In 'ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set()', prefer mutex guard over explicit mutex operations to ensure that the buffer remains locked everywhere where its innards may be changed, thus preventing per-CPU sub-buffer lists corruptions and other concurrency-related issues.
Reported-by: [email protected] Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=05d673e83ec640f0ced9 Fixes: f9b94daa542a8 ("ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <[email protected]> --- v2: use mutex guard as suggested by Steven --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index e24509bd0af5..00fc38d70e86 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -6795,7 +6795,7 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order) old_size = buffer->subbuf_size; /* prevent another thread from changing buffer sizes */ - mutex_lock(&buffer->mutex); + guard(mutex)(&buffer->mutex); atomic_inc(&buffer->record_disabled); /* Make sure all commits have finished */ @@ -6900,7 +6900,6 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order) } atomic_dec(&buffer->record_disabled); - mutex_unlock(&buffer->mutex); return 0; @@ -6909,7 +6908,6 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order) buffer->subbuf_size = old_size; atomic_dec(&buffer->record_disabled); - mutex_unlock(&buffer->mutex); for_each_buffer_cpu(buffer, cpu) { cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; -- 2.49.0
