[PATCH] ring-buffer: Do not record in NMI if the arch does not support cmpxchg in NMI

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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2023-12-13 22:53:23
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Subsystem: the rest, tracing · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu

Landed in mainline as 712292308af2 on 2023-12-15.

From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

As the ring buffer recording requires cmpxchg() to work, if the
architecture does not support cmpxchg in NMI, then do not do any recording
within an NMI.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 8f8887f025c9..caaffcdc6350 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -3719,6 +3719,12 @@ rb_reserve_next_event(struct trace_buffer *buffer,
 	int nr_loops = 0;
 	int add_ts_default;
 
+	/* ring buffer does cmpxchg, make sure it is safe in NMI context */
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG) &&
+	    (unlikely(in_nmi()))) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	rb_start_commit(cpu_buffer);
 	/* The commit page can not change after this */
 
-- 
2.42.0
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