Re: WARNING in tracepoint_probe_register_prio

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 11/04/2017 11:26 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 10/31/2017 05:14 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:30:41 -0600
>> Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> This code dates back to:
>>>
>>> commit c71a896154119f4ca9e89d6078f5f63ad60ef199
>>> Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
>>> Date:   Fri Jan 23 12:06:27 2009 -0200
>>>
>>>     blktrace: add ftrace plugin
>>>
>>> so not really a recent regression :-)
>>
>> How many people run two instances of blktrace? ;-> 
>> Love fuzzers!
> 
> The core code is fine, the bug is actually in sg which added
> hooks for both doing setup/teardown and start/stop of tracing.
> This was done bypassing the internal locking...
> 
> The below should do the trick. It's a fix for this commit:
> 
> commit 6da127ad0918f93ea93678dad62ce15ffed18797
> Author: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
> Date:   Fri Jan 11 10:09:43 2008 +0100
> 
>     blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices

Forgot the critical bit, updated.


diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 45a3928544ce..206e0e2ace53 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ static struct tracer_flags blk_tracer_flags = {
 };
 
 /* Global reference count of probes */
-static atomic_t blk_probes_ref = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(blk_probe_mutex);
+static int blk_probes_ref;
 
 static void blk_register_tracepoints(void);
 static void blk_unregister_tracepoints(void);
@@ -329,14 +330,29 @@ static void blk_trace_free(struct blk_trace *bt)
 	kfree(bt);
 }
 
+static void get_probe_ref(void)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&blk_probe_mutex);
+	if (++blk_probes_ref == 1)
+		blk_register_tracepoints();
+	mutex_unlock(&blk_probe_mutex);
+}
+
+static void put_probe_ref(void)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&blk_probe_mutex);
+	if (!--blk_probes_ref)
+		blk_unregister_tracepoints();
+	mutex_unlock(&blk_probe_mutex);
+}
+
 static void blk_trace_cleanup(struct blk_trace *bt)
 {
 	blk_trace_free(bt);
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&blk_probes_ref))
-		blk_unregister_tracepoints();
+	put_probe_ref();
 }
 
-int blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
+static int __blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
 {
 	struct blk_trace *bt;
 
@@ -349,6 +365,17 @@ int blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+int blk_trace_remove(struct request_queue *q)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+	ret = __blk_trace_remove(q);
+	mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_remove);
 
 static ssize_t blk_dropped_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buffer,
@@ -538,8 +565,7 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
 	if (cmpxchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL, bt))
 		goto err;
 
-	if (atomic_inc_return(&blk_probes_ref) == 1)
-		blk_register_tracepoints();
+	get_probe_ref();
 
 	ret = 0;
 err:
@@ -550,9 +576,8 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-int blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
-		    struct block_device *bdev,
-		    char __user *arg)
+static int __blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
+			     struct block_device *bdev, char __user *arg)
 {
 	struct blk_user_trace_setup buts;
 	int ret;
@@ -571,6 +596,19 @@ int blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
+
+int blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
+		    struct block_device *bdev,
+		    char __user *arg)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+	ret = __blk_trace_setup(q, name, dev, bdev, arg);
+	mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_setup);
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_COMPAT) && defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
@@ -607,7 +645,7 @@ static int compat_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name,
 }
 #endif
 
-int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
+static int __blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
 {
 	int ret;
 	struct blk_trace *bt = q->blk_trace;
@@ -646,6 +684,17 @@ int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
 
 	return ret;
 }
+
+int blk_trace_startstop(struct request_queue *q, int start)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+	ret = __blk_trace_startstop(q, start);
+	mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_trace_startstop);
 
 /*
@@ -676,7 +725,7 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
 	switch (cmd) {
 	case BLKTRACESETUP:
 		bdevname(bdev, b);
-		ret = blk_trace_setup(q, b, bdev->bd_dev, bdev, arg);
+		ret = __blk_trace_setup(q, b, bdev->bd_dev, bdev, arg);
 		break;
 #if defined(CONFIG_COMPAT) && defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
 	case BLKTRACESETUP32:
@@ -687,10 +736,10 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
 	case BLKTRACESTART:
 		start = 1;
 	case BLKTRACESTOP:
-		ret = blk_trace_startstop(q, start);
+		ret = __blk_trace_startstop(q, start);
 		break;
 	case BLKTRACETEARDOWN:
-		ret = blk_trace_remove(q);
+		ret = __blk_trace_remove(q);
 		break;
 	default:
 		ret = -ENOTTY;
@@ -708,10 +757,14 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
  **/
 void blk_trace_shutdown(struct request_queue *q)
 {
+	mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
+
 	if (q->blk_trace) {
-		blk_trace_startstop(q, 0);
-		blk_trace_remove(q);
+		__blk_trace_startstop(q, 0);
+		__blk_trace_remove(q);
 	}
+
+	mutex_unlock(&q->blk_trace_mutex);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
@@ -1558,9 +1611,7 @@ static int blk_trace_remove_queue(struct request_queue *q)
 	if (bt == NULL)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&blk_probes_ref))
-		blk_unregister_tracepoints();
-
+	put_probe_ref();
 	blk_trace_free(bt);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1591,8 +1642,7 @@ static int blk_trace_setup_queue(struct request_queue *q,
 	if (cmpxchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL, bt))
 		goto free_bt;
 
-	if (atomic_inc_return(&blk_probes_ref) == 1)
-		blk_register_tracepoints();
+	get_probe_ref();
 	return 0;
 
 free_bt:

-- 
Jens Axboe