This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ring-buffer: Mask out the info bits when returning buffer page length

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: ring-buffer-mask-out-the-info-bits-when-returning-buffer-page-length.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 45d8b80c2ac5d21cd1e2954431fb676bc2b1e099 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" rostedt@goodmis.org Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 20:32:35 -0500 Subject: ring-buffer: Mask out the info bits when returning buffer page length

From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org

commit 45d8b80c2ac5d21cd1e2954431fb676bc2b1e099 upstream.

Two info bits were added to the "commit" part of the ring buffer data page when returned to be consumed. This was to inform the user space readers that events have been missed, and that the count may be stored at the end of the page.

What wasn't handled, was the splice code that actually called a function to return the length of the data in order to zero out the rest of the page before sending it up to user space. These data bits were returned with the length making the value negative, and that negative value was not checked. It was compared to PAGE_SIZE, and only used if the size was less than PAGE_SIZE. Luckily PAGE_SIZE is unsigned long which made the compare an unsigned compare, meaning the negative size value did not end up causing a large portion of memory to be randomly zeroed out.

Fixes: 66a8cb95ed040 ("ring-buffer: Add place holder recording of dropped events") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -280,6 +280,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_event_data /* Missed count stored at end */ #define RB_MISSED_STORED (1 << 30)

+#define RB_MISSED_FLAGS (RB_MISSED_EVENTS|RB_MISSED_STORED) + struct buffer_data_page { u64 time_stamp; /* page time stamp */ local_t commit; /* write committed index */ @@ -331,7 +333,9 @@ static void rb_init_page(struct buffer_d */ size_t ring_buffer_page_len(void *page) { - return local_read(&((struct buffer_data_page *)page)->commit) + struct buffer_data_page *bpage = page; + + return (local_read(&bpage->commit) & ~RB_MISSED_FLAGS) + BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@goodmis.org are

queue-4.4/tracing-fix-crash-when-it-fails-to-alloc-ring-buffer.patch queue-4.4/tracing-remove-extra-zeroing-out-of-the-ring-buffer-page.patch queue-4.4/ring-buffer-mask-out-the-info-bits-when-returning-buffer-page-length.patch queue-4.4/tracing-fix-possible-double-free-on-failure-of-allocating-trace-buffer.patch