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authorSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2016-09-23 22:57:13 -0400
committerMister Oyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2017-04-11 10:58:49 +0200
commitda3412a89aebc22ff23afb3a2920014dece7d022 (patch)
tree504cadb11721156106d1855e2d73c4bc027a1cfd /kernel/trace/trace.c
parent3f3399ad838b04ef3f870afbdfddbdcb680f461d (diff)
tracing: Move mutex to protect against resetting of seq data
commit 1245800c0f96eb6ebb368593e251d66c01e61022 upstream. The iter->seq can be reset outside the protection of the mutex. So can reading of user data. Move the mutex up to the beginning of the function. Fixes: d7350c3f45694 ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants") Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c15
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 244847066..55d214c60 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4313,13 +4313,6 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
struct trace_array *tr = iter->tr;
ssize_t sret;
- /* return any leftover data */
- sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt);
- if (sret != -EBUSY)
- return sret;
-
- trace_seq_init(&iter->seq);
-
/* copy the tracer to avoid using a global lock all around */
mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
if (unlikely(iter->trace->name != tr->current_trace->name))
@@ -4332,6 +4325,14 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
* is protected.
*/
mutex_lock(&iter->mutex);
+
+ /* return any leftover data */
+ sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt);
+ if (sret != -EBUSY)
+ goto out;
+
+ trace_seq_init(&iter->seq);
+
if (iter->trace->read) {
sret = iter->trace->read(iter, filp, ubuf, cnt, ppos);
if (sret)