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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9b94a8fba5 ring-buffer: Use long for nr_pages to avoid overflow failures 
The size variable to change the ring buffer in ftrace is a long. The
nr_pages used to update the ring buffer based on the size is int. On 64 bit
machines this can cause an overflow problem.

For example, the following will cause the ring buffer to crash:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo 10 > buffer_size_kb
 # echo 8556384240 > buffer_size_kb

Then you get the warning of:

 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 318 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1527 rb_update_pages+0x22f/0x260

Which is:

  RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, nr_removed);

Note each ring buffer page holds 4080 bytes.

This is because:

 1) 10 causes the ring buffer to have 3 pages.
    (10kb requires 3 * 4080 pages to hold)

 2) (2^31 / 2^10  + 1) * 4080 = 8556384240
    The value written into buffer_size_kb is shifted by 10 and then passed
    to ring_buffer_resize(). 8556384240 * 2^10 = 8761737461760

 3) The size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is then divided by BUF_PAGE_SIZE
    which is 4080. 8761737461760 / 4080 = 2147484672

 4) nr_pages is subtracted from the current nr_pages (3) and we get:
    2147484669. This value is saved in a signed integer nr_pages_to_update

 5) 2147484669 is greater than 2^31 but smaller than 2^32, a signed int
    turns into the value of -2147482627

 6) As the value is a negative number, in update_pages_handler() it is
    negated and passed to rb_remove_pages() and 2147482627 pages will
    be removed, which is much larger than 3 and it causes the warning
    because not all the pages asked to be removed were removed.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118001

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.28+
Fixes: 7a8e76a382 ("tracing: unified trace buffer")
Reported-by: Hao Qin <QEver.cn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
 		2016-05-13 11:12:20 -04:00
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bpf bpf: fix double-fdput in replace_map_fd_with_map_ptr() 2016-04-26 17:37:21 -04:00
configs kconfig: add xenconfig defconfig helper 2015-06-16 11:04:29 +01:00
debug mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings 2016-02-22 08:51:37 +01:00
events perf/core: Fix perf_event_open() vs. execve() race 2016-04-28 10:32:41 +02:00
gcov gcov: use within_module() helper. 2015-12-04 22:46:25 +01:00
irq genirq: Dont allow affinity mask to be updated on IPIs 2016-04-21 12:05:15 +02:00
livepatch livepatch/module: remove livepatch module notifier 2016-03-17 09:45:10 +01:00
locking lockdep: Fix lock_chain::base size 2016-04-23 13:53:03 +02:00
power Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 2 2016-03-24 22:59:58 -07:00
printk printk: add clear_idx symbol to vmcoreinfo 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
rcu kernel: add kcov code coverage 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
sched locking/atomic, sched: Unexport fetch_or() 2016-03-29 11:52:11 +02:00
time timers/nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic_t 2016-03-29 11:52:11 +02:00
trace ring-buffer: Use long for nr_pages to avoid overflow failures 2016-05-13 11:12:20 -04:00
.gitignore certs: add .gitignore to stop git nagging about x509_certificate_list 2015-10-21 15:18:35 +01:00
Kconfig.freezer
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Kconfig.hz
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Kconfig.locks locking/qrwlock: Rename QUEUE_RWLOCK to QUEUED_RWLOCKS 2015-05-12 09:46:00 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
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Makefile kernel: add kcov code coverage 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
acct.c acct: check FMODE_CAN_WRITE 2015-04-11 22:27:55 -04:00
async.c async: export current_is_async() 2015-11-19 17:51:48 +01:00
audit.c Merge branch 'stable-4.6' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-03-19 17:52:49 -07:00
audit.h security: Make inode argument of inode_getsecid non-const 2015-12-24 11:09:39 -05:00
audit_fsnotify.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
audit_tree.c audit: audit_tree_match can be boolean 2015-11-04 08:23:51 -05:00
audit_watch.c Merge branch 'stable-4.6' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-03-19 17:52:49 -07:00
auditfilter.c audit: Fix typo in comment 2016-02-08 11:25:39 -05:00
auditsc.c auditsc: for seccomp events, log syscall compat state using in_compat_syscall 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
backtracetest.c
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bounds.c
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capability.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
cgroup.c cgroup, cpuset: replace cpuset_post_attach_flush() with cgroup_subsys->post_attach callback 2016-04-25 15:45:14 -04:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: kill cgrp_ss_priv[CGROUP_CANFORK_COUNT] and friends 2015-12-03 10:24:08 -05:00
cgroup_pids.c cgroup_pids: fix a typo. 2015-12-14 14:54:37 -05:00
compat.c compat: cleanup coding in compat_get_bitmap() and compat_put_bitmap() 2015-06-04 23:57:18 +02:00
configs.c
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context_tracking.c context_tracking: Switch to new static_branch API 2015-11-24 09:56:43 +01:00
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Fix rollback during error-out in __cpu_disable() 2016-04-22 09:49:49 +02:00
cpu_pm.c kernel/cpu_pm: fix cpu_cluster_pm_exit comment 2015-09-03 02:42:20 +02:00
cpuset.c cgroup, cpuset: replace cpuset_post_attach_flush() with cgroup_subsys->post_attach callback 2016-04-25 15:45:14 -04:00
crash_dump.c
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cred.c kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
delayacct.c kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
dma.c
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elfcore.c
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exec_domain.c Remove rest of exec domains. 2015-04-12 21:03:31 +02:00
exit.c oom: clear TIF_MEMDIE after oom_reaper managed to unmap the address space 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
extable.c kernel/extable.c: remove duplicated include 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
fork.c kernel: add kcov code coverage 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
freezer.c
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futex.c futex: Acknowledge a new waiter in counter before plist 2016-04-21 11:06:09 +02:00
futex_compat.c ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
groups.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: use timeout diff when timeout is updated 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
irq_work.c treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
jump_label.c treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
kcmp.c ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kcov.c kcov: don't profile branches in kcov 2016-04-28 19:34:04 -07:00
kexec.c kexec: set KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH before sanity_check_segment_list() 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kexec_core.c kexec: export OFFSET(page.compound_head) to find out compound tail page 2016-04-28 19:34:04 -07:00
kexec_file.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-03-17 11:33:45 -07:00
kexec_internal.h kexec: move some memembers and definitions within the scope of CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kmod.c kmod: don't run async usermode helper as a child of kworker thread 2015-10-23 17:55:10 +09:00
kprobes.c perf/x86/hw_breakpoints: Disallow kernel breakpoints unless kprobe-safe 2015-08-04 10:16:54 +02:00
ksysfs.c rcu: Remove TINY_RCU bloat from pointless boot parameters 2015-12-07 16:59:37 -08:00
kthread.c kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentation 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
latencytop.c sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default 2016-02-09 11:54:23 +01:00
membarrier.c sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) 2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
memremap.c memremap: add MEMREMAP_WC flag 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
module-internal.h
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module.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching 2016-03-17 21:46:32 -07:00
module_signing.c X.509: Make algo identifiers text instead of enum 2016-03-03 21:49:27 +00:00
notifier.c Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-09-01 08:40:25 -07:00
nsproxy.c cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces 2016-02-16 13:04:58 -05:00
padata.c
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panic.c panic: change nmi_panic from macro to function 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
params.c Nothing exciting, minor tweaks and cleanups. 2015-11-09 15:53:39 -08:00
pid.c Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-31 15:44:04 -08:00
pid_namespace.c
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profile.c profile: hide unused functions when !CONFIG_PROC_FS 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
ptrace.c ptrace: change __ptrace_unlink() to clear ->ptrace under ->siglock 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
range.c
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reboot.c kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
relay.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
resource.c /proc/iomem: only expose physical resource addresses to privileged users 2016-04-14 12:56:09 -07:00
seccomp.c seccomp: check in_compat_syscall, not is_compat_task, in strict mode 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
signal.c kernel/signal.c: add compile-time check for __ARCH_SI_PREAMBLE_SIZE 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
smp.c Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-15 13:50:29 -07:00
smpboot.c cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine 2016-03-01 20:36:56 +01:00
smpboot.h cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads 2016-03-01 20:36:56 +01:00
softirq.c arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
stacktrace.c
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stop_machine.c kernel/stop_machine.c: remove CONFIG_SMP dependencies 2016-01-16 11:17:24 -08:00
sys.c timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
sys_ni.c vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper 2015-12-01 14:00:53 -05:00
sysctl.c mm: scale kswapd watermarks in proportion to memory 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
task_work.c task_work: remove fifo ordering guarantee 2015-09-05 13:46:58 -07:00
taskstats.c
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test_kprobes.c
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torture.c torture: Consolidate cond_resched_rcu_qs() into stutter_wait() 2015-10-06 11:25:01 -07:00
tracepoint.c kernel/...: convert pr_warning to pr_warn 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
tsacct.c time, acct: Drop irq save & restore from __acct_update_integrals() 2016-02-29 09:53:09 +01:00
uid16.c
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up.c
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user-return-notifier.c
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user.c
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user_namespace.c kernel/*: switch to memdup_user_nul() 2016-01-04 10:27:55 -05:00
utsname.c
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utsname_sysctl.c
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watchdog.c watchdog: don't run proc_watchdog_update if new value is same as old 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-4.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2016-04-27 12:03:59 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h sched/core: Get rid of 'cpu' argument in wq_worker_sleeping() 2016-03-02 10:28:47 -05:00