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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/trace/fprobe.c, branch v7.0.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>tracing/fprobe: Reject registration of a registered fprobe before init</title>
<updated>2026-05-07T04:13:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-20T14:00:48+00:00</published>
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commit 6ad51ada17ed80c9a5f205b4c01c424cac8b0d46 upstream.

Reject registration of a registered fprobe which is on the fprobe
hash table before initializing fprobe.
The add_fprobe_hash() checks this re-register fprobe, but since
fprobe_init() clears hlist_array field, it is too late to check it.
It has to check the re-registration before touncing fprobe.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/177669364845.132053.18375367916162315835.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/

Fixes: 4346ba160409 ("fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 6ad51ada17ed80c9a5f205b4c01c424cac8b0d46 upstream.

Reject registration of a registered fprobe which is on the fprobe
hash table before initializing fprobe.
The add_fprobe_hash() checks this re-register fprobe, but since
fprobe_init() clears hlist_array field, it is too late to check it.
It has to check the re-registration before touncing fprobe.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/177669364845.132053.18375367916162315835.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/

Fixes: 4346ba160409 ("fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-12-06T21:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-06T21:49:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=09670b8c38b37bc2d6fc5d01fa7e02c38f7adf36'/>
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Fix accounting of stop_count in file release

   On opening the trace file, if "pause-on-trace" option is set, it will
   increment the stop_count. On file release, it checks if stop_count is
   set, and if so it decrements it. Since this code was originally
   written, the stop_count can be incremented by other use cases. This
   makes just checking the stop_count not enough to know if it should be
   decremented.

   Add a new iterator flag called "PAUSE" and have it set if the open
   disables tracing and only decrement the stop_count if that flag is
   set on close.

 - Remove length field in trace_seq_printf() of print_synth_event()

   When printing the synthetic event that has a static length array
   field, the vsprintf() of the trace_seq_printf() triggered a
   "(efault)" in the output. That's because the print_fmt replaced the
   "%.*s" with "%s" causing the arguments to be off.

 - Fix a bunch of typos

* tag 'trace-v6.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix typo in trace_seq.c
  tracing: Fix typo in trace_probe.c
  tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_osnoise.c
  tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_events_user.c
  tracing: Fix typo in trace_events_trigger.c
  tracing: Fix typo in trace_events_hist.c
  tracing: Fix typo in trace_events_filter.c
  tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_events.c
  tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace.c
  tracing: Fix typo in ring_buffer_benchmark.c
  tracing: Fix multiple typos in ring_buffer.c
  tracing: Fix typo in fprobe.c
  tracing: Fix typo in fpgraph.c
  tracing: Fix fixed array of synthetic event
  tracing: Fix enabling of tracing on file release
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Fix accounting of stop_count in file release

   On opening the trace file, if "pause-on-trace" option is set, it will
   increment the stop_count. On file release, it checks if stop_count is
   set, and if so it decrements it. Since this code was originally
   written, the stop_count can be incremented by other use cases. This
   makes just checking the stop_count not enough to know if it should be
   decremented.

   Add a new iterator flag called "PAUSE" and have it set if the open
   disables tracing and only decrement the stop_count if that flag is
   set on close.

 - Remove length field in trace_seq_printf() of print_synth_event()

   When printing the synthetic event that has a static length array
   field, the vsprintf() of the trace_seq_printf() triggered a
   "(efault)" in the output. That's because the print_fmt replaced the
   "%.*s" with "%s" causing the arguments to be off.

 - Fix a bunch of typos

* tag 'trace-v6.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix typo in trace_seq.c
  tracing: Fix typo in trace_probe.c
  tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_osnoise.c
  tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_events_user.c
  tracing: Fix typo in trace_events_trigger.c
  tracing: Fix typo in trace_events_hist.c
  tracing: Fix typo in trace_events_filter.c
  tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_events.c
  tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace.c
  tracing: Fix typo in ring_buffer_benchmark.c
  tracing: Fix multiple typos in ring_buffer.c
  tracing: Fix typo in fprobe.c
  tracing: Fix typo in fpgraph.c
  tracing: Fix fixed array of synthetic event
  tracing: Fix enabling of tracing on file release
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix typo in fprobe.c</title>
<updated>2025-12-05T20:43:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maurice Hieronymus</name>
<email>mhi@mailbox.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-21T22:18:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2ec7345c2d589f3e7358e753ef5b6ae7be66d846'/>
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Fix typo "funciton" to "function".

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121221835.28032-4-mhi@mailbox.org
Signed-off-by: Maurice Hieronymus &lt;mhi@mailbox.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Fix typo "funciton" to "function".

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121221835.28032-4-mhi@mailbox.org
Signed-off-by: Maurice Hieronymus &lt;mhi@mailbox.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: fprobe: use ftrace if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS</title>
<updated>2025-11-11T13:32:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-03T06:34:34+00:00</published>
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For now, we will use ftrace for the fprobe if fp-&gt;exit_handler not exists
and CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS is enabled.

However, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS is not supported by some arch,
such as arm. What we need in the fprobe is the function arguments, so we
can use ftrace for fprobe if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is enabled.

Therefore, use ftrace if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS or
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS enabled.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251103063434.47388-1-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn/

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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For now, we will use ftrace for the fprobe if fp-&gt;exit_handler not exists
and CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS is enabled.

However, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS is not supported by some arch,
such as arm. What we need in the fprobe is the function arguments, so we
can use ftrace for fprobe if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is enabled.

Therefore, use ftrace if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS or
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS enabled.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251103063434.47388-1-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn/

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: fprobe: optimization for entry only case</title>
<updated>2025-11-11T13:32:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-15T08:32:37+00:00</published>
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For now, fgraph is used for the fprobe, even if we need trace the entry
only. However, the performance of ftrace is better than fgraph, and we
can use ftrace_ops for this case.

Then performance of kprobe-multi increases from 54M to 69M. Before this
commit:

  $ ./benchs/run_bench_trigger.sh kprobe-multi
  kprobe-multi   :   54.663 ± 0.493M/s

After this commit:

  $ ./benchs/run_bench_trigger.sh kprobe-multi
  kprobe-multi   :   69.447 ± 0.143M/s

Mitigation is disable during the bench testing above.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251015083238.2374294-2-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn/

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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For now, fgraph is used for the fprobe, even if we need trace the entry
only. However, the performance of ftrace is better than fgraph, and we
can use ftrace_ops for this case.

Then performance of kprobe-multi increases from 54M to 69M. Before this
commit:

  $ ./benchs/run_bench_trigger.sh kprobe-multi
  kprobe-multi   :   54.663 ± 0.493M/s

After this commit:

  $ ./benchs/run_bench_trigger.sh kprobe-multi
  kprobe-multi   :   69.447 ± 0.143M/s

Mitigation is disable during the bench testing above.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251015083238.2374294-2-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn/

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: fprobe: Fix to init fprobe_ip_table earlier</title>
<updated>2025-11-11T13:32:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T08:39:04+00:00</published>
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Since the fprobe_ip_table is used from module unloading in
the failure path of load_module(), it must be initialized in
the earlier timing than late_initcall(). Unless that, the
fprobe_module_callback() will use an uninitialized spinlock of
fprobe_ip_table.

Initialize fprobe_ip_table in core_initcall which is the same
timing as ftrace.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/175939434403.3665022.13030530757238556332.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202509301440.be4b3631-lkp@intel.com
Fixes: e5a4cc28a052 ("tracing: fprobe: use rhltable for fprobe_ip_table")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Menglong Dong &lt;menglong8.dong@gmail.com&gt;
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Since the fprobe_ip_table is used from module unloading in
the failure path of load_module(), it must be initialized in
the earlier timing than late_initcall(). Unless that, the
fprobe_module_callback() will use an uninitialized spinlock of
fprobe_ip_table.

Initialize fprobe_ip_table in core_initcall which is the same
timing as ftrace.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/175939434403.3665022.13030530757238556332.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202509301440.be4b3631-lkp@intel.com
Fixes: e5a4cc28a052 ("tracing: fprobe: use rhltable for fprobe_ip_table")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Menglong Dong &lt;menglong8.dong@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: fprobe: Remove unused local variable</title>
<updated>2025-10-31T16:10:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-25T00:56:49+00:00</published>
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The 'ret' local variable in fprobe_remove_node_in_module() was used
for checking the error state in the loop, but commit dfe0d675df82
("tracing: fprobe: use rhltable for fprobe_ip_table") removed the loop.
So we don't need it anymore.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/175867358989.600222.6175459620045800878.stgit@devnote2/

Fixes: e5a4cc28a052 ("tracing: fprobe: use rhltable for fprobe_ip_table")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Menglong Dong &lt;menglong8.dong@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
The 'ret' local variable in fprobe_remove_node_in_module() was used
for checking the error state in the loop, but commit dfe0d675df82
("tracing: fprobe: use rhltable for fprobe_ip_table") removed the loop.
So we don't need it anymore.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/175867358989.600222.6175459620045800878.stgit@devnote2/

Fixes: e5a4cc28a052 ("tracing: fprobe: use rhltable for fprobe_ip_table")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Menglong Dong &lt;menglong8.dong@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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