Rabin Vincent found a way that tracing could cause an infinite loop

in the kernel. The splice logic wants a full page from the ring buffer
 but the ring_buffer_wait() returns when there's any data in the ring buffer.
 The splice code would then continue the loop waiting for a full page.
 But if a full page never happens, the splice code will never sleep and
 just continue to loop.
 
 There's another case that Rabin fixed that could loop if there's no memory
 and kmalloc() constantly returns NULL.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.18-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Rabin Vincent found a way that tracing could cause an infinite loop in
  the kernel.  The splice logic wants a full page from the ring buffer
  but the ring_buffer_wait() returns when there's any data in the ring
  buffer.  The splice code would then continue the loop waiting for a
  full page.  But if a full page never happens, the splice code will
  never sleep and just continue to loop.

  There's another case that Rabin fixed that could loop if there's no
  memory and kmalloc() constantly returns NULL"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.18-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Do not risk busy looping in buffer splice
  tracing: Do not busy wait in buffer splice

include/linux/ring_buffer.h

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ __ring_buffer_alloc(unsigned long size, unsigned flags, struct lock_class_key *k
 	__ring_buffer_alloc((size), (flags), &__key);	\
 })
 
-int ring_buffer_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
+int ring_buffer_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, bool full);
 int ring_buffer_poll_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu,
 			  struct file *filp, poll_table *poll_table);
 

kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c

@@ -538,16 +538,18 @@ static void rb_wake_up_waiters(struct irq_work *work)
  * ring_buffer_wait - wait for input to the ring buffer
  * @buffer: buffer to wait on
  * @cpu: the cpu buffer to wait on
+ * @full: wait until a full page is available, if @cpu != RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS
  *
  * If @cpu == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS then the task will wake up as soon
  * as data is added to any of the @buffer's cpu buffers. Otherwise
  * it will wait for data to be added to a specific cpu buffer.
  */
-int ring_buffer_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
+int ring_buffer_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, bool full)
 {
-	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
+	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *uninitialized_var(cpu_buffer);
 	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
 	struct rb_irq_work *work;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * Depending on what the caller is waiting for, either any
@@ -564,6 +566,7 @@ int ring_buffer_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 	}
 
 
+	while (true) {
 		prepare_to_wait(&work->waiters, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 
 		/*
@@ -588,12 +591,36 @@ int ring_buffer_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 		 */
 		work->waiters_pending = true;
 
-	if ((cpu == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS && ring_buffer_empty(buffer)) ||
-	    (cpu != RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS && ring_buffer_empty_cpu(buffer, cpu)))
+		if (signal_pending(current)) {
+			ret = -EINTR;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		if (cpu == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS && !ring_buffer_empty(buffer))
+			break;
+
+		if (cpu != RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS &&
+		    !ring_buffer_empty_cpu(buffer, cpu)) {
+			unsigned long flags;
+			bool pagebusy;
+
+			if (!full)
+				break;
+
+			raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags);
+			pagebusy = cpu_buffer->reader_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page;
+			raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags);
+
+			if (!pagebusy)
+				break;
+		}
+
 		schedule();
+	}
 
 	finish_wait(&work->waiters, &wait);
-	return 0;
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /**

kernel/trace/trace.c

@@ -1076,13 +1076,14 @@ update_max_tr_single(struct trace_array *tr, struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE */
 
-static int wait_on_pipe(struct trace_iterator *iter)
+static int wait_on_pipe(struct trace_iterator *iter, bool full)
 {
 	/* Iterators are static, they should be filled or empty */
 	if (trace_buffer_iter(iter, iter->cpu_file))
 		return 0;
 
-	return ring_buffer_wait(iter->trace_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
+	return ring_buffer_wait(iter->trace_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file,
+				full);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
@@ -4434,15 +4435,12 @@ static int tracing_wait_pipe(struct file *filp)
 
 		mutex_unlock(&iter->mutex);
 
-		ret = wait_on_pipe(iter);
+		ret = wait_on_pipe(iter, false);
 
 		mutex_lock(&iter->mutex);
 
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
-
-		if (signal_pending(current))
-			return -EINTR;
 	}
 
 	return 1;
@@ -5372,16 +5370,12 @@ tracing_buffers_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 				goto out_unlock;
 			}
 			mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
-			ret = wait_on_pipe(iter);
+			ret = wait_on_pipe(iter, false);
 			mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
 			if (ret) {
 				size = ret;
 				goto out_unlock;
 			}
-			if (signal_pending(current)) {
-				size = -EINTR;
-				goto out_unlock;
-			}
 			goto again;
 		}
 		size = 0;
@@ -5500,7 +5494,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
 	};
 	struct buffer_ref *ref;
 	int entries, size, i;
-	ssize_t ret;
+	ssize_t ret = 0;
 
 	mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
 
@@ -5538,13 +5532,16 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
 		int r;
 
 		ref = kzalloc(sizeof(*ref), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!ref)
+		if (!ref) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			break;
+		}
 
 		ref->ref = 1;
 		ref->buffer = iter->trace_buffer->buffer;
 		ref->page = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(ref->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
 		if (!ref->page) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			kfree(ref);
 			break;
 		}
@@ -5582,19 +5579,19 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
 
 	/* did we read anything? */
 	if (!spd.nr_pages) {
+		if (ret)
+			goto out;
+
 		if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) || (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK)) {
 			ret = -EAGAIN;
 			goto out;
 		}
 		mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
-		ret = wait_on_pipe(iter);
+		ret = wait_on_pipe(iter, true);
 		mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
 		if (ret)
 			goto out;
-		if (signal_pending(current)) {
-			ret = -EINTR;
-			goto out;
-		}
+
 		goto again;
 	}