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<title>ftrace: Fix potential warning in trace_printk_seq during ftrace_dump</title>
<updated>2025-09-04T14:55:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tengda Wu</name>
<email>wutengda@huaweicloud.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-22T03:33:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4013aef2ced9b756a410f50d12df9ebe6a883e4a ]

When calling ftrace_dump_one() concurrently with reading trace_pipe,
a WARN_ON_ONCE() in trace_printk_seq() can be triggered due to a race
condition.

The issue occurs because:

CPU0 (ftrace_dump)                              CPU1 (reader)
echo z &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger

!trace_empty(&amp;iter)
trace_iterator_reset(&amp;iter) &lt;- len = size = 0
                                                cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
trace_find_next_entry_inc(&amp;iter)
  __find_next_entry
    ring_buffer_empty_cpu &lt;- all empty
  return NULL

trace_printk_seq(&amp;iter.seq)
  WARN_ON_ONCE(s-&gt;seq.len &gt;= s-&gt;seq.size)

In the context between trace_empty() and trace_find_next_entry_inc()
during ftrace_dump, the ring buffer data was consumed by other readers.
This caused trace_find_next_entry_inc to return NULL, failing to populate
`iter.seq`. At this point, due to the prior trace_iterator_reset, both
`iter.seq.len` and `iter.seq.size` were set to 0. Since they are equal,
the WARN_ON_ONCE condition is triggered.

Move the trace_printk_seq() into the if block that checks to make sure the
return value of trace_find_next_entry_inc() is non-NULL in
ftrace_dump_one(), ensuring the 'iter.seq' is properly populated before
subsequent operations.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250822033343.3000289-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: d769041f8653 ("ring_buffer: implement new locking")
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu &lt;wutengda@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4013aef2ced9b756a410f50d12df9ebe6a883e4a ]

When calling ftrace_dump_one() concurrently with reading trace_pipe,
a WARN_ON_ONCE() in trace_printk_seq() can be triggered due to a race
condition.

The issue occurs because:

CPU0 (ftrace_dump)                              CPU1 (reader)
echo z &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger

!trace_empty(&amp;iter)
trace_iterator_reset(&amp;iter) &lt;- len = size = 0
                                                cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
trace_find_next_entry_inc(&amp;iter)
  __find_next_entry
    ring_buffer_empty_cpu &lt;- all empty
  return NULL

trace_printk_seq(&amp;iter.seq)
  WARN_ON_ONCE(s-&gt;seq.len &gt;= s-&gt;seq.size)

In the context between trace_empty() and trace_find_next_entry_inc()
during ftrace_dump, the ring buffer data was consumed by other readers.
This caused trace_find_next_entry_inc to return NULL, failing to populate
`iter.seq`. At this point, due to the prior trace_iterator_reset, both
`iter.seq.len` and `iter.seq.size` were set to 0. Since they are equal,
the WARN_ON_ONCE condition is triggered.

Move the trace_printk_seq() into the if block that checks to make sure the
return value of trace_find_next_entry_inc() is non-NULL in
ftrace_dump_one(), ensuring the 'iter.seq' is properly populated before
subsequent operations.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250822033343.3000289-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: d769041f8653 ("ring_buffer: implement new locking")
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu &lt;wutengda@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Limit access to parser-&gt;buffer when trace_get_user failed</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T14:34:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pu Lehui</name>
<email>pulehui@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-24T01:01:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6a909ea83f226803ea0e718f6e88613df9234d58 ]

When the length of the string written to set_ftrace_filter exceeds
FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, the following KASAN alarm will be triggered:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in strsep+0x18c/0x1b0
Read of size 1 at addr ffff0000d00bd5ba by task ash/165

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 165 Comm: ash Not tainted 6.16.0-g6bcdbd62bd56-dirty
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
 show_stack+0x34/0x50 (C)
 dump_stack_lvl+0xa0/0x158
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x88/0x398
 print_report+0xb0/0x280
 kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0
 __asan_report_load1_noabort+0x20/0x30
 strsep+0x18c/0x1b0
 ftrace_process_regex.isra.0+0x100/0x2d8
 ftrace_regex_release+0x484/0x618
 __fput+0x364/0xa58
 ____fput+0x28/0x40
 task_work_run+0x154/0x278
 do_notify_resume+0x1f0/0x220
 el0_svc+0xec/0xf0
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
 el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0

The reason is that trace_get_user will fail when processing a string
longer than FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, but not set the end of parser-&gt;buffer to 0.
Then an OOB access will be triggered in ftrace_regex_release-&gt;
ftrace_process_regex-&gt;strsep-&gt;strpbrk. We can solve this problem by
limiting access to parser-&gt;buffer when trace_get_user failed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250813040232.1344527-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 8c9af478c06b ("ftrace: Handle commands when closing set_ftrace_filter file")
Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui &lt;pulehui@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6a909ea83f226803ea0e718f6e88613df9234d58 ]

When the length of the string written to set_ftrace_filter exceeds
FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, the following KASAN alarm will be triggered:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in strsep+0x18c/0x1b0
Read of size 1 at addr ffff0000d00bd5ba by task ash/165

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 165 Comm: ash Not tainted 6.16.0-g6bcdbd62bd56-dirty
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
 show_stack+0x34/0x50 (C)
 dump_stack_lvl+0xa0/0x158
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x88/0x398
 print_report+0xb0/0x280
 kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0
 __asan_report_load1_noabort+0x20/0x30
 strsep+0x18c/0x1b0
 ftrace_process_regex.isra.0+0x100/0x2d8
 ftrace_regex_release+0x484/0x618
 __fput+0x364/0xa58
 ____fput+0x28/0x40
 task_work_run+0x154/0x278
 do_notify_resume+0x1f0/0x220
 el0_svc+0xec/0xf0
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
 el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0

The reason is that trace_get_user will fail when processing a string
longer than FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, but not set the end of parser-&gt;buffer to 0.
Then an OOB access will be triggered in ftrace_regex_release-&gt;
ftrace_process_regex-&gt;strsep-&gt;strpbrk. We can solve this problem by
limiting access to parser-&gt;buffer when trace_get_user failed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250813040232.1344527-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 8c9af478c06b ("ftrace: Handle commands when closing set_ftrace_filter file")
Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui &lt;pulehui@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove unneeded goto out logic</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T14:34:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-24T01:01:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c89504a703fb779052213add0e8ed642f4a4f1c8 ]

Several places in the trace.c file there's a goto out where the out is
simply a return. There's no reason to jump to the out label if it's not
doing any more logic but simply returning from the function.

Replace the goto outs with a return and remove the out labels.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250801203857.538726745@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 6a909ea83f22 ("tracing: Limit access to parser-&gt;buffer when trace_get_user failed")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c89504a703fb779052213add0e8ed642f4a4f1c8 ]

Several places in the trace.c file there's a goto out where the out is
simply a return. There's no reason to jump to the out label if it's not
doing any more logic but simply returning from the function.

Replace the goto outs with a return and remove the out labels.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250801203857.538726745@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 6a909ea83f22 ("tracing: Limit access to parser-&gt;buffer when trace_get_user failed")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Remove ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync()</title>
<updated>2025-08-15T14:38:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-30T22:04:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 119a5d573622ae90ba730d18acfae9bb75d77b9a ]

When the ring buffer was first introduced, reading the non-consuming
"trace" file required disabling the writing of the ring buffer. To make
sure the writing was fully disabled before iterating the buffer with a
non-consuming read, it would set the disable flag of the buffer and then
call an RCU synchronization to make sure all the buffers were
synchronized.

The function ring_buffer_read_start() originally  would initialize the
iterator and call an RCU synchronization, but this was for each individual
per CPU buffer where this would get called many times on a machine with
many CPUs before the trace file could be read. The commit 72c9ddfd4c5bf
("ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.")
separated ring_buffer_read_start into ring_buffer_read_prepare(),
ring_buffer_read_sync() and then ring_buffer_read_start() to allow each of
the per CPU buffers to be prepared, call the read_buffer_read_sync() once,
and then the ring_buffer_read_start() for each of the CPUs which made
things much faster.

The commit 1039221cc278 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there
is an iterator") removed the requirement of disabling the recording of the
ring buffer in order to iterate it, but it did not remove the
synchronization that was happening that was required to wait for all the
buffers to have no more writers. It's now OK for the buffers to have
writers and no synchronization is needed.

Remove the synchronization and put back the interface for the ring buffer
iterator back before commit 72c9ddfd4c5bf was applied.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630180440.3eabb514@batman.local.home
Reported-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 1039221cc278 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator")
Tested-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 119a5d573622ae90ba730d18acfae9bb75d77b9a ]

When the ring buffer was first introduced, reading the non-consuming
"trace" file required disabling the writing of the ring buffer. To make
sure the writing was fully disabled before iterating the buffer with a
non-consuming read, it would set the disable flag of the buffer and then
call an RCU synchronization to make sure all the buffers were
synchronized.

The function ring_buffer_read_start() originally  would initialize the
iterator and call an RCU synchronization, but this was for each individual
per CPU buffer where this would get called many times on a machine with
many CPUs before the trace file could be read. The commit 72c9ddfd4c5bf
("ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.")
separated ring_buffer_read_start into ring_buffer_read_prepare(),
ring_buffer_read_sync() and then ring_buffer_read_start() to allow each of
the per CPU buffers to be prepared, call the read_buffer_read_sync() once,
and then the ring_buffer_read_start() for each of the CPUs which made
things much faster.

The commit 1039221cc278 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there
is an iterator") removed the requirement of disabling the recording of the
ring buffer in order to iterate it, but it did not remove the
synchronization that was happening that was required to wait for all the
buffers to have no more writers. It's now OK for the buffers to have
writers and no synchronization is needed.

Remove the synchronization and put back the interface for the ring buffer
iterator back before commit 72c9ddfd4c5bf was applied.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630180440.3eabb514@batman.local.home
Reported-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 1039221cc278 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator")
Tested-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-05-31T04:20:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-31T04:20:11+00:00</published>
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Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Allow the persistent ring buffer to be memory mapped

   In the last merge window there was issues with the implementation of
   mapping the persistent ring buffer because it was assumed that the
   persistent memory was just physical memory without being part of the
   kernel virtual address space. But this was incorrect and the
   persistent ring buffer can be mapped the same way as the allocated
   ring buffer is mapped.

   The metadata for the persistent ring buffer is different than the
   normal ring buffer and the organization of mapping it to user space
   is a little different. Make the updates needed to the meta data to
   allow the persistent ring buffer to be mapped to user space.

 - Fix cpus_read_lock() with buffer-&gt;mutex and cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock

   Mapping the ring buffer to user space uses the
   cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock. The buffer-&gt;mutex can be taken when the
   mapping_lock is held, giving the locking order of:
   cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock --&gt;&gt; buffer-&gt;mutex. But there also exists
   the ordering:

       buffer-&gt;mutex --&gt;&gt; cpus_read_lock()
       mm-&gt;mmap_lock --&gt;&gt; cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock
       cpus_read_lock() --&gt;&gt; mm-&gt;mmap_lock

   causing a circular chain of:

       cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock -&gt; buffer-&gt;mutex --&gt;&gt; cpus_read_lock() --&gt;&gt;
          mm-&gt;mmap_lock --&gt;&gt; cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock

   By moving the cpus_read_lock() outside the buffer-&gt;mutex where:
   cpus_read_lock() --&gt;&gt; buffer-&gt;mutex, breaks the deadlock chain.

 - Do not trigger WARN_ON() for commit overrun

   When the ring buffer is user space mapped and there's a "commit
   overrun" (where an interrupt preempted an event, and then added so
   many events it filled the buffer having to drop events when it hit
   the preempted event) a WARN_ON() was triggered if this was read via a
   memory mapped buffer.

   This is due to "missed events" being non zero when the reader page
   ended up with the commit page. The idea was, if the writer is on the
   reader page, there's only one page that has been written to and there
   should be no missed events.

   But if a commit overrun is done where the writer is off the commit
   page and looped around to the commit page causing missed events, it
   is possible that the reader page is the commit page with missed
   events.

   Instead of triggering a WARN_ON() when the reader page is the commit
   page with missed events, trigger it when the reader page is the
   tail_page with missed events. That's because the writer is always on
   the tail_page if an event was interrupted (which holds the commit
   event) and continues off the commit page.

 - Reset the persistent buffer if it is fully consumed

   On boot up, if the user fully consumes the last boot buffer of the
   persistent buffer, if it reboots without enabling it, there will
   still be events in the buffer which can cause confusion. Instead,
   reset the buffer when it is fully consumed, so that the data is not
   read again.

 - Clean up some goto out jumps

   There's a few cases that the code jumps to the "out:" label that
   simply returns a value. There used to be more work done at those
   labels but now that they simply return a value use a return instead
   of jumping to a label.

 - Use guard() to simplify some of the code

   Add guard() around some locking instead of jumping to a label to do
   the unlocking.

 - Use free() to simplify some of the code

   Use free(kfree) on variables that will get freed on error and use
   return_ptr() to return the variable when its not freed. There's one
   instance where free(kfree) simplifies the code on a temp variable
   that was allocated just for the function use.

* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Simplify functions with __free(kfree) to free allocations
  ring-buffer: Make ring_buffer_{un}map() simpler with guard(mutex)
  ring-buffer: Simplify ring_buffer_read_page() with guard()
  ring-buffer: Simplify reset_disabled_cpu_buffer() with use of guard()
  ring-buffer: Remove jump to out label in ring_buffer_swap_cpu()
  ring-buffer: Removed unnecessary if() goto out where out is the next line
  tracing: Reset last-boot buffers when reading out all cpu buffers
  ring-buffer: Allow reserve_mem persistent ring buffers to be mmapped
  ring-buffer: Do not trigger WARN_ON() due to a commit_overrun
  ring-buffer: Move cpus_read_lock() outside of buffer-&gt;mutex
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Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Allow the persistent ring buffer to be memory mapped

   In the last merge window there was issues with the implementation of
   mapping the persistent ring buffer because it was assumed that the
   persistent memory was just physical memory without being part of the
   kernel virtual address space. But this was incorrect and the
   persistent ring buffer can be mapped the same way as the allocated
   ring buffer is mapped.

   The metadata for the persistent ring buffer is different than the
   normal ring buffer and the organization of mapping it to user space
   is a little different. Make the updates needed to the meta data to
   allow the persistent ring buffer to be mapped to user space.

 - Fix cpus_read_lock() with buffer-&gt;mutex and cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock

   Mapping the ring buffer to user space uses the
   cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock. The buffer-&gt;mutex can be taken when the
   mapping_lock is held, giving the locking order of:
   cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock --&gt;&gt; buffer-&gt;mutex. But there also exists
   the ordering:

       buffer-&gt;mutex --&gt;&gt; cpus_read_lock()
       mm-&gt;mmap_lock --&gt;&gt; cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock
       cpus_read_lock() --&gt;&gt; mm-&gt;mmap_lock

   causing a circular chain of:

       cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock -&gt; buffer-&gt;mutex --&gt;&gt; cpus_read_lock() --&gt;&gt;
          mm-&gt;mmap_lock --&gt;&gt; cpu_buffer-&gt;mapping_lock

   By moving the cpus_read_lock() outside the buffer-&gt;mutex where:
   cpus_read_lock() --&gt;&gt; buffer-&gt;mutex, breaks the deadlock chain.

 - Do not trigger WARN_ON() for commit overrun

   When the ring buffer is user space mapped and there's a "commit
   overrun" (where an interrupt preempted an event, and then added so
   many events it filled the buffer having to drop events when it hit
   the preempted event) a WARN_ON() was triggered if this was read via a
   memory mapped buffer.

   This is due to "missed events" being non zero when the reader page
   ended up with the commit page. The idea was, if the writer is on the
   reader page, there's only one page that has been written to and there
   should be no missed events.

   But if a commit overrun is done where the writer is off the commit
   page and looped around to the commit page causing missed events, it
   is possible that the reader page is the commit page with missed
   events.

   Instead of triggering a WARN_ON() when the reader page is the commit
   page with missed events, trigger it when the reader page is the
   tail_page with missed events. That's because the writer is always on
   the tail_page if an event was interrupted (which holds the commit
   event) and continues off the commit page.

 - Reset the persistent buffer if it is fully consumed

   On boot up, if the user fully consumes the last boot buffer of the
   persistent buffer, if it reboots without enabling it, there will
   still be events in the buffer which can cause confusion. Instead,
   reset the buffer when it is fully consumed, so that the data is not
   read again.

 - Clean up some goto out jumps

   There's a few cases that the code jumps to the "out:" label that
   simply returns a value. There used to be more work done at those
   labels but now that they simply return a value use a return instead
   of jumping to a label.

 - Use guard() to simplify some of the code

   Add guard() around some locking instead of jumping to a label to do
   the unlocking.

 - Use free() to simplify some of the code

   Use free(kfree) on variables that will get freed on error and use
   return_ptr() to return the variable when its not freed. There's one
   instance where free(kfree) simplifies the code on a temp variable
   that was allocated just for the function use.

* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Simplify functions with __free(kfree) to free allocations
  ring-buffer: Make ring_buffer_{un}map() simpler with guard(mutex)
  ring-buffer: Simplify ring_buffer_read_page() with guard()
  ring-buffer: Simplify reset_disabled_cpu_buffer() with use of guard()
  ring-buffer: Remove jump to out label in ring_buffer_swap_cpu()
  ring-buffer: Removed unnecessary if() goto out where out is the next line
  tracing: Reset last-boot buffers when reading out all cpu buffers
  ring-buffer: Allow reserve_mem persistent ring buffers to be mmapped
  ring-buffer: Do not trigger WARN_ON() due to a commit_overrun
  ring-buffer: Move cpus_read_lock() outside of buffer-&gt;mutex
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-automount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-30T22:38:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-30T22:38:29+00:00</published>
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Pull automount updates from Al Viro:
 "Automount wart removal

  A bunch of odd boilerplate gone from instances - the reason for
  those was the need to protect the yet-to-be-attched mount from
  mark_mounts_for_expiry() deciding to take it out.

  But that's easy to detect and take care of in mark_mounts_for_expiry()
  itself; no need to have every instance simulate mount being busy by
  grabbing an extra reference to it, with finish_automount() undoing
  that once it attaches that mount.

  Should've done it that way from the very beginning... This is a
  flagday change, thankfully there are very few instances.

  vfs_submount() is gone - its sole remaining user (trace_automount)
  had been switched to saner primitives"

* tag 'pull-automount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  kill vfs_submount()
  saner calling conventions for -&gt;d_automount()
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<pre>
Pull automount updates from Al Viro:
 "Automount wart removal

  A bunch of odd boilerplate gone from instances - the reason for
  those was the need to protect the yet-to-be-attched mount from
  mark_mounts_for_expiry() deciding to take it out.

  But that's easy to detect and take care of in mark_mounts_for_expiry()
  itself; no need to have every instance simulate mount being busy by
  grabbing an extra reference to it, with finish_automount() undoing
  that once it attaches that mount.

  Should've done it that way from the very beginning... This is a
  flagday change, thankfully there are very few instances.

  vfs_submount() is gone - its sole remaining user (trace_automount)
  had been switched to saner primitives"

* tag 'pull-automount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  kill vfs_submount()
  saner calling conventions for -&gt;d_automount()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-05-30T04:04:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-30T04:04:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b78f1293f90642ff9809935aa9df7b964e0f17ba'/>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Have module addresses get updated in the persistent ring buffer

   The addresses of the modules from the previous boot are saved in the
   persistent ring buffer. If the same modules are loaded and an address
   is in the old buffer points to an address that was both saved in the
   persistent ring buffer and is loaded in memory, shift the address to
   point to the address that is loaded in memory in the trace event.

 - Print function names for irqs off and preempt off callsites

   When ignoring the print fmt of a trace event and just printing the
   fields directly, have the fields for preempt off and irqs off events
   still show the function name (via kallsyms) instead of just showing
   the raw address.

 - Clean ups of the histogram code

   The histogram functions saved over 800 bytes on the stack to process
   events as they come in. Instead, create per-cpu buffers that can hold
   this information and have a separate location for each context level
   (thread, softirq, IRQ and NMI).

   Also add some more comments to the code.

 - Add "common_comm" field for histograms

   Add "common_comm" that uses the current-&gt;comm as a field in an event
   histogram and acts like any of the other fields of the event.

 - Show "subops" in the enabled_functions file

   When the function graph infrastructure is used, a subsystem has a
   "subops" that it attaches its callback function to. Instead of the
   enabled_functions just showing a function calling the function that
   calls the subops functions, also show the subops functions that will
   get called for that function too.

 - Add "copy_trace_marker" option to instances

   There are cases where an instance is created for tooling to write
   into, but the old tooling has the top level instance hardcoded into
   the application. New tools want to consume the data from an instance
   and not the top level buffer. By adding a copy_trace_marker option,
   whenever the top instance trace_marker is written into, a copy of it
   is also written into the instance with this option set. This allows
   new tools to read what old tools are writing into the top buffer.

   If this option is cleared by the top instance, then what is written
   into the trace_marker is not written into the top instance. This is a
   way to redirect the trace_marker writes into another instance.

 - Have tracepoints created by DECLARE_TRACE() use trace_&lt;name&gt;_tp()

   If a tracepoint is created by DECLARE_TRACE() instead of
   TRACE_EVENT(), then it will not be exposed via tracefs. Currently
   there's no way to differentiate in the kernel the tracepoint
   functions between those that are exposed via tracefs or not. A
   calling convention has been made manually to append a "_tp" prefix
   for events created by DECLARE_TRACE(). Instead of doing this
   manually, force it so that all DECLARE_TRACE() events have this
   notation.

 - Use __string() for task-&gt;comm in some sched events

   Instead of hardcoding the comm to be TASK_COMM_LEN in some of the
   scheduler events use __string() which makes it dynamic. Note, if
   these events are parsed by user space it they may break, and the
   event may have to be converted back to the hardcoded size.

 - Have function graph "depth" be unsigned to the user

   Internally to the kernel, the "depth" field of the function graph
   event is signed due to -1 being used for end of boundary. What
   actually gets recorded in the event itself is zero or positive.
   Reflect this to user space by showing "depth" as unsigned int and be
   consistent across all events.

 - Allow an arbitrary long CPU string to osnoise_cpus_write()

   The filtering of which CPUs to write to can exceed 256 bytes. If a
   machine has 256 CPUs, and the filter is to filter every other CPU,
   the write would take a string larger than 256 bytes. Instead of using
   a fixed size buffer on the stack that is 256 bytes, allocate it to
   handle what is passed in.

 - Stop having ftrace check the per-cpu data "disabled" flag

   The "disabled" flag in the data structure passed to most ftrace
   functions is checked to know if tracing has been disabled or not.
   This flag was added back in 2008 before the ring buffer had its own
   way to disable tracing. The "disable" flag is now not always set when
   needed, and the ring buffer flag should be used in all locations
   where the disabled is needed. Since the "disable" flag is redundant
   and incorrect, stop using it. Fix up some locations that use the
   "disable" flag to use the ring buffer info.

 - Use a new tracer_tracing_disable/enable() instead of data-&gt;disable
   flag

   There's a few cases that set the data-&gt;disable flag to stop tracing,
   but this flag is not consistently used. It is also an on/off switch
   where if a function set it and calls another function that sets it,
   the called function may incorrectly enable it.

   Use a new trace_tracing_disable() and tracer_tracing_enable() that
   uses a counter and can be nested. These use the ring buffer flags
   which are always checked making the disabling more consistent.

 - Save the trace clock in the persistent ring buffer

   Save what clock was used for tracing in the persistent ring buffer
   and set it back to that clock after a reboot.

 - Remove unused reference to a per CPU data pointer in mmiotrace
   functions

 - Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure

 - Remove more strncpy() instances

 - Other minor clean ups and fixes

* tag 'trace-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (36 commits)
  tracing: Fix compilation warning on arm32
  tracing: Record trace_clock and recover when reboot
  tracing/sched: Use __string() instead of fixed lengths for task-&gt;comm
  tracepoint: Have tracepoints created with DECLARE_TRACE() have _tp suffix
  tracing: Cleanup upper_empty() in pid_list
  tracing: Allow the top level trace_marker to write into another instances
  tracing: Add a helper function to handle the dereference arg in verifier
  tracing: Remove unnecessary "goto out" that simply returns ret is trigger code
  tracing: Fix error handling in event_trigger_parse()
  tracing: Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc()
  tracing: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy() for stack_trace_filter_buf
  tracing: Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure
  tracing: Use atomic_inc_return() for updating "disabled" counter in irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Convert the per CPU "disabled" counter to local from atomic
  tracing: branch: Use trace_tracing_is_on_cpu() instead of "disabled" field
  ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu()
  tracing: Do not use per CPU array_buffer.data-&gt;disabled for cpumask
  ftrace: Do not disabled function graph based on "disabled" field
  tracing: kdb: Use tracer_tracing_on/off() instead of setting per CPU disabled
  tracing: Use tracer_tracing_disable() instead of "disabled" field for ftrace_dump_one()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Have module addresses get updated in the persistent ring buffer

   The addresses of the modules from the previous boot are saved in the
   persistent ring buffer. If the same modules are loaded and an address
   is in the old buffer points to an address that was both saved in the
   persistent ring buffer and is loaded in memory, shift the address to
   point to the address that is loaded in memory in the trace event.

 - Print function names for irqs off and preempt off callsites

   When ignoring the print fmt of a trace event and just printing the
   fields directly, have the fields for preempt off and irqs off events
   still show the function name (via kallsyms) instead of just showing
   the raw address.

 - Clean ups of the histogram code

   The histogram functions saved over 800 bytes on the stack to process
   events as they come in. Instead, create per-cpu buffers that can hold
   this information and have a separate location for each context level
   (thread, softirq, IRQ and NMI).

   Also add some more comments to the code.

 - Add "common_comm" field for histograms

   Add "common_comm" that uses the current-&gt;comm as a field in an event
   histogram and acts like any of the other fields of the event.

 - Show "subops" in the enabled_functions file

   When the function graph infrastructure is used, a subsystem has a
   "subops" that it attaches its callback function to. Instead of the
   enabled_functions just showing a function calling the function that
   calls the subops functions, also show the subops functions that will
   get called for that function too.

 - Add "copy_trace_marker" option to instances

   There are cases where an instance is created for tooling to write
   into, but the old tooling has the top level instance hardcoded into
   the application. New tools want to consume the data from an instance
   and not the top level buffer. By adding a copy_trace_marker option,
   whenever the top instance trace_marker is written into, a copy of it
   is also written into the instance with this option set. This allows
   new tools to read what old tools are writing into the top buffer.

   If this option is cleared by the top instance, then what is written
   into the trace_marker is not written into the top instance. This is a
   way to redirect the trace_marker writes into another instance.

 - Have tracepoints created by DECLARE_TRACE() use trace_&lt;name&gt;_tp()

   If a tracepoint is created by DECLARE_TRACE() instead of
   TRACE_EVENT(), then it will not be exposed via tracefs. Currently
   there's no way to differentiate in the kernel the tracepoint
   functions between those that are exposed via tracefs or not. A
   calling convention has been made manually to append a "_tp" prefix
   for events created by DECLARE_TRACE(). Instead of doing this
   manually, force it so that all DECLARE_TRACE() events have this
   notation.

 - Use __string() for task-&gt;comm in some sched events

   Instead of hardcoding the comm to be TASK_COMM_LEN in some of the
   scheduler events use __string() which makes it dynamic. Note, if
   these events are parsed by user space it they may break, and the
   event may have to be converted back to the hardcoded size.

 - Have function graph "depth" be unsigned to the user

   Internally to the kernel, the "depth" field of the function graph
   event is signed due to -1 being used for end of boundary. What
   actually gets recorded in the event itself is zero or positive.
   Reflect this to user space by showing "depth" as unsigned int and be
   consistent across all events.

 - Allow an arbitrary long CPU string to osnoise_cpus_write()

   The filtering of which CPUs to write to can exceed 256 bytes. If a
   machine has 256 CPUs, and the filter is to filter every other CPU,
   the write would take a string larger than 256 bytes. Instead of using
   a fixed size buffer on the stack that is 256 bytes, allocate it to
   handle what is passed in.

 - Stop having ftrace check the per-cpu data "disabled" flag

   The "disabled" flag in the data structure passed to most ftrace
   functions is checked to know if tracing has been disabled or not.
   This flag was added back in 2008 before the ring buffer had its own
   way to disable tracing. The "disable" flag is now not always set when
   needed, and the ring buffer flag should be used in all locations
   where the disabled is needed. Since the "disable" flag is redundant
   and incorrect, stop using it. Fix up some locations that use the
   "disable" flag to use the ring buffer info.

 - Use a new tracer_tracing_disable/enable() instead of data-&gt;disable
   flag

   There's a few cases that set the data-&gt;disable flag to stop tracing,
   but this flag is not consistently used. It is also an on/off switch
   where if a function set it and calls another function that sets it,
   the called function may incorrectly enable it.

   Use a new trace_tracing_disable() and tracer_tracing_enable() that
   uses a counter and can be nested. These use the ring buffer flags
   which are always checked making the disabling more consistent.

 - Save the trace clock in the persistent ring buffer

   Save what clock was used for tracing in the persistent ring buffer
   and set it back to that clock after a reboot.

 - Remove unused reference to a per CPU data pointer in mmiotrace
   functions

 - Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure

 - Remove more strncpy() instances

 - Other minor clean ups and fixes

* tag 'trace-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (36 commits)
  tracing: Fix compilation warning on arm32
  tracing: Record trace_clock and recover when reboot
  tracing/sched: Use __string() instead of fixed lengths for task-&gt;comm
  tracepoint: Have tracepoints created with DECLARE_TRACE() have _tp suffix
  tracing: Cleanup upper_empty() in pid_list
  tracing: Allow the top level trace_marker to write into another instances
  tracing: Add a helper function to handle the dereference arg in verifier
  tracing: Remove unnecessary "goto out" that simply returns ret is trigger code
  tracing: Fix error handling in event_trigger_parse()
  tracing: Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc()
  tracing: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy() for stack_trace_filter_buf
  tracing: Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure
  tracing: Use atomic_inc_return() for updating "disabled" counter in irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Convert the per CPU "disabled" counter to local from atomic
  tracing: branch: Use trace_tracing_is_on_cpu() instead of "disabled" field
  ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu()
  tracing: Do not use per CPU array_buffer.data-&gt;disabled for cpumask
  ftrace: Do not disabled function graph based on "disabled" field
  tracing: kdb: Use tracer_tracing_on/off() instead of setting per CPU disabled
  tracing: Use tracer_tracing_disable() instead of "disabled" field for ftrace_dump_one()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Reset last-boot buffers when reading out all cpu buffers</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T12:24:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-22T15:54:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=32dc0042528d385d83bf458e4cf3a49c5110afea'/>
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Reset the last-boot ring buffers when read() reads out all cpu
buffers through trace_pipe/trace_pipe_raw. This prevents ftrace to
unwind ring buffer read pointer next boot.

Note that this resets only when all per-cpu buffers are empty, and
read via read(2) syscall. For example, if you read only one of the
per-cpu trace_pipe, it does not reset it. Also, reading buffer by
splice(2) syscall does not reset because some data in the reader
(the last) page.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/174792929202.496143.8184644221859580999.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
Reset the last-boot ring buffers when read() reads out all cpu
buffers through trace_pipe/trace_pipe_raw. This prevents ftrace to
unwind ring buffer read pointer next boot.

Note that this resets only when all per-cpu buffers are empty, and
read via read(2) syscall. For example, if you read only one of the
per-cpu trace_pipe, it does not reset it. Also, reading buffer by
splice(2) syscall does not reset because some data in the reader
(the last) page.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/174792929202.496143.8184644221859580999.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Allow reserve_mem persistent ring buffers to be mmapped</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T12:24:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T20:25:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c2a08311427cc8c5c547e5d700cb2f93d63fcb2a'/>
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When the persistent ring buffer is created from the memory returned by
reserve_mem there is nothing prohibiting it to be memory mapped to user
space. The memory is the same as the pages allocated by alloc_page().

The way the memory is managed by the ring buffer code is slightly
different though and needs to be addressed.

The persistent memory uses the page-&gt;id for its own purpose where as the
user mmap buffer currently uses that for the subbuf array mapped to user
space. If the buffer is a persistent buffer, use the page index into that
buffer as the identifier instead of the page-&gt;id.

That is, the page-&gt;id for a persistent buffer, represents the order of the
buffer is in the link list. -&gt;id == 0 means it is the reader page.
When a reader page is swapped, the new reader page's -&gt;id gets zero, and
the old reader page gets the -&gt;id of the page that it swapped with.

The user space mapping has the -&gt;id is the index of where it was mapped in
user space and does not change while it is mapped.

Since the persistent buffer is fixed in its location, the index of where
a page is in the memory range can be used as the "id" to put in the meta
page array, and it can be mapped in the same order to user space as it is
in the persistent memory.

A new rb_page_id() helper function is used to get and set the id depending
on if the page is a normal memory allocated buffer or a physical memory
mapped buffer.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250401203332.246646011@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
When the persistent ring buffer is created from the memory returned by
reserve_mem there is nothing prohibiting it to be memory mapped to user
space. The memory is the same as the pages allocated by alloc_page().

The way the memory is managed by the ring buffer code is slightly
different though and needs to be addressed.

The persistent memory uses the page-&gt;id for its own purpose where as the
user mmap buffer currently uses that for the subbuf array mapped to user
space. If the buffer is a persistent buffer, use the page index into that
buffer as the identifier instead of the page-&gt;id.

That is, the page-&gt;id for a persistent buffer, represents the order of the
buffer is in the link list. -&gt;id == 0 means it is the reader page.
When a reader page is swapped, the new reader page's -&gt;id gets zero, and
the old reader page gets the -&gt;id of the page that it swapped with.

The user space mapping has the -&gt;id is the index of where it was mapped in
user space and does not change while it is mapped.

Since the persistent buffer is fixed in its location, the index of where
a page is in the memory range can be used as the "id" to put in the meta
page array, and it can be mapped in the same order to user space as it is
in the persistent memory.

A new rb_page_id() helper function is used to get and set the id depending
on if the page is a normal memory allocated buffer or a physical memory
mapped buffer.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250401203332.246646011@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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<title>tracing: Fix compilation warning on arm32</title>
<updated>2025-05-28T20:10:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pan Taixi</name>
<email>pantaixi@huaweicloud.com</email>
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<published>2025-05-26T01:37:31+00:00</published>
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On arm32, size_t is defined to be unsigned int, while PAGE_SIZE is
unsigned long. This hence triggers a compilation warning as min()
asserts the type of two operands to be equal. Casting PAGE_SIZE to size_t
solves this issue and works on other target architectures as well.

Compilation warning details:

kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_splice_read_pipe':
./include/linux/minmax.h:20:28: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
  (!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
                            ^
./include/linux/minmax.h:26:4: note: in expansion of macro '__typecheck'
   (__typecheck(x, y) &amp;&amp; __no_side_effects(x, y))
    ^~~~~~~~~~~

...

kernel/trace/trace.c:6771:8: note: in expansion of macro 'min'
        min((size_t)trace_seq_used(&amp;iter-&gt;seq),
        ^~~

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250526013731.1198030-1-pantaixi@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: f5178c41bb43 ("tracing: Fix oob write in trace_seq_to_buffer()")
Reviewed-by: Jeongjun Park &lt;aha310510@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pan Taixi &lt;pantaixi@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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On arm32, size_t is defined to be unsigned int, while PAGE_SIZE is
unsigned long. This hence triggers a compilation warning as min()
asserts the type of two operands to be equal. Casting PAGE_SIZE to size_t
solves this issue and works on other target architectures as well.

Compilation warning details:

kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_splice_read_pipe':
./include/linux/minmax.h:20:28: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
  (!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
                            ^
./include/linux/minmax.h:26:4: note: in expansion of macro '__typecheck'
   (__typecheck(x, y) &amp;&amp; __no_side_effects(x, y))
    ^~~~~~~~~~~

...

kernel/trace/trace.c:6771:8: note: in expansion of macro 'min'
        min((size_t)trace_seq_used(&amp;iter-&gt;seq),
        ^~~

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250526013731.1198030-1-pantaixi@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: f5178c41bb43 ("tracing: Fix oob write in trace_seq_to_buffer()")
Reviewed-by: Jeongjun Park &lt;aha310510@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pan Taixi &lt;pantaixi@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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