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    ring-buffer: Protect ring_buffer_reset() from reentrancy · 51d15794
    Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
    The resetting of the entire ring buffer use to simply go through and reset
    each individual CPU buffer that had its own protection and synchronization.
    But this was very slow, due to performing a synchronization for each CPU.
    The code was reshuffled to do one disabling of all CPU buffers, followed
    by a single RCU synchronization, and then the resetting of each of the CPU
    buffers. But unfortunately, the mutex that prevented multiple occurrences
    of resetting the buffer was not moved to the upper function, and there is
    nothing to protect from it.
    
    Take the ring buffer mutex around the global reset.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Fixes: b23d7a5f ("ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU")
    Reported-by: default avatar"Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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