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[PATCH v6 2/2] ring-buffer: Improve nr_pages type

From: Vincent Donnefort <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-14 15:48:29
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: the rest, tracing · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu

If ring_buffer_per_cpu::nr_pages is defined as unsigned long, it is
capped to 32-bits in a few places, limiting the operations possible on a
very large buffer.

Make sure nr_pages is never capped to 32-bits (that includes nr_subbufs)
and reject a value over 32-bits for the user-mapped, persistent buffer
and remote buffer cases where the limiting factor is the shared
meta-data member for the number of pages/subbufs.

While at it, make sure subbuf_size is 'unsigned int'.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <redacted>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index ec13779922ff..ec127e2ad052 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1669,7 +1669,7 @@ static void rb_check_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
  * This is used to help find the next per cpu subbuffer within a mapped range.
  */
 static unsigned long
-rb_range_align_subbuf(unsigned long addr, int subbuf_size, int nr_subbufs)
+rb_range_align_subbuf(unsigned long addr, unsigned int subbuf_size, unsigned long nr_subbufs)
 {
 	addr += sizeof(struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta) +
 		sizeof(int) * nr_subbufs;
@@ -1679,13 +1679,12 @@ rb_range_align_subbuf(unsigned long addr, int subbuf_size, int nr_subbufs)
 /*
  * Return the ring_buffer_meta for a given @cpu.
  */
-static void *rb_range_meta(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages, int cpu)
+static void *rb_range_meta(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned long nr_pages, int cpu)
 {
-	int subbuf_size = rb_subbuf_size(buffer);
+	unsigned int subbuf_size = rb_subbuf_size(buffer);
 	struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta;
 	struct ring_buffer_meta *bmeta;
-	unsigned long ptr;
-	int nr_subbufs;
+	unsigned long ptr, nr_subbufs;
 
 	bmeta = buffer->meta;
 	if (!bmeta)
@@ -1731,7 +1730,7 @@ static void *rb_range_meta(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages, int cpu)
 /* Return the start of subbufs given the meta pointer */
 static void *rb_subbufs_from_meta(struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta)
 {
-	int subbuf_size = meta->subbuf_size;
+	unsigned int subbuf_size = meta->subbuf_size;
 	unsigned long ptr;
 
 	ptr = (unsigned long)meta;
@@ -1746,8 +1745,8 @@ static void *rb_subbufs_from_meta(struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta)
 static void *rb_range_buffer(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, int idx)
 {
 	struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta;
+	unsigned int subbuf_size;
 	unsigned long ptr;
-	int subbuf_size;
 
 	meta = rb_range_meta(cpu_buffer->buffer, 0, cpu_buffer->cpu);
 	if (!meta)
@@ -1840,10 +1839,10 @@ static bool rb_meta_init(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int scratch_size)
  * must be the same.
  */
 static bool rb_cpu_meta_valid(struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta, int cpu,
-			      struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages,
+			      struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned long nr_pages,
 			      unsigned long *subbuf_mask)
 {
-	int subbuf_size = PAGE_SIZE;
+	unsigned int subbuf_size = PAGE_SIZE;
 	unsigned long buffers_start;
 	unsigned long buffers_end;
 	int i;
@@ -2231,7 +2230,8 @@ static void rb_meta_validate_events(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 	}
 }
 
-static void rb_range_meta_init(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages, int scratch_size)
+static void rb_range_meta_init(struct trace_buffer *buffer,
+			       unsigned long nr_pages, int scratch_size)
 {
 	struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta;
 	unsigned long *subbuf_mask;
@@ -2417,7 +2417,7 @@ static void *ring_buffer_desc_page(struct ring_buffer_desc *desc, unsigned int p
 }
 
 static int __rb_allocate_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
-		long nr_pages, struct list_head *pages)
+			       unsigned long nr_pages, struct list_head *pages)
 {
 	struct trace_buffer *buffer = cpu_buffer->buffer;
 	struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta = NULL;
@@ -2545,7 +2545,7 @@ static int rb_allocate_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
 }
 
 static struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *
-rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(struct trace_buffer *buffer, long nr_pages, int cpu)
+rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned long nr_pages, int cpu)
 {
 	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer __free(kfree) =
 		alloc_cpu_buffer(cpu);
@@ -2702,8 +2702,8 @@ static void rb_test_inject_invalid_pages(struct trace_buffer *buffer)
 	struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta;
 	struct buffer_data_page *dpage;
 	unsigned long entry_bytes = 0;
+	unsigned int subbuf_size;
 	unsigned long ptr;
-	int subbuf_size;
 	int invalid = 0;
 	int cpu;
 	int i;
@@ -2773,8 +2773,8 @@ static struct trace_buffer *alloc_buffer(unsigned long size, unsigned flags,
 					 struct ring_buffer_remote *remote)
 {
 	struct trace_buffer *buffer __free(kfree) = NULL;
-	long nr_pages;
-	int subbuf_size;
+	unsigned int subbuf_size;
+	unsigned long nr_pages;
 	int bsize;
 	int cpu;
 	int ret;
@@ -2837,6 +2837,10 @@ static struct trace_buffer *alloc_buffer(unsigned long size, unsigned flags,
 		 */
 		nr_pages = (size - sizeof(struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta)) /
 			(subbuf_size + sizeof(int));
+
+		/* limited by ring_buffer_cpu_meta::nr_subbufs */
+		if (nr_pages > U32_MAX - 1)
+			goto fail_free_buffers;
 		/* Need at least two pages plus the reader page */
 		if (nr_pages < 3)
 			goto fail_free_buffers;
@@ -2869,6 +2873,10 @@ static struct trace_buffer *alloc_buffer(unsigned long size, unsigned flags,
 		/* The writer is remote. This ring-buffer is read-only */
 		atomic_inc(&buffer->record_disabled);
 		nr_pages = desc->nr_page_va - 1;
+
+		/* limited by ring_buffer_desc::nr_page_va */
+		if (nr_pages > U32_MAX - 1)
+			goto fail_free_buffers;
 		if (nr_pages < 2)
 			goto fail_free_buffers;
 	} else {
@@ -7421,8 +7429,8 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order)
 	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
 	struct buffer_page *bpage, *tmp;
 	unsigned int old_capacity;
+	unsigned long nr_pages;
 	int old_order;
-	int nr_pages;
 	int psize;
 	int err;
 	int cpu;
@@ -7604,7 +7612,7 @@ static void rb_setup_ids_meta_page(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
 				   struct buffer_page **subbuf_ids)
 {
 	struct trace_buffer_meta *meta = cpu_buffer->meta_page;
-	unsigned int nr_subbufs = cpu_buffer->nr_pages + 1;
+	unsigned long nr_subbufs = cpu_buffer->nr_pages + 1;
 	struct buffer_page *first_subbuf, *subbuf;
 	int cnt = 0;
 	int id = 0;
@@ -7834,6 +7842,10 @@ int ring_buffer_map(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu,
 	/* prevent another thread from changing buffer/sub-buffer sizes */
 	guard(mutex)(&buffer->mutex);
 
+	/* limited by trace_buffer_meta::nr_subbufs */
+	if (cpu_buffer->nr_pages > U32_MAX - 1)
+		return -E2BIG;
+
 	err = rb_alloc_meta_page(cpu_buffer);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
-- 
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