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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2011-10-14 10:44:25 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-11-07 13:47:24 -0800
commit467b9b729d746c37c8597a37603b6de3c3ec53b0 (patch)
tree5eee307602c9a6db3c7f6ffd4a84ff9ac48e07d6
parent33a7811d55f239dc688867920da9d49d806596d2 (diff)
tracing: Fix returning of duplicate data after EOF in trace_pipe_raw
commit 436fc280261dcfce5af38f08b89287750dc91cd2 upstream. The trace_pipe_raw handler holds a cached page from the time the file is opened to the time it is closed. The cached page is used to handle the case of the user space buffer being smaller than what was read from the ring buffer. The left over buffer is held in the cache so that the next read will continue where the data left off. After EOF is returned (no more data in the buffer), the index of the cached page is set to zero. If a user app reads the page again after EOF, the check in the buffer will see that the cached page is less than page size and will return the cached page again. This will cause reading the trace_pipe_raw again after EOF to return duplicate data, making the output look like the time went backwards but instead data is just repeated. The fix is to not reset the index right after all data is read from the cache, but to reset it after all data is read and more data exists in the ring buffer. Reported-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 8a58f5196f27..a3f3d0cf2daf 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3624,8 +3624,6 @@ tracing_buffers_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
if (info->read < PAGE_SIZE)
goto read;
- info->read = 0;
-
trace_access_lock(info->cpu);
ret = ring_buffer_read_page(info->tr->buffer,
&info->spare,
@@ -3640,6 +3638,8 @@ tracing_buffers_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
if (pos < PAGE_SIZE)
memset(info->spare + pos, 0, PAGE_SIZE - pos);
+ info->read = 0;
+
read:
size = PAGE_SIZE - info->read;
if (size > count)