FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tracing: Add ioctl() to force ring buffer waiters to wake up" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tracing: Add ioctl() to force ring buffer waiters to wake up" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

Possible dependencies:

01b2a5217173 ("tracing: Add ioctl() to force ring buffer waiters to wake up")

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 01b2a52171735c6eea80ee2f355f32bea6c41418 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:50:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Add ioctl() to force ring buffer waiters to wake up

If a process is waiting on the ring buffer for data, there currently isn't
a clean way to force it to wake up. Add an ioctl call that will force any
tasks that are waiting on the trace_pipe_raw file to wake up.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220929095029.117f913f@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: e30f53aad2202 ("tracing: Do not busy wait in buffer splice")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index e101b0764b39..58afc83afc9d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -8349,12 +8349,34 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/* An ioctl call with cmd 0 to the ring buffer file will wake up all waiters */
+static long tracing_buffers_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
+{
+	struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = file->private_data;
+	struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
+
+	if (cmd)
+		return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+
+	mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
+
+	iter->wait_index++;
+	/* Make sure the waiters see the new wait_index */
+	smp_wmb();
+
+	ring_buffer_wake_waiters(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static const struct file_operations tracing_buffers_fops = {
 	.open		= tracing_buffers_open,
 	.read		= tracing_buffers_read,
 	.poll		= tracing_buffers_poll,
 	.release	= tracing_buffers_release,
 	.splice_read	= tracing_buffers_splice_read,
+	.unlocked_ioctl = tracing_buffers_ioctl,
 	.llseek		= no_llseek,
 };