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Ivan Immanuel Shaji e0d3aed7b1 tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap
simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page() starts with retry set to 8 and
post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final
attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a failed
replacement leaves it at -1.

The current !retry test reverses both outcomes. It returns an error after
a successful final replacement, leaving the link update complete but the
reader bookkeeping unfinished. After a failed final replacement, it
falls through and updates the head and reader pointers as though the
replacement succeeded, which can corrupt the ring.

Treat only a negative counter as exhaustion and return the documented
-EBUSY error.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 34e5b958bd ("tracing: Introduce simple_ring_buffer")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260825-kernel-patch-1-v2-1-bb3461807a32@gmail.com
Assisted-by: LLM sparse
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Immanuel Shaji <ivanimmanuel1234@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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