tracing: Avoid soft lockup in trace_pipe

running following commands:

# enable the binary option
echo 1 > ./options/bin
# disable context info option
echo 0 > ./options/context-info
# tracing only events
echo 1 > ./events/enable
cat trace_pipe

plus forcing system to generate many tracing events,
is causing lockup (in NON preemptive kernels) inside
tracing_read_pipe function.

The issue is also easily reproduced by running ltp stress test.
(ftrace_stress_test.sh)

The reasons are:
- bin/hex/raw output functions for events are set to
trace_nop_print function, which prints nothing and
returns TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED value
- LOST EVENT trace do not handle trace_seq overflow

These reasons force the while loop in tracing_read_pipe
function never to break.

The attached patch fixies handling of lost event trace, and
changes trace_nop_print to print minimal info, which is needed
for the correct tracing_read_pipe processing.

v2 changes:
- omit the cond_resched changes by trace_nop_print changes
- WARN changed to WARN_ONCE and added info to be able
to find out the culprit

v3 changes:
- make more accurate patch comment

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[e-mail]>
LKML-Reference: <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[e-mail]>

kernel/trace/trace.c

···
 {
 	enum print_line_t ret;
 
-	if (iter->lost_events)
-		trace_seq_printf(&iter->seq, "CPU:%d [LOST %lu EVENTS]\n",
-				 iter->cpu, iter->lost_events);
+	if (iter->lost_events &&
+	    !trace_seq_printf(&iter->seq, "CPU:%d [LOST %lu EVENTS]\n",
+				 iter->cpu, iter->lost_events))
+		return TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE;
 
 	if (iter->trace && iter->trace->print_line) {
 		ret = iter->trace->print_line(iter);
···
 
 		if (iter->seq.len >= cnt)
 			break;
+
+		/*
+		 * Setting the full flag means we reached the trace_seq buffer
+		 * size and we should leave by partial output condition above.
+		 * One of the trace_seq_* functions is not used properly.
+		 */
+		WARN_ONCE(iter->seq.full, "full flag set for trace type %d",
+			  iter->ent->type);
 	}
 	trace_access_unlock(iter->cpu_file);
 	trace_event_read_unlock();

kernel/trace/trace_output.c

···
 enum print_line_t trace_nop_print(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags,
 				  struct trace_event *event)
 {
+	if (!trace_seq_printf(&iter->seq, "type: %d\n", iter->ent->type))
+		return TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE;
+
 	return TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED;
 }