tracing: reset ring buffer when removing modules with events

Li Zefan found that there's a race using the event ids of events and
modules. When a module is loaded, an event id is incremented. We only
have 16 bits for event ids (65536) and there is a possible (but highly
unlikely) race that we could load and unload a module that registers
events so many times that the event id counter overflows.

When it overflows, it then restarts and goes looking for available
ids. An id is available if it was added by a module and released.

The race is if you have one module add an id, and then is removed.
Another module loaded can use that same event id. But if the old module
still had events in the ring buffer, the new module's call back would
get bogus data.  At best (and most likely) the output would just be
garbage. But if the module for some reason used pointers (not recommended)
then this could potentially crash.

The safest thing to do is just reset the ring buffer if a module that
registered events is removed.

[ Impact: prevent unpredictable results of event id overflows ]

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49FEAFD0.30106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 777c6c3a0cde..ba25793ffe67 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -409,6 +409,8 @@ int tracing_is_enabled(void);
 void trace_wake_up(void);
 void tracing_reset(struct trace_array *tr, int cpu);
 void tracing_reset_online_cpus(struct trace_array *tr);
+void tracing_reset_current(int cpu);
+void tracing_reset_current_online_cpus(void);
 int tracing_open_generic(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp);
 struct dentry *trace_create_file(const char *name,
                                  mode_t mode,