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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Subject: [for-next][PATCH 1/8] tracing: Fix infinite loop in tracing_read_pipe on overflowed print_trace_line
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 09:01:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221214140208.571914729@goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20221214140133.608431204@goodmis.org

From: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>

print_trace_line may overflow seq_file buffer. If the event is not
consumed, the while loop keeps peeking this event, causing a infinite loop.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221129113009.182425-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 088b1e427dbba ("ftrace: pipe fixes")
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 664619b3f1e1..548890c7c0f5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -6802,7 +6802,20 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 
 		ret = print_trace_line(iter);
 		if (ret == TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE) {
-			/* don't print partial lines */
+			/*
+			 * If one print_trace_line() fills entire trace_seq in one shot,
+			 * trace_seq_to_user() will returns -EBUSY because save_len == 0,
+			 * In this case, we need to consume it, otherwise, loop will peek
+			 * this event next time, resulting in an infinite loop.
+			 */
+			if (save_len == 0) {
+				iter->seq.full = 0;
+				trace_seq_puts(&iter->seq, "[LINE TOO BIG]\n");
+				trace_consume(iter);
+				break;
+			}
+
+			/* In other cases, don't print partial lines */
 			iter->seq.seq.len = save_len;
 			break;
 		}
-- 
2.35.1



  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-14 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-14 14:01 [for-next][PATCH 0/8] tracing: Last minute fixes for 6.2 Steven Rostedt
2022-12-14 14:01 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2022-12-14 14:01 ` [for-next][PATCH 2/8] x86/mm/kmmio: Remove redundant preempt_disable() Steven Rostedt
2022-12-14 14:01 ` [for-next][PATCH 3/8] tracing: Have trigger filter parsing errors show up in error_log Steven Rostedt
2022-12-14 14:01 ` [for-next][PATCH 4/8] tracing: Remove pointer (asterisk) and brackets from cpumask_t field Steven Rostedt
2022-12-14 14:01 ` [for-next][PATCH 5/8] tracing: Do not synchronize freeing of trigger filter on boot up Steven Rostedt
2022-12-14 14:01 ` [for-next][PATCH 6/8] ftrace: Prevent RCU stall on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels Steven Rostedt
2022-12-14 15:53   ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-12-14 16:15     ` Steven Rostedt
2022-12-14 16:17       ` Steven Rostedt
2022-12-14 16:23       ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-12-14 14:01 ` [for-next][PATCH 7/8] tracing: Improve panic/die notifiers Steven Rostedt
2022-12-14 14:01 ` [for-next][PATCH 8/8] tracing: Fix cpumask() example typo Steven Rostedt

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