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ring-buffer: Fix event length with forced 8-byte alignment

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When RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is true, rb_calculate_event_length()
reserves the space of event->array[0] for placing the data length and
rb_update_event() stores the data length in event->array[0]
accordingly. As a result the whole event length will add extra 4 bytes
for sizeof(event.array[0]) unconditionally.

But ring_buffer_event_length() only subtracts the
sizeof(event->array[0]) for events larger than RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA +
sizeof(event->array[0]). As a result, small events on architectures
with RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT=true report a data length that is 4
bytes larger than expected.

To fix it, add the RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT as a condition to subtract
the size of that length field whenever RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is
true.

This issue is observed in a riscv64 kernel with
CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS set to y, when we run ftrace selftest
trace_marker_raw.tc, we get the weird log: for cases where the id is
1..100, the number of data field is 8*N, but once id exceeds 100, the
number of data field becomes 8*N+4:
 # 1 buf: 58 00 00 00 80 5e d1 63 (number of data field is 8*1)
 ...
 # a buf: 58 ...                  (number of data field is 8*2)
 ...
 # 64 buf: 58 ...                 (number of data field is 8*13)
 # 65 buf: 58 ...                 (number of data field is 8*13+4)

After applying this change, the number of data field keeps being 8*N+4
consistently.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260607072431.125633-2-hui.wang@canonical.com
Fixes: 2271048d1b ("ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte align")
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Hui Wang
2026-06-07 15:24:30 +08:00
committed by Steven Rostedt
parent 15d9968b68
commit c37e0a4b79
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@@ -270,7 +270,8 @@ unsigned ring_buffer_event_length(struct ring_buffer_event *event)
if (event->type_len > RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA_TYPE_LEN_MAX)
return length;
length -= RB_EVNT_HDR_SIZE;
if (length > RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA + sizeof(event->array[0]))
if (length > RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA + sizeof(event->array[0]) ||
RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT)
length -= sizeof(event->array[0]);
return length;
}