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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) a9ce7c36aa tracing: Fix race of function probes counting 
The function probe counting for traceon and traceoff suffered a race
condition where if the probe was executing on two or more CPUs at the
same time, it could decrement the counter by more than one when
disabling (or enabling) the tracer only once.

The way the traceon and traceoff probes are suppose to work is that
they disable (or enable) tracing once per count. If a user were to
echo 'schedule:traceoff:3' into set_ftrace_filter, then when the
schedule function was called, it would disable tracing. But the count
should only be decremented once (to 2). Then if the user enabled tracing
again (via tracing_on file), the next call to schedule would disable
tracing again and the count would be decremented to 1.

But if multiple CPUS called schedule at the same time, it is possible
that the count would be decremented more than once because of the
simple "count--" used.

By reading the count into a local variable and using memory barriers
we can guarantee that the count would only be decremented once per
disable (or enable).

The stack trace probe had a similar race, but here the stack trace will
decrement for each time it is called. But this had the read-modify-
write race, where it could stack trace more than the number of times
that was specified. This case we use a cmpxchg to stack trace only the
number of times specified.

The dump probes can still use the old "update_count()" function as
they only run once, and that is controlled by the dump logic
itself.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141118134643.4b550ee4@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-11-18 23:06:35 -05:00
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bpf bpf: add search pruning optimization to verifier 2014-10-01 21:30:33 -04:00
configs x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest possible kernel 2014-08-08 16:30:24 -07:00
debug kdb: replace strnicmp with strncasecmp 2014-10-14 02:18:25 +02:00
events Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
gcov ARM: 8153/1: Enable gcov support on the ARM architecture 2014-09-26 14:39:57 +01:00
irq Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
locking Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 15:51:40 +02:00
power Merge branch 'pm-domains' 2014-10-07 01:18:12 +02:00
printk Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
rcu rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods 2014-09-18 16:22:27 -07:00
sched Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
time Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
trace tracing: Fix race of function probes counting 2014-11-18 23:06:35 -05:00
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acct.c acct: eliminate compile warning 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
async.c kernel/async.c: switch to pr_foo() 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
audit_tree.c audit: rename audit_log_remove_rule to disambiguate for trees 2014-10-10 15:30:25 -04:00
audit_watch.c audit: invalid op= values for rules 2014-09-23 16:37:53 -04:00
audit.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-10-19 16:25:56 -07:00
audit.h audit: reduce scope of audit_log_fcaps 2014-09-23 16:37:51 -04:00
auditfilter.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-10-19 16:25:56 -07:00
auditsc.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-10-19 16:25:56 -07:00
backtracetest.c kernel/backtracetest.c: replace no level printk by pr_info() 2014-06-04 16:54:14 -07:00
bounds.c page-cgroup: get rid of NR_PCG_FLAGS 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
capability.c CAPABILITIES: remove undefined caps from all processes 2014-07-24 21:53:47 +10:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: rename cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes to ->legacy_cftypes 2014-07-15 11:05:09 -04:00
cgroup.c Merge branch 'for-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-10 07:26:02 -04:00
compat.c compat: nanosleep: Clarify error handling 2014-09-06 12:58:18 +02:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c x86/kprobes: Fix build errors and blacklist context_track_user 2014-06-14 09:07:44 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods 2014-09-18 16:22:27 -07:00
cpuset.c Merge branch 'for-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2014-10-10 07:24:40 -04:00
crash_dump.c crash_dump: Make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from modules 2014-08-25 15:42:19 -07:00
cred.c
delayacct.c delayacct: Remove braindamaged type conversions 2014-07-23 10:18:06 -07:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c kernel/exec_domain.c: code clean-up 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
exit.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 16:23:15 +02:00
extable.c
fork.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 16:23:15 +02:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c futex: Ensure get_futex_key_refs() always implies a barrier 2014-10-18 09:28:51 -07:00
groups.c
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtouint 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
irq_work.c Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c kernel/kallsyms.c: use __seq_open_private() 2014-10-14 02:18:16 +02:00
kcmp.c kcmp: fix standard comparison bug 2014-09-10 15:42:12 -07:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking/rwsem: Add CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER 2014-07-16 14:57:13 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: remove the unused function parameter 2014-10-14 02:18:21 +02:00
kmod.c signals: change wait_for_helper() to use kernel_sigaction() 2014-06-06 16:08:12 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Skip kretprobe hit in NMI context to avoid deadlock 2014-08-08 10:38:04 +02:00
ksysfs.c kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional. 2014-04-25 12:00:49 -07:00
kthread.c kernel/kthread.c: partial revert of 81c98869fa ("kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations") 2014-10-09 22:25:51 -04:00
latencytop.c kernel/latencytop.c: convert seq_printf to seq_puts 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
Makefile bin2c: move bin2c in scripts/basic 2014-08-08 15:57:32 -07:00
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c A single panic fix for a rare race, stable CC'd. 2014-10-18 10:24:26 -07:00
notifier.c kprobes, notifier: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro in notifier 2014-04-24 10:26:39 +02:00
nsproxy.c namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy 2014-07-29 18:08:50 -07:00
padata.c
panic.c panic: add TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP 2014-08-08 15:57:24 -07:00
params.c kernel/param: consolidate __{start,stop}___param[] in <linux/moduleparam.h> 2014-10-14 02:18:28 +02:00
pid_namespace.c
pid.c
profile.c kernel/profile.c: use static const char instead of static char 2014-06-06 16:08:13 -07:00
ptrace.c sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions 2014-07-16 15:10:39 +02:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel: add support for kernel restart handler call chain 2014-09-26 00:00:06 -07:00
relay.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
res_counter.c kernel/res_counter.c: replace simple_strtoull by kstrtoull 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
resource.c x86: optimize resource lookups for ioremap 2014-10-14 02:18:22 +02:00
seccomp.c Merge branch 'x86-seccomp-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-14 02:27:06 +02:00
signal.c Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
smp.c Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c kernel/stop_machine.c: kernel-doc warning fix 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
sys_ni.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-10-08 21:40:54 -04:00
sys.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 16:23:15 +02:00
sysctl_binary.c dmaengine-3.17 2014-10-07 20:39:25 -04:00
sysctl.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 15:44:12 +02:00
system_certificates.S
system_keyring.c KEYS: validate certificate trust only with builtin keys 2014-07-17 09:35:17 -04:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c scheduler: Replace __get_cpu_var with this_cpu_ptr 2014-08-26 13:45:45 -04:00
test_kprobes.c kernel/test_kprobes.c: use current logging functions 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
torture.c torture: Address race in module cleanup 2014-09-16 13:41:06 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracing: syscall_regfunc() should not skip kernel threads 2014-06-21 00:15:26 -04:00
tsacct.c sched: Make task->start_time nanoseconds based 2014-07-23 10:18:05 -07:00
uid16.c
up.c
user_namespace.c proc: constify seq_operations 2014-08-08 15:57:22 -07:00
user-return-notifier.c scheduler: Replace __get_cpu_var with this_cpu_ptr 2014-08-26 13:45:45 -04:00
user.c kernel/user.c: drop unused field 'files' from user_struct 2014-06-04 16:54:16 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c sysctl: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2014-06-06 16:08:16 -07:00
utsname.c namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy 2014-07-29 18:08:50 -07:00
watchdog.c Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
workqueue_internal.h workqueue: rename manager_mutex to attach_mutex 2014-05-20 10:59:32 -04:00
workqueue.c workqueue: Use cond_resched_rcu_qs macro 2014-10-06 05:58:26 -07:00