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Subject[PATCH] ring-buffer: fix uninitialized read_stamp
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This fixes a scenario in which trace_pipe_raw will return events with invalid
timestamps when events are copied out one at a time (instead of swapping out
the reader page with a spare page). In this scenario, ring_buffer_read_page()
uses cpu_buffer->read_stamp to keep track of the time of the earliest event.
However, cpu_buffer->read_stamp was not always updated. The only function that
sets read_stamp to a new valid value is rb_reset_reader_page(), which is called
only by rb_get_reader_page(). rb_reset_reader_page() was not called when there
is data immediately available on the page to read (read < rb_page_size()). This
is the bug.

Setting the read_stamp on the first read from a page fixes the bug.

Tested: On certain lightly-loaded machines, repetitive reads from
trace_pipe_raw without using splice() would sometimes result in invalid
timestamps. Poisoning bpage->timestamp in rb_init_page() with a negative value
makes the problem more visible. After this fix, the invalid timstamps
disappear.

Google-Bug-Id: 6410455
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
---

Steve, did you see this? It fixes a data-accuracy bug in ftrace. Also taking
this reminder as an opportunity to correct that typo in the description.

kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 1d0f6a8..ad0239b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -3226,8 +3226,15 @@ rb_get_reader_page(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
reader = cpu_buffer->reader_page;

/* If there's more to read, return this page */
- if (cpu_buffer->reader_page->read < rb_page_size(reader))
+ if (cpu_buffer->reader_page->read < rb_page_size(reader)) {
+ /*
+ * If this is the first read from this page,
+ * initialize the read timestamp.
+ */
+ if (cpu_buffer->reader_page->read == 0)
+ cpu_buffer->read_stamp = reader->page->time_stamp;
goto out;
+ }

/* Never should we have an index greater than the size */
if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer,
--
1.7.7.3


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