Commit d6097c9e authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Steven Rostedt (VMware)

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 <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2c2d7329 ("tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 91862cc7
......@@ -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;
}
......
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