[PATCH 6.12 21/70] blktrace: fix __this_cpu_read/write in preemptible context

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13T16:12:44Z

From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>

[ Upstream commit da46b5dfef48658d03347cda21532bcdbb521e67 ]

tracing_record_cmdline() internally uses __this_cpu_read() and
__this_cpu_write() on the per-CPU variable trace_cmdline_save, and
trace_save_cmdline() explicitly asserts preemption is disabled via
lockdep_assert_preemption_disabled(). These operations are only safe
when preemption is off, as they were designed to be called from the
scheduler context (probe_wakeup_sched_switch() / probe_wakeup()).

__blk_add_trace() was calling tracing_record_cmdline(current) early in
the blk_tracer path, before ring buffer reservation, from process
context where preemption is fully enabled. This triggers the following
using blktests/blktrace/002:

blktrace/002 (blktrace ftrace corruption with sysfs trace) [failed]
runtime 0.367s ... 0.437s
something found in dmesg:
[ 81.211018] run blktests blktrace/002 at 2026-02-25 22:24:33
[ 81.239580] null_blk: disk nullb1 created
[ 81.357294] BUG: using __this_cpu_read() in preemptible [00000000] code: dd/2516
[ 81.362842] caller is tracing_record_cmdline+0x10/0x40
[ 81.362872] CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 2516 Comm: dd Tainted: G N 7.0.0-rc1lblk+ #84 PREEMPT(full)
[ 81.362877] Tainted: [N]=TEST
[ 81.362878] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 81.362881] Call Trace:
[ 81.362884] <TASK>
[ 81.362886] dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xb0
...
(See '/mnt/sda/blktests/results/nodev/blktrace/002.dmesg' for the entire message)

[ 81.211018] run blktests blktrace/002 at 2026-02-25 22:24:33
[ 81.239580] null_blk: disk nullb1 created
[ 81.357294] BUG: using __this_cpu_read() in preemptible [00000000] code: dd/2516
[ 81.362842] caller is tracing_record_cmdline+0x10/0x40
[ 81.362872] CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 2516 Comm: dd Tainted: G N 7.0.0-rc1lblk+ #84 PREEMPT(full)
[ 81.362877] Tainted: [N]=TEST
[ 81.362878] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 81.362881] Call Trace:
[ 81.362884] <TASK>
[ 81.362886] dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xb0
[ 81.362895] check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xe0
[ 81.362902] tracing_record_cmdline+0x10/0x40
[ 81.362923] __blk_add_trace+0x307/0x5d0
[ 81.362934] ? lock_acquire+0xe0/0x300
[ 81.362940] ? iov_iter_extract_pages+0x101/0xa30
[ 81.362959] blk_add_trace_bio+0x106/0x1e0
[ 81.362968] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x24b/0x3a0
[ 81.362979] ? lockdep_init_map_type+0x58/0x260
[ 81.362988] submit_bio_wait+0x56/0x90
[ 81.363009] __blkdev_direct_IO_simple+0x16c/0x250
[ 81.363026] ? __pfx_submit_bio_wait_endio+0x10/0x10
[ 81.363038] ? rcu_read_lock_any_held+0x73/0xa0
[ 81.363051] blkdev_read_iter+0xc1/0x140
[ 81.363059] vfs_read+0x20b/0x330
[ 81.363083] ksys_read+0x67/0xe0
[ 81.363090] do_syscall_64+0xbf/0xf00
[ 81.363102] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 81.363106] RIP: 0033:0x7f281906029d
[ 81.363111] Code: 31 c0 e9 c6 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 66 63 0a 00 e8 59 ff 01 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 80 3d 41 33 0e 00 00 74 17 31 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 5b c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec
[ 81.363113] RSP: 002b:00007ffca127dd48 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
[ 81.363120] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f281906029d
[ 81.363122] RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 0000559f8bfae000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 81.363123] RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 0000002863a10a81 R09: 00007f281915f000
[ 81.363124] R10: 00007f2818f77b60 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000559f8bfae000
[ 81.363126] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000000000000a
[ 81.363142] </TASK>

The same BUG fires from blk_add_trace_plug(), blk_add_trace_unplug(),
and blk_add_trace_rq() paths as well.

The purpose of tracing_record_cmdline() is to cache the task->comm for
a given PID so that the trace can later resolve it. It is only
meaningful when a trace event is actually being recorded. Ring buffer
reservation via ring_buffer_lock_reserve() disables preemption, and
preemption remains disabled until the event is committed :-

__blk_add_trace()
__trace_buffer_lock_reserve()
__trace_buffer_lock_reserve()
ring_buffer_lock_reserve()
preempt_disable_notrace(); <---

With this fix blktests for blktrace pass:

blktests (master) # ./check blktrace
blktrace/001 (blktrace zone management command tracing) [passed]
runtime 3.650s ... 3.647s
blktrace/002 (blktrace ftrace corruption with sysfs trace) [passed]
runtime 0.411s ... 0.384s

Fixes: 7ffbd48d5cab ("tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred")
Reported-by: Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Rajani Kantha <681739313@139.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 8fd292d34d898..6cb5772e6aa92 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -251,8 +251,6 @@ static void __blk_add_trace(struct blk_trace *bt, sector_t sector, int bytes,
cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();

if (blk_tracer) {
- tracing_record_cmdline(current);
-
buffer = blk_tr->array_buffer.buffer;
trace_ctx = tracing_gen_ctx_flags(0);
event = trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_BLK,
@@ -260,6 +258,8 @@ static void __blk_add_trace(struct blk_trace *bt, sector_t sector, int bytes,
trace_ctx);
if (!event)
return;
+
+ tracing_record_cmdline(current);
t = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
goto record_it;
}
--
2.53.0