, tbuffer, len + 1);
-	__buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
-	ftrace_trace_stack(printk_trace, buffer, trace_ctx, 6, NULL);
+	scoped_guard(ring_buffer_nest, buffer) {
+		event = __trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_PRINT, size,
+						    trace_ctx);
+		if (!event)
+			goto out;
+		entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
+		entry->ip = ip;
 
+		memcpy(&entry->buf, tbuffer, len + 1);
+		__buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
+		ftrace_trace_stack(printk_trace, buffer, trace_ctx, 6, NULL);
+	}
 out:
-	ring_buffer_nest_end(buffer);
 	put_trace_buf();
 
 out_nobuffer:
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
index 33cfbd4ed76d..f24ee61f8884 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
@@ -536,12 +536,12 @@ static notrace void trace_event_raw_event_synth(void *__data,
 	 * is being performed within another event.
 	 */
 	buffer = trace_file->tr->array_buffer.buffer;
-	ring_buffer_nest_start(buffer);
+	guard(ring_buffer_nest)(buffer);
 
 	entry = trace_event_buffer_reserve(&fbuffer, trace_file,
 					   sizeof(*entry) + fields_size);
 	if (!entry)
-		goto out;
+		return;
 
 	for (i = 0, n_u64 = 0; i < event->n_fields; i++) {
 		val_idx = var_ref_idx[i];
@@ -584,8 +584,6 @@ static notrace void trace_event_raw_event_synth(void *__data,
 	}
 
 	trace_event_buffer_commit(&fbuffer);
-out:
-	ring_buffer_nest_end(buffer);
 }
 
 static void free_synth_event_print_fmt(struct trace_event_call *call)
-- 
2.47.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-02 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-02 16:27 [for-next][PATCH 0/6] tracing: Final clean ups for v6.17 Steven Rostedt
2025-08-02 16:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 1/6] tracing: Remove unneeded goto out logic Steven Rostedt
2025-08-02 16:27 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2025-08-02 16:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 3/6] tracing: Add guard() around locks and mutexes in trace.c Steven Rostedt
2025-08-02 16:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 4/6] tracing: Use __free(kfree) in trace.c to remove gotos Steven Rostedt
2025-08-02 16:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 5/6] ring-buffer: Convert ring_buffer_write() to use guard(preempt_notrace) Steven Rostedt
2025-08-02 16:27 ` [for-next][PATCH 6/6] tracing: Have unsigned int function args displayed as hexadecimal Steven Rostedt
2025-08-02 16:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 0/6] tracing: Final clean ups for v6.17 Steven Rostedt

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