fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation
authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:13:53 +0000 (10:13 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:00:29 +0000 (14:00 +0100)
commit7ffd979613681d33dc9f71becd817cfd54734103
tree22c20c1e1db9fc1f4663ddfff2c822bbd7d7eb54
parent29c52025152bab4c557d8174da58f1a4c8e70438
fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation

commit 7e0a9220467dbcfdc5bc62825724f3e52e50ab31 upstream.

On some archs, the idle task can call into cpu_suspend(). The cpu_suspend()
will disable or pause function graph tracing, as there's some paths in
bringing down the CPU that can have issues with its return address being
modified. The task_struct structure has a "tracing_graph_pause" atomic
counter, that when set to something other than zero, the function graph
tracer will not modify the return address.

The problem is that the tracing_graph_pause counter is initialized when the
function graph tracer is enabled. This can corrupt the counter for the idle
task if it is suspended in these architectures.

   CPU 1 CPU 2
   ----- -----
  do_idle()
    cpu_suspend()
      pause_graph_tracing()
          task_struct->tracing_graph_pause++ (0 -> 1)

start_graph_tracing()
  for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
    ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(cpu)
      task-struct->tracing_graph_pause = 0 (1 -> 0)

      unpause_graph_tracing()
          task_struct->tracing_graph_pause-- (0 -> -1)

The above should have gone from 1 to zero, and enabled function graph
tracing again. But instead, it is set to -1, which keeps it disabled.

There's no reason that the field tracing_graph_pause on the task_struct can
not be initialized at boot up.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 380c4b1411ccd ("tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flag")
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211339
Reported-by: pierre.gondois@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/ftrace.h
kernel/trace/ftrace.c