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tracing: Do not risk busy looping in buffer splice
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If the read loop in trace_buffers_splice_read() keeps failing due to
memory allocation failures without reading even a single page then this
function will keep busy looping.

Remove the risk for that by exiting the function if memory allocation
failures are seen.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415309167-2373-2-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Rabin Vincent authored and Steven Rostedt committed Nov 10, 2014
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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions kernel/trace/trace.c
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Expand Up @@ -5494,7 +5494,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
};
struct buffer_ref *ref;
int entries, size, i;
ssize_t ret;
ssize_t ret = 0;

mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);

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int r;

ref = kzalloc(sizeof(*ref), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ref)
if (!ref) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
break;
}

ref->ref = 1;
ref->buffer = iter->trace_buffer->buffer;
ref->page = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(ref->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
if (!ref->page) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
kfree(ref);
break;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -5576,6 +5579,9 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,

/* did we read anything? */
if (!spd.nr_pages) {
if (ret)
goto out;

if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) || (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK)) {
ret = -EAGAIN;
goto out;
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