commit 1d6c39c89f617c9fec6bbae166e25b16a014f7c8 upstream.
The ring buffer is made up of sub buffers (sometimes called pages as they
are by default PAGE_SIZE). It has the following "pages":
"tail page" - this is the page that the next write will write to
"head page" - this is the page that the reader will swap the reader page with.
"reader page" - This belongs to the reader, where it will swap the head
page from the ring buffer so that the reader does not
race with the writer.
The writer may end up on the "reader page" if the ring buffer hasn't
written more than one page, where the "tail page" and the "head page" are
the same.
The persistent ring buffer has meta data that points to where these pages
exist so on reboot it can re-create the pointers to the cpu_buffer
descriptor. But when the commit page is on the reader page, the logic is
incorrect.
The check to see if the commit page is on the reader page checked if the
head page was the reader page, which would never happen, as the head page
is always in the ring buffer. The correct check would be to test if the
commit page is on the reader page. If that's the case, then it can exit
out early as the commit page is only on the reader page when there's only
one page of data in the buffer. There's no reason to iterate the ring
buffer pages to find the "commit page" as it is already found.
To trigger this bug:
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_mapped/events/syscalls/sys_enter_fchownat/enable
# touch /tmp/x
# chown sshd /tmp/x
# reboot
On boot up, the dmesg will have:
Ring buffer meta [0] is from previous boot!
Ring buffer meta [1] is from previous boot!
Ring buffer meta [2] is from previous boot!
Ring buffer meta [3] is from previous boot!
Ring buffer meta [4] commit page not found
Ring buffer meta [5] is from previous boot!
Ring buffer meta [6] is from previous boot!
Ring buffer meta [7] is from previous boot!
Where the buffer on CPU 4 had a "commit page not found" error and that
buffer is cleared and reset causing the output to be empty and the data lost.
When it works correctly, it has:
# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_mapped/trace_pipe
<...>-1137 [004] ..... 998.205323: sys_enter_fchownat: __syscall_nr=0x104 (260) dfd=0xffffff9c (4294967196) filename=(0xffffc90000a0002c) user=0x3e8 (1000) group=0xffffffff (4294967295) flag=0x0 (0
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250513115032.3e0b97f7@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 5f3b6e839f ("ring-buffer: Validate boot range memory events")
Reported-by: Tasos Sahanidis <tasos@tasossah.com>
Tested-by: Tasos Sahanidis <tasos@tasossah.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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