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<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>
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<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: fprobe-event: Sanitize wildcard for fprobe event name</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T14:34:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-16T14:10:51+00:00</published>
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commit ec879e1a0be8007aa232ffedcf6a6445dfc1a3d7 upstream.

Fprobe event accepts wildcards for the target functions, but unless user
specifies its event name, it makes an event with the wildcards.

  /sys/kernel/tracing # echo 'f mutex*' &gt;&gt; dynamic_events
  /sys/kernel/tracing # cat dynamic_events
  f:fprobes/mutex*__entry mutex*
  /sys/kernel/tracing # ls events/fprobes/
  enable         filter         mutex*__entry

To fix this, replace the wildcard ('*') with an underscore.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/175535345114.282990.12294108192847938710.stgit@devnote2/

Fixes: 334e5519c375 ("tracing/probes: Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit.")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ec879e1a0be8007aa232ffedcf6a6445dfc1a3d7 upstream.

Fprobe event accepts wildcards for the target functions, but unless user
specifies its event name, it makes an event with the wildcards.

  /sys/kernel/tracing # echo 'f mutex*' &gt;&gt; dynamic_events
  /sys/kernel/tracing # cat dynamic_events
  f:fprobes/mutex*__entry mutex*
  /sys/kernel/tracing # ls events/fprobes/
  enable         filter         mutex*__entry

To fix this, replace the wildcard ('*') with an underscore.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/175535345114.282990.12294108192847938710.stgit@devnote2/

Fixes: 334e5519c375 ("tracing/probes: Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit.")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Allow the top level trace_marker to write into another instances</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T19:19:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-08T13:56:39+00:00</published>
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There are applications that have it hard coded to write into the top level
trace_marker instance (/sys/kernel/tracing/trace_marker). This can be
annoying if a profiler is using that instance for other work, or if it
needs all writes to go into a new instance.

A new option is created called "copy_trace_marker". By default, the top
level has this set, as that is the default buffer that writing into the
top level trace_marker file will go to. But now if an instance is created
and sets this option, all writes into the top level trace_marker will also
be written into that instance buffer just as if an application were to
write into the instance's trace_marker file.

If the top level instance disables this option, then writes to its own
trace_marker and trace_marker_raw files will not go into its buffer.

If no instance has this option set, then the write will return an error
and errno will contain ENODEV.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250508095639.39f84eda@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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There are applications that have it hard coded to write into the top level
trace_marker instance (/sys/kernel/tracing/trace_marker). This can be
annoying if a profiler is using that instance for other work, or if it
needs all writes to go into a new instance.

A new option is created called "copy_trace_marker". By default, the top
level has this set, as that is the default buffer that writing into the
top level trace_marker file will go to. But now if an instance is created
and sets this option, all writes into the top level trace_marker will also
be written into that instance buffer just as if an application were to
write into the instance's trace_marker file.

If the top level instance disables this option, then writes to its own
trace_marker and trace_marker_raw files will not go into its buffer.

If no instance has this option set, then the write will return an error
and errno will contain ENODEV.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250508095639.39f84eda@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc()</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T19:19:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T14:53:06+00:00</published>
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The function event_trigger_alloc() creates an event_trigger_data
descriptor and states that it needs to be freed via event_trigger_free().
This is incorrect, it needs to be freed by trigger_data_free() as
event_trigger_free() adds ref counting.

Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc() and state that it
needs to be freed via trigger_data_free(). This naming convention
was introducing bugs.

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: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250507145455.776436410@goodmis.org
Fixes: 86599dbe2c527 ("tracing: Add helper functions to simplify event_command.parse() callback handling")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The function event_trigger_alloc() creates an event_trigger_data
descriptor and states that it needs to be freed via event_trigger_free().
This is incorrect, it needs to be freed by trigger_data_free() as
event_trigger_free() adds ref counting.

Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc() and state that it
needs to be freed via trigger_data_free(). This naming convention
was introducing bugs.

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: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250507145455.776436410@goodmis.org
Fixes: 86599dbe2c527 ("tracing: Add helper functions to simplify event_command.parse() callback handling")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T19:19:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T21:21:17+00:00</published>
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The trace_array_cpu had a "buffer_page" field that was originally going to
be used as a backup page for the ring buffer. But the ring buffer has its
own way of reusing pages and this field was never used.

Remove it.

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/20250505212236.738849456@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The trace_array_cpu had a "buffer_page" field that was originally going to
be used as a backup page for the ring buffer. But the ring buffer has its
own way of reusing pages and this field was never used.

Remove it.

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/20250505212236.738849456@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Convert the per CPU "disabled" counter to local from atomic</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T19:19:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T21:21:15+00:00</published>
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The per CPU "disabled" counter is used for the latency tracers and stack
tracers to make sure that their accounting isn't messed up by an NMI or
interrupt coming in and affecting the same CPU data. But the counter is an
atomic_t type. As it only needs to synchronize against the current CPU,
switch it over to local_t type.

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/20250505212236.394925376@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The per CPU "disabled" counter is used for the latency tracers and stack
tracers to make sure that their accounting isn't messed up by an NMI or
interrupt coming in and affecting the same CPU data. But the counter is an
atomic_t type. As it only needs to synchronize against the current CPU,
switch it over to local_t type.

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/20250505212236.394925376@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu()</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T19:19:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T21:21:13+00:00</published>
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Add the function ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu() that returns true if the
ring buffer for a give CPU is writable and false otherwise.

Also add tracer_tracing_is_on_cpu() to return if the ring buffer for a
given CPU is writeable for a given trace_array.

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/20250505212236.059853898@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add the function ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu() that returns true if the
ring buffer for a give CPU is writable and false otherwise.

Also add tracer_tracing_is_on_cpu() to return if the ring buffer for a
given CPU is writeable for a given trace_array.

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/20250505212236.059853898@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Add tracer_tracing_disable/enable() functions</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T19:18:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-05T21:21:08+00:00</published>
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Allow a tracer to disable writing to its buffer for a temporary amount of
time and re-enable it.

The tracer_tracing_disable() will disable writing to the trace array
buffer, and requires a tracer_tracing_enable() to re-enable it.

The difference between tracer_tracing_disable() and tracer_tracing_off()
is that the disable version can nest, and requires as many enable() calls
as disable() calls to re-enable the buffer. Where as the off() function
can be called multiple times and only requires a singe tracer_tracing_on()
to re-enable the buffer.

Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&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: Daniel Thompson &lt;danielt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250505212235.210330010@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Allow a tracer to disable writing to its buffer for a temporary amount of
time and re-enable it.

The tracer_tracing_disable() will disable writing to the trace array
buffer, and requires a tracer_tracing_enable() to re-enable it.

The difference between tracer_tracing_disable() and tracer_tracing_off()
is that the disable version can nest, and requires as many enable() calls
as disable() calls to re-enable the buffer. Where as the off() function
can be called multiple times and only requires a singe tracer_tracing_on()
to re-enable the buffer.

Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&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: Daniel Thompson &lt;danielt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250505212235.210330010@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-04-03T23:09:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-03T23:09:29+00:00</published>
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Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Persistent buffer cleanups and simplifications.

  It was mistaken that the physical memory returned from "reserve_mem"
  had to be vmap()'d to get to it from a virtual address. But
  reserve_mem already maps the memory to the virtual address of the
  kernel so a simple phys_to_virt() can be used to get to the virtual
  address from the physical memory returned by "reserve_mem". With this
  new found knowledge, the code can be cleaned up and simplified.

   - Enforce that the persistent memory is page aligned

     As the buffers using the persistent memory are all going to be
     mapped via pages, make sure that the memory given to the tracing
     infrastructure is page aligned. If it is not, it will print a
     warning and fail to map the buffer.

   - Use phys_to_virt() to get the virtual address from reserve_mem

     Instead of calling vmap() on the physical memory returned from
     "reserve_mem", use phys_to_virt() instead.

     As the memory returned by "memmap" or any other means where a
     physical address is given to the tracing infrastructure, it still
     needs to be vmap(). Since this memory can never be returned back to
     the buddy allocator nor should it ever be memmory mapped to user
     space, flag this buffer and up the ref count. The ref count will
     keep it from ever being freed, and the flag will prevent it from
     ever being memory mapped to user space.

   - Use vmap_page_range() for memmap virtual address mapping

     For the memmap buffer, instead of allocating an array of struct
     pages, assigning them to the contiguous phsycial memory and then
     passing that to vmap(), use vmap_page_range() instead

   - Replace flush_dcache_folio() with flush_kernel_vmap_range()

     Instead of calling virt_to_folio() and passing that to
     flush_dcache_folio(), just call flush_kernel_vmap_range() directly.
     This also fixes a bug where if a subbuffer was bigger than
     PAGE_SIZE only the PAGE_SIZE portion would be flushed"

* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Use flush_kernel_vmap_range() over flush_dcache_folio()
  tracing: Use vmap_page_range() to map memmap ring buffer
  tracing: Have reserve_mem use phys_to_virt() and separate from memmap buffer
  tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned
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Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Persistent buffer cleanups and simplifications.

  It was mistaken that the physical memory returned from "reserve_mem"
  had to be vmap()'d to get to it from a virtual address. But
  reserve_mem already maps the memory to the virtual address of the
  kernel so a simple phys_to_virt() can be used to get to the virtual
  address from the physical memory returned by "reserve_mem". With this
  new found knowledge, the code can be cleaned up and simplified.

   - Enforce that the persistent memory is page aligned

     As the buffers using the persistent memory are all going to be
     mapped via pages, make sure that the memory given to the tracing
     infrastructure is page aligned. If it is not, it will print a
     warning and fail to map the buffer.

   - Use phys_to_virt() to get the virtual address from reserve_mem

     Instead of calling vmap() on the physical memory returned from
     "reserve_mem", use phys_to_virt() instead.

     As the memory returned by "memmap" or any other means where a
     physical address is given to the tracing infrastructure, it still
     needs to be vmap(). Since this memory can never be returned back to
     the buddy allocator nor should it ever be memmory mapped to user
     space, flag this buffer and up the ref count. The ref count will
     keep it from ever being freed, and the flag will prevent it from
     ever being memory mapped to user space.

   - Use vmap_page_range() for memmap virtual address mapping

     For the memmap buffer, instead of allocating an array of struct
     pages, assigning them to the contiguous phsycial memory and then
     passing that to vmap(), use vmap_page_range() instead

   - Replace flush_dcache_folio() with flush_kernel_vmap_range()

     Instead of calling virt_to_folio() and passing that to
     flush_dcache_folio(), just call flush_kernel_vmap_range() directly.
     This also fixes a bug where if a subbuffer was bigger than
     PAGE_SIZE only the PAGE_SIZE portion would be flushed"

* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Use flush_kernel_vmap_range() over flush_dcache_folio()
  tracing: Use vmap_page_range() to map memmap ring buffer
  tracing: Have reserve_mem use phys_to_virt() and separate from memmap buffer
  tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned
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<title>Merge tag 'printk-for-6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux</title>
<updated>2025-04-02T17:05:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-02T17:05:55+00:00</published>
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Pull more printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Silence warnings about candidates for ‘gnu_print’ format attribute

* tag 'printk-for-6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  vsnprintf: Silence false positive GCC warning for va_format()
  vsnprintf: Drop unused const char fmt * in va_format()
  vsnprintf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
  tracing: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
  seq_file: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
  seq_buf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
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Pull more printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Silence warnings about candidates for ‘gnu_print’ format attribute

* tag 'printk-for-6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  vsnprintf: Silence false positive GCC warning for va_format()
  vsnprintf: Drop unused const char fmt * in va_format()
  vsnprintf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
  tracing: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
  seq_file: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
  seq_buf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
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