5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Tengda Wu wutengda@huaweicloud.com
[ Upstream commit 4013aef2ced9b756a410f50d12df9ebe6a883e4a ]
When calling ftrace_dump_one() concurrently with reading trace_pipe, a WARN_ON_ONCE() in trace_printk_seq() can be triggered due to a race condition.
The issue occurs because:
CPU0 (ftrace_dump) CPU1 (reader) echo z > /proc/sysrq-trigger
!trace_empty(&iter) trace_iterator_reset(&iter) <- len = size = 0 cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe trace_find_next_entry_inc(&iter) __find_next_entry ring_buffer_empty_cpu <- all empty return NULL
trace_printk_seq(&iter.seq) WARN_ON_ONCE(s->seq.len >= s->seq.size)
In the context between trace_empty() and trace_find_next_entry_inc() during ftrace_dump, the ring buffer data was consumed by other readers. This caused trace_find_next_entry_inc to return NULL, failing to populate `iter.seq`. At this point, due to the prior trace_iterator_reset, both `iter.seq.len` and `iter.seq.size` were set to 0. Since they are equal, the WARN_ON_ONCE condition is triggered.
Move the trace_printk_seq() into the if block that checks to make sure the return value of trace_find_next_entry_inc() is non-NULL in ftrace_dump_one(), ensuring the 'iter.seq' is properly populated before subsequent operations.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@elte.hu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250822033343.3000289-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com Fixes: d769041f8653 ("ring_buffer: implement new locking") Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu wutengda@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 26b17776e8d24..54601c3ecbe59 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -9166,10 +9166,10 @@ void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode) ret = print_trace_line(&iter); if (ret != TRACE_TYPE_NO_CONSUME) trace_consume(&iter); + + trace_printk_seq(&iter.seq); } touch_nmi_watchdog(); - - trace_printk_seq(&iter.seq); }
if (!cnt)