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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] perf/ring_buffer: Fix exposing a temporarily decreased data_head.

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 03:05:09PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > > In perf_output_put_handle(), an IRQ/NMI can happen in below location and
> > > write records to the same ring buffer:
> > > ...
> > > local_dec_and_test(&rb->nest)
> > > ... <-- an IRQ/NMI can happen here
> > > rb->user_page->data_head = head;
> > > ...
> > >
> > > In this case, a value A is written to data_head in the IRQ, then a value
> > > B is written to data_head after the IRQ. And A > B. As a result,
> > > data_head is temporarily decreased from A to B. And a reader may see
> > > data_head < data_tail if it read the buffer frequently enough, which
> > > creates unexpected behaviors.
> > >
> > > This can be fixed by moving dec(&rb->nest) to after updating data_head,
> > > which prevents the IRQ/NMI above from updating data_head.
> > >
> > > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> > > Fixes: ef60777c9abd ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables")
> > > Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> > > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516184010.167903-1-yabinc@google.com
> >
> > So these are missing a bunch of:
> >
> > From: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
> >
> > lines, right?
> >
>
> The first. certainly, the rest, while inspired by his patch, is more
> complete than what he did.

Oh, indeed - I adjusted the first patch only.

Thanks,

Ingo

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