Re: WARNING in tracepoint_probe_register_prio

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Sat Nov 04 2017 - 13:54:36 EST


On 11/04/2017 11:26 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 10/31/2017 05:14 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:30:41 -0600
>> Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> This code dates back to:
>>>
>>> commit c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199
>>> Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Fri Jan 23 12:06:27 2009 -0200
>>>
>>> blktrace: add ftrace plugin
>>>
>>> so not really a recent regression :-)
>>
>> How many people run two instances of blktrace? ;->
>> Love fuzzers!
>
> The core code is fine, the bug is actually in sg which added
> hooks for both doing setup/teardown and start/stop of tracing.
> This was done bypassing the internal locking...
>
> The below should do the trick. It's a fix for this commit:
>
> commit 6da127ad0918f93ea93678dad62ce15ffed18797
> Author: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Jan 11 10:09:43 2008 +0100
>
> blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices

Forgot the critical bit, updated.


diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 45a3928544ce..206e0e2ace53 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ static struct tracer_flags blk_tracer_flags = {
};

/* Global reference count of probes */
-static atomic_t blk_probes_ref = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(blk_probe_mutex);
+static int blk_probes_ref;

static void blk_register_tracepoints(void);
static void blk_unregister_tracepoints(void);
@@ -329,14 +330,29 @@ static void blk_trace_free(struct blk_trace *bt)
kfree(bt);
}

+static void get_probe_ref(void)
+{
+ mutex_lock(&blk_probe_mutex);
+ if (++blk_probes_ref == 1)
+ blk_register_tracepoints();
+ mutex_unlock(&blk_probe_mutex);
+}
+
+static void put_probe_ref(void)
+{
+ mutex_lock(&blk_probe_mutex);
+ if (!--blk_probes_ref)
+ blk_unregister_tracepoints();
+ mutex_unlock(&blk_probe_mutex);
+}
+
static void blk_trace_cleanup(struct blk_trace *bt)
{
blk_trace_free(bt);
- if (atomic_dec_and_test(&blk_probes_ref))
- blk_unregister_tracepoints();
+ put_probe_ref();
}

-int blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
+static int __blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
{
struct blk_trace *bt;

@@ -349,6 +365,17 @@ int blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)

return 0;
}
+
+int blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+ ret = __blk_trace_remove(q);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
+ return ret;
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_remove);

static ssize_t blk_dropped_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buffer,
@@ -538,8 +565,7 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
if (cmpxchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL, bt))
goto err;

- if (atomic_inc_return(&blk_probes_ref) == 1)
- blk_register_tracepoints();
+ get_probe_ref();

ret = 0;
err:
@@ -550,9 +576,8 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
return ret;
}

-int blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
- struct block_device *bdev,
- char __user *arg)
+static int __blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
+ struct block_device *bdev, char __user *arg)
{
struct blk_user_trace_setup buts;
int ret;
@@ -571,6 +596,19 @@ int blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
}
return 0;
}
+
+int blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
+ struct block_device *bdev,
+ char __user *arg)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+ ret = __blk_trace_setup(q, name, dev, bdev, arg);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
+ return ret;
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_setup);

#if defined(CONFIG_COMPAT) && defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
@@ -607,7 +645,7 @@ static int compat_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name,
}
#endif

-int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
+static int __blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
{
int ret;
struct blk_trace *bt = q->blk_trace;
@@ -646,6 +684,17 @@ int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)

return ret;
}
+
+int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+ ret = __blk_trace_startstop(q, start);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
+ return ret;
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_startstop);

/*
@@ -676,7 +725,7 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
switch (cmd) {
case BLKTRACESETUP:
bdevname(bdev, b);
- ret = blk_trace_setup(q, b, bdev->bd_dev, bdev, arg);
+ ret = __blk_trace_setup(q, b, bdev->bd_dev, bdev, arg);
break;
#if defined(CONFIG_COMPAT) && defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
case BLKTRACESETUP32:
@@ -687,10 +736,10 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
case BLKTRACESTART:
start = 1;
case BLKTRACESTOP:
- ret = blk_trace_startstop(q, start);
+ ret = __blk_trace_startstop(q, start);
break;
case BLKTRACETEARDOWN:
- ret = blk_trace_remove(q);
+ ret = __blk_trace_remove(q);
break;
default:
ret = -ENOTTY;
@@ -708,10 +757,14 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
**/
void blk_trace_shutdown(struct request_queue *q)
{
+ mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
if (q->blk_trace) {
- blk_trace_startstop(q, 0);
- blk_trace_remove(q);
+ __blk_trace_startstop(q, 0);
+ __blk_trace_remove(q);
}
+
+ mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
@@ -1558,9 +1611,7 @@ static int blk_trace_remove_queue(struct request_queue *q)
if (bt == NULL)
return -EINVAL;

- if (atomic_dec_and_test(&blk_probes_ref))
- blk_unregister_tracepoints();
-
+ put_probe_ref();
blk_trace_free(bt);
return 0;
}
@@ -1591,8 +1642,7 @@ static int blk_trace_setup_queue(struct request_queue *q,
if (cmpxchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL, bt))
goto free_bt;

- if (atomic_inc_return(&blk_probes_ref) == 1)
- blk_register_tracepoints();
+ get_probe_ref();
return 0;

free_bt:

--
Jens Axboe