[PATCH 1/2] tracing: Move mutex to protect against resetting of seq data

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

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

The iter->seq can be reset outside the protection of the mutex. So can
reading of user data. Move the mutex up to the beginning of the function.

Fixes: d7350c3f45694 ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.30+
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 8a4bd6b68a0b..8fb4847b0450 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4890,19 +4890,20 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 	struct trace_iterator *iter = filp->private_data;
 	ssize_t sret;
 
-	/* return any leftover data */
-	sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt);
-	if (sret != -EBUSY)
-		return sret;
-
-	trace_seq_init(&iter->seq);
-
 	/*
 	 * Avoid more than one consumer on a single file descriptor
 	 * This is just a matter of traces coherency, the ring buffer itself
 	 * is protected.
 	 */
 	mutex_lock(&iter->mutex);
+
+	/* return any leftover data */
+	sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt);
+	if (sret != -EBUSY)
+		goto out;
+
+	trace_seq_init(&iter->seq);
+
 	if (iter->trace->read) {
 		sret = iter->trace->read(iter, filp, ubuf, cnt, ppos);
 		if (sret)
-- 
2.8.1