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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index 23cb34ff397..97fddb09762 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -18,12 +18,24 @@ static bool perf_output_space(struct ring_buffer *rb, unsigned long tail, unsigned long offset, unsigned long head) { - unsigned long mask; + unsigned long sz = perf_data_size(rb); + unsigned long mask = sz - 1; - if (!rb->writable) + /* + * check if user-writable + * overwrite : over-write its own tail + * !overwrite: buffer possibly drops events. + */ + if (rb->overwrite) return true; - mask = perf_data_size(rb) - 1; + /* + * verify that payload is not bigger than buffer + * otherwise masking logic may fail to detect + * the "not enough space" condition + */ + if ((head - offset) > sz) + return false; offset = (offset - tail) & mask; head = (head - tail) & mask; @@ -212,7 +224,9 @@ ring_buffer_init(struct ring_buffer *rb, long watermark, int flags) rb->watermark = max_size / 2; if (flags & RING_BUFFER_WRITABLE) - rb->writable = 1; + rb->overwrite = 0; + else + rb->overwrite = 1; atomic_set(&rb->refcount, 1); |