[PATCH 4.18 076/145] tracing/blktrace: Fix to allow setting same value
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2018-09-07 21:16:09
Also in:
lkml, stable
4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
commit 757d9140072054528b13bbe291583d9823cde195 upstream.
Masami Hiramatsu reported:
Current trace-enable attribute in sysfs returns an error
if user writes the same setting value as current one,
e.g.
# cat /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
0
# echo 0 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
But this is not a preferred behavior, it should ignore
if new setting is same as current one. This fixes the
problem as below.
# cat /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
0
# echo 0 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180816103802.08678002@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: cd649b8bb830d ("blktrace: remove sysfs_blk_trace_enable_show/store()")
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c@@ -1841,6 +1841,10 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_blk_trace_attr_stor mutex_lock(&q->blk_trace_mutex); if (attr == &dev_attr_enable) { + if (!!value == !!q->blk_trace) { + ret = 0; + goto out_unlock_bdev; + } if (value) ret = blk_trace_setup_queue(q, bdev); else