tracing: Move mutex to protect against resetting of seq data

commit 1245800c0f96eb6ebb368593e251d66c01e61022 upstream.

The iter->seq can be reset outside the protection of the mutex. So can
reading of user data. Move the mutex up to the beginning of the function.

Fixes: d7350c3f45694 ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants")
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index f4b93a2070260f3a6507703abec0ffb216a24dca..ca7396e4aff440f296908138b39c7eb0fa8a37eb 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3331,13 +3331,6 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
        static struct tracer *old_tracer;
        ssize_t sret;
 
-       /* return any leftover data */
-       sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt);
-       if (sret != -EBUSY)
-               return sret;
-
-       trace_seq_init(&iter->seq);
-
        /* copy the tracer to avoid using a global lock all around */
        mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
        if (unlikely(old_tracer != current_trace && current_trace)) {
@@ -3352,6 +3345,14 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
         * is protected.
         */
        mutex_lock(&iter->mutex);
+
+       /* return any leftover data */
+       sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt);
+       if (sret != -EBUSY)
+               goto out;
+
+       trace_seq_init(&iter->seq);
+
        if (iter->trace->read) {
                sret = iter->trace->read(iter, filp, ubuf, cnt, ppos);
                if (sret)