Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.17-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull trace buffer epoll hang fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Josef Bacik found a bug in the ring_buffer_poll_wait() where the
  condition variable (waiters_pending) was set before being added to the
  poll queue via poll_wait().  This allowed for a small race window to
  happen where an event could come in, check the condition variable see
  it set to true, clear it, and then wake all the waiters.  But because
  the waiter set the variable before adding itself to the queue, the
  waker could have cleared the variable after it was set and then miss
  waking it up as it wasn't added to the queue yet.

  Discussing this bug, we realized that a memory barrier needed to be
  added too, for the rare case that something polls for a single trace
  event to happen (and just one, no more to come in), and miss the
  wakeup due to memory ordering.  Ideally, a memory barrier needs to be
  added on the writer side too, but as that will kill tracing
  performance and this is for a situation that tracing wasn't even
  designed for (who traces one instance of an event, use a printk
  instead!), this isn't worth adding the barrier.  But we can in the
  future add the barrier for when the buffer goes from empty to the
  first event, as that would cover this case"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.17-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  trace: Fix epoll hang when we race with new entries

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index afb04b9b818..b38fb2b9e23 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -626,8 +626,22 @@ int ring_buffer_poll_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu,
 		work = &cpu_buffer->irq_work;
 	}
 
-	work->waiters_pending = true;
 	poll_wait(filp, &work->waiters, poll_table);
+	work->waiters_pending = true;
+	/*
+	 * There's a tight race between setting the waiters_pending and
+	 * checking if the ring buffer is empty.  Once the waiters_pending bit
+	 * is set, the next event will wake the task up, but we can get stuck
+	 * if there's only a single event in.
+	 *
+	 * FIXME: Ideally, we need a memory barrier on the writer side as well,
+	 * but adding a memory barrier to all events will cause too much of a
+	 * performance hit in the fast path.  We only need a memory barrier when
+	 * the buffer goes from empty to having content.  But as this race is
+	 * extremely small, and it's not a problem if another event comes in, we
+	 * will fix it later.
+	 */
+	smp_mb();
 
 	if ((cpu == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS && !ring_buffer_empty(buffer)) ||
 	    (cpu != RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS && !ring_buffer_empty_cpu(buffer, cpu)))