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Commit c2489bb7 authored by Zheng Yejian's avatar Zheng Yejian Committed by Steven Rostedt (Google)
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tracing: Introduce pipe_cpumask to avoid race on trace_pipes

There is race issue when concurrently splice_read main trace_pipe and
per_cpu trace_pipes which will result in data read out being different
from what actually writen.

As suggested by Steven:
  > I believe we should add a ref count to trace_pipe and the per_cpu
  > trace_pipes, where if they are opened, nothing else can read it.
  >
  > Opening trace_pipe locks all per_cpu ref counts, if any of them are
  > open, then the trace_pipe open will fail (and releases any ref counts
  > it had taken).
  >
  > Opening a per_cpu trace_pipe will up the ref count for just that
  > CPU buffer. This will allow multiple tasks to read different per_cpu
  > trace_pipe files, but will prevent the main trace_pipe file from
  > being opened.

But because we only need to know whether per_cpu trace_pipe is open or
not, using a cpumask instead of using ref count may be easier.

After this patch, users will find that:
 - Main trace_pipe can be opened by only one user, and if it is
   opened, all per_cpu trace_pipes cannot be opened;
 - Per_cpu trace_pipes can be opened by multiple users, but each per_cpu
   trace_pipe can only be opened by one user. And if one of them is
   opened, main trace_pipe cannot be opened.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230818022645.1948314-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com



Suggested-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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