oprofile: warn on freeing event buffer too early

A race shouldn't happen since all workqueues or handlers are canceled
or flushed before the event buffer is freed. A warning is triggered
now if the buffer is freed too early.

Also, this patch adds some comments about event buffer protection,
reworks some code and adds code to clear buffer_pos during alloc and
free of the event buffer.

Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c b/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c
index c38adb389064..5df60a6b6776 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c
@@ -35,17 +35,22 @@ static size_t buffer_pos;
 /* atomic_t because wait_event checks it outside of buffer_mutex */
 static atomic_t buffer_ready = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
-/* Add an entry to the event buffer. When we
- * get near to the end we wake up the process
- * sleeping on the read() of the file.
+/*
+ * Add an entry to the event buffer. When we get near to the end we
+ * wake up the process sleeping on the read() of the file. To protect
+ * the event_buffer this function may only be called when buffer_mutex
+ * is set.
  */
 void add_event_entry(unsigned long value)
 {
         /*
-         * catch potential error
+         * This shouldn't happen since all workqueues or handlers are
+         * canceled or flushed before the event buffer is freed.
          */
-        if (!event_buffer)
+        if (!event_buffer) {
+                WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
                 return;
+        }
 
         if (buffer_pos == buffer_size) {
                 atomic_inc(&oprofile_stats.event_lost_overflow);
@@ -75,7 +80,6 @@ void wake_up_buffer_waiter(void)
 
 int alloc_event_buffer(void)
 {
-        int err = -ENOMEM;
         unsigned long flags;
 
         spin_lock_irqsave(&oprofilefs_lock, flags);
@@ -86,13 +90,12 @@ int alloc_event_buffer(void)
         if (buffer_watershed >= buffer_size)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
+        buffer_pos = 0;
         event_buffer = vmalloc(sizeof(unsigned long) * buffer_size);
         if (!event_buffer)
-                goto out;
+                return -ENOMEM;
 
-        err = 0;
-out:
-        return err;
+        return 0;
 }
 
 
@@ -100,6 +103,7 @@ void free_event_buffer(void)
 {
         mutex_lock(&buffer_mutex);
         vfree(event_buffer);
+        buffer_pos = 0;
         event_buffer = NULL;
         mutex_unlock(&buffer_mutex);
 }
@@ -174,6 +178,7 @@ static ssize_t event_buffer_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 
         mutex_lock(&buffer_mutex);
 
+        /* May happen if the buffer is freed during pending reads. */
         if (!event_buffer) {
                 retval = -EINTR;
                 goto out;