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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	<stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] tracing: Protect tracer flags with trace_types_lock
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:33:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130314214028.916737591@goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20130314213303.302538352@goodmis.org

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From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from
synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the
tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to
be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted.

Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing
to also protect the flags being set.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 53df283..00daf5f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -2916,6 +2916,8 @@ static int trace_set_options(char *option)
 		cmp += 2;
 	}
 
+	mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
+
 	for (i = 0; trace_options[i]; i++) {
 		if (strcmp(cmp, trace_options[i]) == 0) {
 			set_tracer_flags(1 << i, !neg);
@@ -2924,11 +2926,10 @@ static int trace_set_options(char *option)
 	}
 
 	/* If no option could be set, test the specific tracer options */
-	if (!trace_options[i]) {
-		mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
+	if (!trace_options[i])
 		ret = set_tracer_option(current_trace, cmp, neg);
-		mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
-	}
+
+	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -4781,7 +4782,10 @@ trace_options_core_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt,
 
 	if (val != 0 && val != 1)
 		return -EINVAL;
+
+	mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
 	set_tracer_flags(1 << index, val);
+	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
 
 	*ppos += cnt;
 
-- 
1.7.10.4



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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-14 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14 21:33 [PATCH 0/3] [GIT PULL][3.9] tracing: Fixes with flags and latency tracers Steven Rostedt
2013-03-14 21:33 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2013-03-14 21:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] tracing: Keep overwrite in sync between regular and snapshot buffers Steven Rostedt
2013-03-14 21:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Prevent buffer overwrite disabled for latency tracers Steven Rostedt
2013-03-15  3:38 ` [PATCH 0/3] [GIT PULL][3.9] tracing: Fixes with flags and " Steven Rostedt

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