Steven Rostedt (VMware) 8e99cf91b9 tracing: Do not allocate buffer in trace_find_next_entry() in atomic
When dumping out the trace data in latency format, a check is made to peek
at the next event to compare its timestamp to the current one, and if the
delta is of a greater size, it will add a marker showing so. But to do this,
it needs to save the current event otherwise peeking at the next event will
remove the current event. To save the event, a temp buffer is used, and if
the event is bigger than the temp buffer, the temp buffer is freed and a
bigger buffer is allocated.

This allocation is a problem when called in atomic context. The only way
this gets called via atomic context is via ftrace_dump(). Thus, use a static
buffer of 128 bytes (which covers most events), and if the event is bigger
than that, simply return NULL. The callers of trace_find_next_entry() need
to handle a NULL case, as that's what would happen if the allocation failed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326091256.GR11705@shao2-debian

Fixes: ff895103a8 ("tracing: Save off entry when peeking at next entry")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-04-03 11:30:50 -04:00
2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
2020-03-01 16:38:46 -06:00

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