4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rost...@goodmis.org>
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 <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4727,19 +4727,20 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, cha
struct trace_iterator *iter = filp->private_data;
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);
-
/*
* Avoid more than one consumer on a single file descriptor
* This is just a matter of traces coherency, the ring buffer itself
* 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)
