From d6097c9e4454adf1f8f2c9547c2fa6060d55d952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 22:03:18 +0200 Subject: trace: Fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse 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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org 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) --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 41b6f96e5366..4ee8d8aa3d0f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ 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; } -- cgit