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ring-buffer: Check for NULL cpu_buffer in ring_buffer_wake_waiters()
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On some machines the number of listed CPUs may be bigger than the actual
CPUs that exist. The tracing subsystem allocates a per_cpu directory with
access to the per CPU ring buffer via a cpuX file. But to save space, the
ring buffer will only allocate buffers for online CPUs, even though the
CPU array will be as big as the nr_cpu_ids.

With the addition of waking waiters on the ring buffer when closing the
file, the ring_buffer_wake_waiters() now needs to make sure that the
buffer is allocated (with the irq_work allocated with it) before trying to
wake waiters, as it will cause a NULL pointer dereference.

While debugging this, I added a NULL check for the buffer itself (which is
OK to do), and also NULL pointer checks against buffer->buffers (which is
not fine, and will WARN) as well as making sure the CPU number passed in
is within the nr_cpu_ids (which is also not fine if it isn't).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAM6Wdxc0KRJMXVAA0Y=u6Jh2V=uWB-_Fn6M4xRuNppfXzL1mUg@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]

Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Steven Noonan <[email protected]>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204705
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Roland Ruckerbauer <[email protected]>
Fixes: f3ddb74 ("tracing: Wake up ring buffer waiters on closing of the file")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
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rostedt committed Nov 3, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -937,6 +937,9 @@ void ring_buffer_wake_waiters(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
struct rb_irq_work *rbwork;

if (!buffer)
return;

if (cpu == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) {

/* Wake up individual ones too. One level recursion */
Expand All @@ -945,7 +948,15 @@ void ring_buffer_wake_waiters(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)

rbwork = &buffer->irq_work;
} else {
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!buffer->buffers))
return;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu >= nr_cpu_ids))
return;

cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
/* The CPU buffer may not have been initialized yet */
if (!cpu_buffer)
return;
rbwork = &cpu_buffer->irq_work;
}

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