From: Shuai Liu <847807867@qq.com>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org, mhiramat@kernel.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, vdonnefort@google.com,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+008851bf625629489e75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
sashiko-bot@kernel.org, Shuai Liu <847807867@qq.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] ring-buffer: Reset per-CPU buffer state in ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set()
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 11:06:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tencent_0A65695A966979B026705C7531C809277707@qq.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sashiko-outbox-204360@kernel.org>
ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() replaces every page of a ring buffer
with newly allocated empty pages when the sub-buffer order changes.
However, it does not reset the per-CPU accounting of the discarded
pages. The stale counters (pages_read, pages_touched, pages_lost,
entries, ...) continue to describe pages that no longer exist.
A full waiter (e.g. poll on per_cpu/*/trace_pipe_raw with
buffer_percent set) then causes ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages() to read
the stale accounting, and the invariant pages_read <= pages_touched -
pages_lost + 1 can be violated, which trips the WARN_ON_ONCE() there:
WARNING: kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:866 at ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages
Since the old pages are gone, the buffer state after swapping in the
new pages is equivalent to a freshly allocated buffer. Replace the
manual head/tail/commit page assignment and the rb_head_page_activate()
call with rb_reset_cpu(), which performs the same page setup and also
resets all per-CPU accounting.
Verified on QEMU (x86_64, v7.4-rc2): enable sched_switch events,
partially consume trace_pipe, set buffer_subbuf_size_kb to 32, then
poll trace_pipe_raw with buffer_percent=50 while writing events. The
unpatched kernel triggers the WARN above, while the patched kernel
does not, and the per-CPU stats report a clean buffer after the order
change.
Fixes: 8e7b58c27b3c ("ring-buffer: Just update the subbuffers when changing their allocation order")
Reported-by: syzbot+008851bf625629489e75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=008851bf625629489e75
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/6af009ed.4dd4714a.f8d02.000d.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Shuai Liu <847807867@qq.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Fix the Fixes tag: the stale per-CPU accounting was introduced by
8e7b58c27b3c ("ring-buffer: Just update the subbuffers when changing
their allocation order"), not 2808e31ec12e5 which only added the
interface stub (Sashiko)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 75cd8df23c1b9..2726eb8cb3eeb 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -7548,10 +7548,6 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order)
list_del_init(&cpu_buffer->new_pages);
cpu_buffer->cnt++;
- cpu_buffer->head_page
- = list_entry(cpu_buffer->pages, struct buffer_page, list);
- cpu_buffer->tail_page = cpu_buffer->commit_page = cpu_buffer->head_page;
-
cpu_buffer->nr_pages = cpu_buffer->nr_pages_to_update;
cpu_buffer->nr_pages_to_update = 0;
@@ -7560,7 +7556,13 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order)
cpu_buffer->free_page.data = NULL;
arch_spin_unlock(&cpu_buffer->lock);
- rb_head_page_activate(cpu_buffer);
+ /*
+ * The installed pages are freshly allocated and empty.
+ * Reset the stale accounting of the discarded pages,
+ * which can otherwise trip the WARN_ON_ONCE() in
+ * ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages().
+ */
+ rb_reset_cpu(cpu_buffer);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags);
--
2.43.0
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