From 07906da78810dce5fd35b9449358c9208c693dca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rabin Vincent Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 22:26:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Do not risk busy looping in buffer splice If the read loop in trace_buffers_splice_read() keeps failing due to memory allocation failures without reading even a single page then this function will keep busy looping. Remove the risk for that by exiting the function if memory allocation failures are seen. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415309167-2373-2-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 1520933..92f4a6c 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -5494,7 +5494,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, }; struct buffer_ref *ref; int entries, size, i; - ssize_t ret; + ssize_t ret = 0; mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock); @@ -5532,13 +5532,16 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, int r; ref = kzalloc(sizeof(*ref), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ref) + if (!ref) { + ret = -ENOMEM; break; + } ref->ref = 1; ref->buffer = iter->trace_buffer->buffer; ref->page = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(ref->buffer, iter->cpu_file); if (!ref->page) { + ret = -ENOMEM; kfree(ref); break; } @@ -5576,6 +5579,9 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, /* did we read anything? */ if (!spd.nr_pages) { + if (ret) + goto out; + if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) || (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK)) { ret = -EAGAIN; goto out; -- 2.7.4