From: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] ring-buffer: Fix the sub-buffer array base in rb_meta_subbuf_idx()
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:15:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918071507.1019251-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
On a persistent ring buffer, rb_meta_subbuf_idx() can return an index one
sub-buffer too high. rb_setup_ids_meta_page() then fills subbuf_ids[]
shifted by one and leaves subbuf_ids[0] NULL, which __rb_map_vma()
dereferences when userspace maps trace_pipe_raw. rb_update_meta_reader()
writes two such indices into meta->buffers[], which rb_cpu_meta_valid()
would reject on the next boot, discarding the previous boot's trace.
A CPU's sub-buffer array starts after its meta header and the nr_subbufs
integers that follow, aligned up to a sub-buffer. rb_meta_subbuf_idx()
inverts that calculation but skips only the integers, not the header, so
its base is one sub-buffer low whenever the omitted header size crosses
the alignment boundary.
Invert the calculation with rb_subbufs_from_meta() rather than repeating
it. rb_range_buffer() maps an index back to an address through the same
helper, so the two directions can no longer disagree.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: b14d032973d4 ("ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_meta data")
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
---
x86_64_defconfig plus KASAN, FTRACE, TRACING and TRACER_SNAPSHOT, on
5dd1818b15d9, booted with reserve_mem=<size>:0x1000:trace
trace_instance=boot_mapped@trace. head_buffer is from
instances/boot_mapped/per_cpu/cpuN/buffer_meta, the map of that CPU's
trace_pipe_raw.
nr_cpus=1, 24 reserved sizes 4096 bytes apart:
nr_subbufs head_buffer map head_buffer map
unpatched patched
997 .. 1004 1 ok 1 ok
1005 .. 1012 2 oops 1 ok
1013 .. 1019 1 ok 1 ok
nr_cpus=4, nr_subbufs 1017, one boot:
cpu 0 1 ok 1 ok
cpu 1, 2, 3 2 oops 1 ok
cpu 0's meta sits after the buffer-wide header and the scratch area and is not
sub-buffer aligned; every other cpu's is, so the affected nr_subbufs differ
between them.
Unpatched oops:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000007: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000038-0x000000000000003f]
RIP: 0010:__rb_map_vma+0x418/0xa20
With no reserved range at all, both kernels map the global buffer. On both
arms, tools/testing/selftests/ring-buffer passes 6/6 with no skips and
CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST reports "Ring buffer PASSED!". ftracetest
gives identical per-test verdicts on the two arms -- 153 pass, 6 fail, 6
unresolved, 10 unsupported, 2 xfail. The six failures are the same on both
arms and their cause was not established; the unresolved and unsupported ones
need pahole, a hypervisor trace remote, or userspace this initramfs does not
have.
The discarded-trace path is not measured: a fresh QEMU boot gets fresh guest
memory, so this harness cannot carry a persistent buffer across a reboot.
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 04bb94c29f58..fa2e2ce683aa 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -3627,10 +3627,8 @@ static void rb_inc_iter(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter)
/* Return the index into the sub-buffers for a given sub-buffer */
static int rb_meta_subbuf_idx(struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta, void *subbuf)
{
- void *subbuf_array;
+ void *subbuf_array = rb_subbufs_from_meta(meta);
- subbuf_array = (void *)meta + sizeof(int) * meta->nr_subbufs;
- subbuf_array = (void *)ALIGN((unsigned long)subbuf_array, meta->subbuf_size);
return (subbuf - subbuf_array) / meta->subbuf_size;
}
base-commit: 5dd1818b15d98d4a20806cd00b1b40320b06004f
--
2.53.0
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