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    perf/ring_buffer: Fix exposing a temporarily decreased data_head · cca19ab2
    Yabin Cui authored
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    In perf_output_put_handle(), an IRQ/NMI can happen in below location and
    write records to the same ring buffer:
    
    	...
    	local_dec_and_test(&rb->nest)
    	...                          <-- an IRQ/NMI can happen here
    	rb->user_page->data_head = head;
    	...
    
    In this case, a value A is written to data_head in the IRQ, then a value
    B is written to data_head after the IRQ. And A > B. As a result,
    data_head is temporarily decreased from A to B. And a reader may see
    data_head < data_tail if it read the buffer frequently enough, which
    creates unexpected behaviors.
    
    This can be fixed by moving dec(&rb->nest) to after updating data_head,
    which prevents the IRQ/NMI above from updating data_head.
    
    [ Split up by peterz. ]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
    Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
    Fixes: ef60777c ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables")
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.224478157@infradead.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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