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<title>ring-buffer: Prevent overflow of size in ring_buffer_resize()</title>
<updated>2016-06-01T19:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2016-05-13T13:34:12+00:00</published>
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commit 59643d1535eb220668692a5359de22545af579f6 upstream.

If the size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is greater than MAX_LONG - BUF_PAGE_SIZE
then the DIV_ROUND_UP() will return zero.

Here's the details:

  # echo 18014398509481980 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb

tracing_entries_write() processes this and converts kb to bytes.

 18014398509481980 &lt;&lt; 10 = 18446744073709547520

and this is passed to ring_buffer_resize() as unsigned long size.

 size = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE);

Where DIV_ROUND_UP(a, b) is (a + b - 1)/b

BUF_PAGE_SIZE is 4080 and here

 18446744073709547520 + 4080 - 1 = 18446744073709551599

where 18446744073709551599 is still smaller than 2^64

 2^64 - 18446744073709551599 = 17

But now 18446744073709551599 / 4080 = 4521260802379792

and size = size * 4080 = 18446744073709551360

This is checked to make sure its still greater than 2 * 4080,
which it is.

Then we convert to the number of buffer pages needed.

 nr_page = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE)

but this time size is 18446744073709551360 and

 2^64 - (18446744073709551360 + 4080 - 1) = -3823

Thus it overflows and the resulting number is less than 4080, which makes

  3823 / 4080 = 0

an nr_pages is set to this. As we already checked against the minimum that
nr_pages may be, this causes the logic to fail as well, and we crash the
kernel.

There's no reason to have the two DIV_ROUND_UP() (that's just result of
historical code changes), clean up the code and fix this bug.

Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 59643d1535eb220668692a5359de22545af579f6 upstream.

If the size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is greater than MAX_LONG - BUF_PAGE_SIZE
then the DIV_ROUND_UP() will return zero.

Here's the details:

  # echo 18014398509481980 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb

tracing_entries_write() processes this and converts kb to bytes.

 18014398509481980 &lt;&lt; 10 = 18446744073709547520

and this is passed to ring_buffer_resize() as unsigned long size.

 size = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE);

Where DIV_ROUND_UP(a, b) is (a + b - 1)/b

BUF_PAGE_SIZE is 4080 and here

 18446744073709547520 + 4080 - 1 = 18446744073709551599

where 18446744073709551599 is still smaller than 2^64

 2^64 - 18446744073709551599 = 17

But now 18446744073709551599 / 4080 = 4521260802379792

and size = size * 4080 = 18446744073709551360

This is checked to make sure its still greater than 2 * 4080,
which it is.

Then we convert to the number of buffer pages needed.

 nr_page = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE)

but this time size is 18446744073709551360 and

 2^64 - (18446744073709551360 + 4080 - 1) = -3823

Thus it overflows and the resulting number is less than 4080, which makes

  3823 / 4080 = 0

an nr_pages is set to this. As we already checked against the minimum that
nr_pages may be, this causes the logic to fail as well, and we crash the
kernel.

There's no reason to have the two DIV_ROUND_UP() (that's just result of
historical code changes), clean up the code and fix this bug.

Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Use long for nr_pages to avoid overflow failures</title>
<updated>2016-06-01T19:16:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-12T15:01:24+00:00</published>
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commit 9b94a8fba501f38368aef6ac1b30e7335252a220 upstream.

The size variable to change the ring buffer in ftrace is a long. The
nr_pages used to update the ring buffer based on the size is int. On 64 bit
machines this can cause an overflow problem.

For example, the following will cause the ring buffer to crash:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo 10 &gt; buffer_size_kb
 # echo 8556384240 &gt; buffer_size_kb

Then you get the warning of:

 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 318 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1527 rb_update_pages+0x22f/0x260

Which is:

  RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, nr_removed);

Note each ring buffer page holds 4080 bytes.

This is because:

 1) 10 causes the ring buffer to have 3 pages.
    (10kb requires 3 * 4080 pages to hold)

 2) (2^31 / 2^10  + 1) * 4080 = 8556384240
    The value written into buffer_size_kb is shifted by 10 and then passed
    to ring_buffer_resize(). 8556384240 * 2^10 = 8761737461760

 3) The size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is then divided by BUF_PAGE_SIZE
    which is 4080. 8761737461760 / 4080 = 2147484672

 4) nr_pages is subtracted from the current nr_pages (3) and we get:
    2147484669. This value is saved in a signed integer nr_pages_to_update

 5) 2147484669 is greater than 2^31 but smaller than 2^32, a signed int
    turns into the value of -2147482627

 6) As the value is a negative number, in update_pages_handler() it is
    negated and passed to rb_remove_pages() and 2147482627 pages will
    be removed, which is much larger than 3 and it causes the warning
    because not all the pages asked to be removed were removed.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118001

Fixes: 7a8e76a3829f1 ("tracing: unified trace buffer")
Reported-by: Hao Qin &lt;QEver.cn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9b94a8fba501f38368aef6ac1b30e7335252a220 upstream.

The size variable to change the ring buffer in ftrace is a long. The
nr_pages used to update the ring buffer based on the size is int. On 64 bit
machines this can cause an overflow problem.

For example, the following will cause the ring buffer to crash:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo 10 &gt; buffer_size_kb
 # echo 8556384240 &gt; buffer_size_kb

Then you get the warning of:

 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 318 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1527 rb_update_pages+0x22f/0x260

Which is:

  RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, nr_removed);

Note each ring buffer page holds 4080 bytes.

This is because:

 1) 10 causes the ring buffer to have 3 pages.
    (10kb requires 3 * 4080 pages to hold)

 2) (2^31 / 2^10  + 1) * 4080 = 8556384240
    The value written into buffer_size_kb is shifted by 10 and then passed
    to ring_buffer_resize(). 8556384240 * 2^10 = 8761737461760

 3) The size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is then divided by BUF_PAGE_SIZE
    which is 4080. 8761737461760 / 4080 = 2147484672

 4) nr_pages is subtracted from the current nr_pages (3) and we get:
    2147484669. This value is saved in a signed integer nr_pages_to_update

 5) 2147484669 is greater than 2^31 but smaller than 2^32, a signed int
    turns into the value of -2147482627

 6) As the value is a negative number, in update_pages_handler() it is
    negated and passed to rb_remove_pages() and 2147482627 pages will
    be removed, which is much larger than 3 and it causes the warning
    because not all the pages asked to be removed were removed.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118001

Fixes: 7a8e76a3829f1 ("tracing: unified trace buffer")
Reported-by: Hao Qin &lt;QEver.cn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Don't display trigger file for events that can't be enabled</title>
<updated>2016-05-11T09:21:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chunyu Hu</name>
<email>chuhu@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-03T11:34:34+00:00</published>
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commit 854145e0a8e9a05f7366d240e2f99d9c1ca6d6dd upstream.

Currently register functions for events will be called
through the 'reg' field of event class directly without
any check when seting up triggers.

Triggers for events that don't support register through
debug fs (events under events/ftrace are for trace-cmd to
read event format, and most of them don't have a register
function except events/ftrace/functionx) can't be enabled
at all, and an oops will be hit when setting up trigger
for those events, so just not creating them is an easy way
to avoid the oops.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462275274-3911-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Fixes: 85f2b08268c01 ("tracing: Add basic event trigger framework")
Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 854145e0a8e9a05f7366d240e2f99d9c1ca6d6dd upstream.

Currently register functions for events will be called
through the 'reg' field of event class directly without
any check when seting up triggers.

Triggers for events that don't support register through
debug fs (events under events/ftrace are for trace-cmd to
read event format, and most of them don't have a register
function except events/ftrace/functionx) can't be enabled
at all, and an oops will be hit when setting up trigger
for those events, so just not creating them is an easy way
to avoid the oops.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462275274-3911-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Fixes: 85f2b08268c01 ("tracing: Add basic event trigger framework")
Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T14:33:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-22T21:30:58+00:00</published>
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commit 3debb0a9ddb16526de8b456491b7db60114f7b5e upstream.

The trace_printk() code will allocate extra buffers if the compile detects
that a trace_printk() is used. To do this, the format of the trace_printk()
is saved to the __trace_printk_fmt section, and if that section is bigger
than zero, the buffers are allocated (along with a message that this has
happened).

If trace_printk() uses a format that is not a constant, and thus something
not guaranteed to be around when the print happens, the compiler optimizes
the fmt out, as it is not used, and the __trace_printk_fmt section is not
filled. This means the kernel will not allocate the special buffers needed
for the trace_printk() and the trace_printk() will not write anything to the
tracing buffer.

Adding a "__used" to the variable in the __trace_printk_fmt section will
keep it around, even though it is set to NULL. This will keep the string
from being printed in the debugfs/tracing/printk_formats section as it is
not needed.

Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Fixes: 07d777fe8c398 "tracing: Add percpu buffers for trace_printk()"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3debb0a9ddb16526de8b456491b7db60114f7b5e upstream.

The trace_printk() code will allocate extra buffers if the compile detects
that a trace_printk() is used. To do this, the format of the trace_printk()
is saved to the __trace_printk_fmt section, and if that section is bigger
than zero, the buffers are allocated (along with a message that this has
happened).

If trace_printk() uses a format that is not a constant, and thus something
not guaranteed to be around when the print happens, the compiler optimizes
the fmt out, as it is not used, and the __trace_printk_fmt section is not
filled. This means the kernel will not allocate the special buffers needed
for the trace_printk() and the trace_printk() will not write anything to the
tracing buffer.

Adding a "__used" to the variable in the __trace_printk_fmt section will
keep it around, even though it is set to NULL. This will keep the string
from being printed in the debugfs/tracing/printk_formats section as it is
not needed.

Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Fixes: 07d777fe8c398 "tracing: Add percpu buffers for trace_printk()"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T14:33:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-18T19:46:48+00:00</published>
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commit a29054d9478d0435ab01b7544da4f674ab13f533 upstream.

If tracing contains data and the trace_pipe file is read with sendfile(),
then it can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and various BUG_ON within the
VM code.

There's a patch to fix this in the splice_to_pipe() code, but it's also a
good idea to not let that happen from trace_pipe either.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457641146-9068-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Reported-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin.vincent@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a29054d9478d0435ab01b7544da4f674ab13f533 upstream.

If tracing contains data and the trace_pipe file is read with sendfile(),
then it can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and various BUG_ON within the
VM code.

There's a patch to fix this in the splice_to_pipe() code, but it's also a
good idea to not let that happen from trace_pipe either.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457641146-9068-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Reported-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin.vincent@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Have preempt(irqs)off trace preempt disabled functions</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T14:33:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-18T16:27:43+00:00</published>
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commit cb86e05390debcc084cfdb0a71ed4c5dbbec517d upstream.

Joel Fernandes reported that the function tracing of preempt disabled
sections was not being reported when running either the preemptirqsoff or
preemptoff tracers. This was due to the fact that the function tracer
callback for those tracers checked if irqs were disabled before tracing. But
this fails when we want to trace preempt off locations as well.

Joel explained that he wanted to see funcitons where interrupts are enabled
but preemption was disabled. The expected output he wanted:

   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.h1 3419us : preempt_count_sub &lt;-irq_exit
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3419us : __do_softirq &lt;-irq_exit
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3419us : msecs_to_jiffies &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3420us : irqtime_account_irq &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3420us : __local_bh_disable_ip &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3421us : run_timer_softirq &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3421us : hrtimer_run_pending &lt;-run_timer_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3421us : _raw_spin_lock_irq &lt;-run_timer_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s1 3422us : preempt_count_add &lt;-_raw_spin_lock_irq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s2 3422us : _raw_spin_unlock_irq &lt;-run_timer_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s2 3422us : preempt_count_sub &lt;-_raw_spin_unlock_irq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3423us : rcu_bh_qs &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s1 3423us : irqtime_account_irq &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s1 3423us : __local_bh_enable &lt;-__do_softirq

There's a comment saying that the irq disabled check is because there's a
possible race that tracing_cpu may be set when the function is executed. But
I don't remember that race. For now, I added a check for preemption being
enabled too to not record the function, as there would be no race if that
was the case. I need to re-investigate this, as I'm now thinking that the
tracing_cpu will always be correct. But no harm in keeping the check for
now, except for the slight performance hit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457770386-88717-1-git-send-email-agnel.joel@gmail.com

Fixes: 5e6d2b9cfa3a "tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers"
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;agnel.joel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit cb86e05390debcc084cfdb0a71ed4c5dbbec517d upstream.

Joel Fernandes reported that the function tracing of preempt disabled
sections was not being reported when running either the preemptirqsoff or
preemptoff tracers. This was due to the fact that the function tracer
callback for those tracers checked if irqs were disabled before tracing. But
this fails when we want to trace preempt off locations as well.

Joel explained that he wanted to see funcitons where interrupts are enabled
but preemption was disabled. The expected output he wanted:

   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.h1 3419us : preempt_count_sub &lt;-irq_exit
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3419us : __do_softirq &lt;-irq_exit
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3419us : msecs_to_jiffies &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3420us : irqtime_account_irq &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3420us : __local_bh_disable_ip &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3421us : run_timer_softirq &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3421us : hrtimer_run_pending &lt;-run_timer_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3421us : _raw_spin_lock_irq &lt;-run_timer_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s1 3422us : preempt_count_add &lt;-_raw_spin_lock_irq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s2 3422us : _raw_spin_unlock_irq &lt;-run_timer_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s2 3422us : preempt_count_sub &lt;-_raw_spin_unlock_irq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3423us : rcu_bh_qs &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s1 3423us : irqtime_account_irq &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s1 3423us : __local_bh_enable &lt;-__do_softirq

There's a comment saying that the irq disabled check is because there's a
possible race that tracing_cpu may be set when the function is executed. But
I don't remember that race. For now, I added a check for preemption being
enabled too to not record the function, as there would be no race if that
was the case. I need to re-investigate this, as I'm now thinking that the
tracing_cpu will always be correct. But no harm in keeping the check for
now, except for the slight performance hit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457770386-88717-1-git-send-email-agnel.joel@gmail.com

Fixes: 5e6d2b9cfa3a "tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers"
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;agnel.joel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v4.5-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2016-03-05T00:57:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-05T00:57:04+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "A feature was added in 4.3 that allowed users to filter trace points
  on a tasks "comm" field.  But this prevented filtering on a comm field
  that is within a trace event (like sched_migrate_task).

  When trying to filter on when a program migrated, this change
  prevented the filtering of the sched_migrate_task.

  To fix this, the event fields are examined first, and then the extra
  fields like "comm" and "cpu" are examined.  Also, instead of testing
  to assign the comm filter function based on the field's name, the
  generic comm field is given a new filter type (FILTER_COMM).  When
  this field is used to filter the type is checked.  The same is done
  for the cpu filter field.

  Two new special filter types are added: "COMM" and "CPU".  This allows
  users to still filter the tasks comm for events that have "comm" as
  one of their fields, in cases that users would like to filter
  sched_migrate_task on the comm of the task that called the event, and
  not the comm of the task that is being migrated"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v4.5-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Do not have 'comm' filter override event 'comm' field
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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "A feature was added in 4.3 that allowed users to filter trace points
  on a tasks "comm" field.  But this prevented filtering on a comm field
  that is within a trace event (like sched_migrate_task).

  When trying to filter on when a program migrated, this change
  prevented the filtering of the sched_migrate_task.

  To fix this, the event fields are examined first, and then the extra
  fields like "comm" and "cpu" are examined.  Also, instead of testing
  to assign the comm filter function based on the field's name, the
  generic comm field is given a new filter type (FILTER_COMM).  When
  this field is used to filter the type is checked.  The same is done
  for the cpu filter field.

  Two new special filter types are added: "COMM" and "CPU".  This allows
  users to still filter the tasks comm for events that have "comm" as
  one of their fields, in cases that users would like to filter
  sched_migrate_task on the comm of the task that called the event, and
  not the comm of the task that is being migrated"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v4.5-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Do not have 'comm' filter override event 'comm' field
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<title>tracing: Do not have 'comm' filter override event 'comm' field</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T14:57:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-03T22:18:20+00:00</published>
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Commit 9f61668073a8d "tracing: Allow triggers to filter for CPU ids and
process names" added a 'comm' filter that will filter events based on the
current tasks struct 'comm'. But this now hides the ability to filter events
that have a 'comm' field too. For example, sched_migrate_task trace event.
That has a 'comm' field of the task to be migrated.

 echo 'comm == "bash"' &gt; events/sched_migrate_task/filter

will now filter all sched_migrate_task events for tasks named "bash" that
migrates other tasks (in interrupt context), instead of seeing when "bash"
itself gets migrated.

This fix requires a couple of changes.

1) Change the look up order for filter predicates to look at the events
   fields before looking at the generic filters.

2) Instead of basing the filter function off of the "comm" name, have the
   generic "comm" filter have its own filter_type (FILTER_COMM). Test
   against the type instead of the name to assign the filter function.

3) Add a new "COMM" filter that works just like "comm" but will filter based
   on the current task, even if the trace event contains a "comm" field.

Do the same for "cpu" field, adding a FILTER_CPU and a filter "CPU".

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+
Fixes: 9f61668073a8d "tracing: Allow triggers to filter for CPU ids and process names"
Reported-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Commit 9f61668073a8d "tracing: Allow triggers to filter for CPU ids and
process names" added a 'comm' filter that will filter events based on the
current tasks struct 'comm'. But this now hides the ability to filter events
that have a 'comm' field too. For example, sched_migrate_task trace event.
That has a 'comm' field of the task to be migrated.

 echo 'comm == "bash"' &gt; events/sched_migrate_task/filter

will now filter all sched_migrate_task events for tasks named "bash" that
migrates other tasks (in interrupt context), instead of seeing when "bash"
itself gets migrated.

This fix requires a couple of changes.

1) Change the look up order for filter predicates to look at the events
   fields before looking at the generic filters.

2) Instead of basing the filter function off of the "comm" name, have the
   generic "comm" filter have its own filter_type (FILTER_COMM). Test
   against the type instead of the name to assign the filter function.

3) Add a new "COMM" filter that works just like "comm" but will filter based
   on the current task, even if the trace event contains a "comm" field.

Do the same for "cpu" field, adding a FILTER_CPU and a filter "CPU".

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+
Fixes: 9f61668073a8d "tracing: Allow triggers to filter for CPU ids and process names"
Reported-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v4.5-rc5-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2016-02-26T04:12:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-26T04:12:09+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Another small bug reported to me by Chunyu Hu.

  When perf added a "reg" function to the function tracing event (not a
  tracepoint), it caused that event to be displayed as a tracepoint and
  could cause errors in tracepoint handling.  That was solved by adding
  a flag to ignore ftrace non-tracepoint events.  But that flag was
  missed when displaying events in available_events, which should only
  contain tracepoint events.

  This broke a documented way to enable all events with:

      cat available_events &gt; set_event

  As the function non-tracepoint event would cause that to error out.
  The commit here fixes that by having the available_events file not
  list events that have the ignore flag set"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v4.5-rc5-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix showing function event in available_events
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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Another small bug reported to me by Chunyu Hu.

  When perf added a "reg" function to the function tracing event (not a
  tracepoint), it caused that event to be displayed as a tracepoint and
  could cause errors in tracepoint handling.  That was solved by adding
  a flag to ignore ftrace non-tracepoint events.  But that flag was
  missed when displaying events in available_events, which should only
  contain tracepoint events.

  This broke a documented way to enable all events with:

      cat available_events &gt; set_event

  As the function non-tracepoint event would cause that to error out.
  The commit here fixes that by having the available_events file not
  list events that have the ignore flag set"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v4.5-rc5-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix showing function event in available_events
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix showing function event in available_events</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T14:17:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-24T14:04:24+00:00</published>
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The ftrace:function event is only displayed for parsing the function tracer
data. It is not used to enable function tracing, and does not include an
"enable" file in its event directory.

Originally, this event was kept separate from other events because it did
not have a -&gt;reg parameter. But perf added a "reg" parameter for its use
which caused issues, because it made the event available to functions where
it was not compatible for.

Commit 9b63776fa3ca9 "tracing: Do not enable function event with enable"
added a TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE flag that prevented the function event
from being enabled by normal trace events. But this commit missed keeping
the function event from being displayed by the "available_events" directory,
which is used to show what events can be enabled by set_event.

One documented way to enable all events is to:

 cat available_events &gt; set_event

But because the function event is displayed in the available_events, this
now causes an INVALID error:

 cat: write error: Invalid argument

Reported-by: Chunyu Hu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 9b63776fa3ca9 "tracing: Do not enable function event with enable"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The ftrace:function event is only displayed for parsing the function tracer
data. It is not used to enable function tracing, and does not include an
"enable" file in its event directory.

Originally, this event was kept separate from other events because it did
not have a -&gt;reg parameter. But perf added a "reg" parameter for its use
which caused issues, because it made the event available to functions where
it was not compatible for.

Commit 9b63776fa3ca9 "tracing: Do not enable function event with enable"
added a TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE flag that prevented the function event
from being enabled by normal trace events. But this commit missed keeping
the function event from being displayed by the "available_events" directory,
which is used to show what events can be enabled by set_event.

One documented way to enable all events is to:

 cat available_events &gt; set_event

But because the function event is displayed in the available_events, this
now causes an INVALID error:

 cat: write error: Invalid argument

Reported-by: Chunyu Hu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 9b63776fa3ca9 "tracing: Do not enable function event with enable"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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