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ring-buffer: fix deadlock from reader_lock in read_start
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Impact: deadlock fix in ring_buffer_read_start

The ring_buffer_iter_reset was called from ring_buffer_read_start
where both grabbed the reader_lock.

This patch separates out the internals of ring_buffer_iter_reset
to its own function so that both APIs may grab the reader_lock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored and Ingo Molnar committed Nov 12, 2008
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29 changes: 17 additions & 12 deletions kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
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Expand Up @@ -1475,19 +1475,9 @@ unsigned long ring_buffer_overruns(struct ring_buffer *buffer)
return overruns;
}

/**
* ring_buffer_iter_reset - reset an iterator
* @iter: The iterator to reset
*
* Resets the iterator, so that it will start from the beginning
* again.
*/
void ring_buffer_iter_reset(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter)
static void rb_iter_reset(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter)
{
struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer = iter->cpu_buffer;
unsigned long flags;

spin_lock_irqsave(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags);

/* Iterator usage is expected to have record disabled */
if (list_empty(&cpu_buffer->reader_page->list)) {
Expand All @@ -1501,7 +1491,22 @@ void ring_buffer_iter_reset(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter)
iter->read_stamp = cpu_buffer->read_stamp;
else
iter->read_stamp = iter->head_page->time_stamp;
}

/**
* ring_buffer_iter_reset - reset an iterator
* @iter: The iterator to reset
*
* Resets the iterator, so that it will start from the beginning
* again.
*/
void ring_buffer_iter_reset(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter)
{
struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer = iter->cpu_buffer;
unsigned long flags;

spin_lock_irqsave(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags);
rb_iter_reset(iter);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags);
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1957,7 +1962,7 @@ ring_buffer_read_start(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)

spin_lock_irqsave(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags);
__raw_spin_lock(&cpu_buffer->lock);
ring_buffer_iter_reset(iter);
rb_iter_reset(iter);
__raw_spin_unlock(&cpu_buffer->lock);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags);

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