From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:03:18 +0000 (+0200) Subject: trace: Fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse X-Git-Tag: v3.16.72~46 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ab4c96f002e2f2e6a35fcf616cc4cf19101eb14c;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git trace: Fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse commit d6097c9e4454adf1f8f2c9547c2fa6060d55d952 upstream. Unless the very next line is schedule(), or implies it, one must not use preempt_enable_no_resched(). It can cause a preemption to go missing and thereby cause arbitrary delays, breaking the PREEMPT=y invariant. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423200318.GY14281@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Tim Chen Cc: huang ying Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Daniel Borkmann Fixes: 2c2d7329d8af ("tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 107e8ce1a87e2..89d99ccb16174 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ u64 ring_buffer_time_stamp(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu) preempt_disable_notrace(); time = rb_time_stamp(buffer); - preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace(); + preempt_enable_notrace(); return time; }