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ring-buffer: Fix polling on trace_pipe
authorMartin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:06:42 +0000 (23:06 -0700)
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:07:47 +0000 (17:07 -0400)
commitf4ef107bc992dd9295dd9dd9b9476ced978e131a
tree9199f88fc151198208e20ec7f1ec596707c24ea6
parentf6a06dd95934f97c1a7018e8f5b9db5df12ac0f7
ring-buffer: Fix polling on trace_pipe

ring_buffer_poll_wait() should always put the poll_table to its wait_queue
even there is immediate data available.  Otherwise, the following epoll and
read sequence will eventually hang forever:

1. Put some data to make the trace_pipe ring_buffer read ready first
2. epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, trace_pipe_fd, ee)
3. epoll_wait()
4. read(trace_pipe_fd) till EAGAIN
5. Add some more data to the trace_pipe ring_buffer
6. epoll_wait() -> this epoll_wait() will block forever

~ During the epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD,...) call in step 2,
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() returns immediately without adding poll_table,
  which has poll_table->_qproc pointing to ep_poll_callback(), to its
  wait_queue.
~ During the epoll_wait() call in step 3 and step 6,
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() cannot add ep_poll_callback() to its wait_queue
  because the poll_table->_qproc is NULL and it is how epoll works.
~ When there is new data available in step 6, ring_buffer does not know
  it has to call ep_poll_callback() because it is not in its wait queue.
  Hence, block forever.

Other poll implementation seems to call poll_wait() unconditionally as the very
first thing to do.  For example, tcp_poll() in tcp.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140610060637.GA14045@devbig242.prn2.facebook.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.27
Fixes: b8371c56aacd "ftrace: allow the event pipe to be polled"
Reviewed-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c