were getting corrupted. In the process I found three bugs. One was the
culprit, but the other two scared me. After deeper investigation, they
were not as major as I thought they were, due to a signed compared to
an unsigned that prevented a negative number from doing actual harm.
The two bigger bugs:
- Mask the ring buffer data page length. There are data flags at the
high bits of the length field. These were not cleared via the
length function, and the length could return a negative number.
(Although the number returned was unsigned, but was assigned to a
signed number) Luckily, this value was compared to PAGE_SIZE which is
unsigned and kept it from entering the path that could have caused damage.
- Check the page usage before reusing the ring buffer reader page.
TCP increments the page ref when passing the page off to the network.
The page is passed back to the ring buffer for use on free. But
the page could still be in use by the TCP stack.
Minor bugs:
- Related to the first bug. No need to clear out the unused ring buffer
data before sending to user space. It is now done by the ring buffer
code itself.
- Reset pointers after free on error path. There were some cases in
the error path that pointers were freed but not set to NULL, and could
have them freed again, having a pointer freed twice.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.15-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"While doing tests on tracing over the network, I found that the
packets were getting corrupted.
In the process I found three bugs.
One was the culprit, but the other two scared me. After deeper
investigation, they were not as major as I thought they were, due to a
signed compared to an unsigned that prevented a negative number from
doing actual harm.
The two bigger bugs:
- Mask the ring buffer data page length. There are data flags at the
high bits of the length field. These were not cleared via the
length function, and the length could return a negative number.
(Although the number returned was unsigned, but was assigned to a
signed number) Luckily, this value was compared to PAGE_SIZE which
is unsigned and kept it from entering the path that could have
caused damage.
- Check the page usage before reusing the ring buffer reader page.
TCP increments the page ref when passing the page off to the
network. The page is passed back to the ring buffer for use on
free. But the page could still be in use by the TCP stack.
Minor bugs:
- Related to the first bug. No need to clear out the unused ring
buffer data before sending to user space. It is now done by the
ring buffer code itself.
- Reset pointers after free on error path. There were some cases in
the error path that pointers were freed but not set to NULL, and
could have them freed again, having a pointer freed twice"
* tag 'trace-v4.15-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Fix possible double free on failure of allocating trace buffer
tracing: Fix crash when it fails to alloc ring buffer
ring-buffer: Do no reuse reader page if still in use
tracing: Remove extra zeroing out of the ring buffer page
ring-buffer: Mask out the info bits when returning buffer page length
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