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<entry>
<title>tracing: Have HIST_TRIGGERS select TRACING</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T13:21:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Zanussi</name>
<email>tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-03T13:51:34+00:00</published>
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commit 7ad8fb61c4abf589596f0a4da34d987471481569 upstream.

The kbuild test robot reported a compile error if HIST_TRIGGERS was
enabled but nothing else that selected TRACING was configured in.

HIST_TRIGGERS should directly select it and not rely on anything else
to do it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57791866.8080505@linux.intel.com

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fennguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 7ef224d1d0e3a ("tracing: Add 'hist' event trigger command")
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.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 7ad8fb61c4abf589596f0a4da34d987471481569 upstream.

The kbuild test robot reported a compile error if HIST_TRIGGERS was
enabled but nothing else that selected TRACING was configured in.

HIST_TRIGGERS should directly select it and not rely on anything else
to do it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57791866.8080505@linux.intel.com

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fennguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 7ef224d1d0e3a ("tracing: Add 'hist' event trigger command")
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Move mutex to protect against resetting of seq data</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T08:12:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-24T02:57:13+00:00</published>
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commit 1245800c0f96eb6ebb368593e251d66c01e61022 upstream.

The iter-&gt;seq can be reset outside the protection of the mutex. So can
reading of user data. Move the mutex up to the beginning of the function.

Fixes: d7350c3f45694 ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants")
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&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 1245800c0f96eb6ebb368593e251d66c01e61022 upstream.

The iter-&gt;seq can be reset outside the protection of the mutex. So can
reading of user data. Move the mutex up to the beginning of the function.

Fixes: d7350c3f45694 ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants")
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix memory leaks in tracing_buffers_splice_read()</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T08:12:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-17T22:31:46+00:00</published>
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commit 1ae2293dd6d2f5c823cf97e60b70d03631cd622f upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1ae2293dd6d2f5c823cf97e60b70d03631cd622f upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Makefile: Mute warning for __builtin_return_address(&gt;0) for tracing only</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T08:12:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-29T02:30:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=93200d680909135bacbdb856756c92e7f0f7bca4'/>
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commit 377ccbb483738f84400ddf5840c7dd8825716985 upstream.

With the latest gcc compilers, they give a warning if
__builtin_return_address() parameter is greater than 0. That is because if
it is used by a function called by a top level function (or in the case of
the kernel, by assembly), it can try to access stack frames outside the
stack and crash the system.

The tracing system uses __builtin_return_address() of up to 2! But it is
well aware of the dangers that it may have, and has even added precautions
to protect against it (see the thunk code in arch/x86/entry/thunk*.S)

Linus originally added KBUILD_CFLAGS that would suppress the warning for the
entire kernel, as simply adding KBUILD_CFLAGS to the tracing directory
wouldn't work. The tracing directory plays a bit with the CFLAGS and
requires a little more logic.

This adds that special logic to only suppress the warning for the tracing
directory. If it is used anywhere else outside of tracing, the warning will
still be triggered.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160728223043.51996267@grimm.local.home

Tested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&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 377ccbb483738f84400ddf5840c7dd8825716985 upstream.

With the latest gcc compilers, they give a warning if
__builtin_return_address() parameter is greater than 0. That is because if
it is used by a function called by a top level function (or in the case of
the kernel, by assembly), it can try to access stack frames outside the
stack and crash the system.

The tracing system uses __builtin_return_address() of up to 2! But it is
well aware of the dangers that it may have, and has even added precautions
to protect against it (see the thunk code in arch/x86/entry/thunk*.S)

Linus originally added KBUILD_CFLAGS that would suppress the warning for the
entire kernel, as simply adding KBUILD_CFLAGS to the tracing directory
wouldn't work. The tracing directory plays a bit with the CFLAGS and
requires a little more logic.

This adds that special logic to only suppress the warning for the tracing
directory. If it is used anywhere else outside of tracing, the warning will
still be triggered.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160728223043.51996267@grimm.local.home

Tested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&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>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2016-06-29T18:50:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-29T18:50:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=32826ac41f2170df0d9a2e8df5a9b570c7858ccf'/>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "I've been traveling so this accumulates more than week or so of bug
  fixing.  It perhaps looks a little worse than it really is.

   1) Fix deadlock in ath10k driver, from Ben Greear.

   2) Increase scan timeout in iwlwifi, from Luca Coelho.

   3) Unbreak STP by properly reinjecting STP packets back into the
      stack.  Regression fix from Ido Schimmel.

   4) Mediatek driver fixes (missing malloc failure checks, leaking of
      scratch memory, wrong indexing when mapping TX buffers, etc.) from
      John Crispin.

   5) Fix endianness bug in icmpv6_err() handler, from Hannes Frederic
      Sowa.

   6) Fix hashing of flows in UDP in the ruseport case, from Xuemin Su.

   7) Fix netlink notifications in ovs for tunnels, delete link messages
      are never emitted because of how the device registry state is
      handled.  From Nicolas Dichtel.

   8) Conntrack module leaks kmemcache on unload, from Florian Westphal.

   9) Prevent endless jump loops in nft rules, from Liping Zhang and
      Pablo Neira Ayuso.

  10) Not early enough spinlock initialization in mlx4, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  11) Bind refcount leak in act_ipt, from Cong WANG.

  12) Missing RCU locking in HTB scheduler, from Florian Westphal.

  13) Several small MACSEC bug fixes from Sabrina Dubroca (missing RCU
      barrier, using heap for SG and IV, and erroneous use of async flag
      when allocating AEAD conext.)

  14) RCU handling fix in TIPC, from Ying Xue.

  15) Pass correct protocol down into ipv4_{update_pmtu,redirect}() in
      SIT driver, from Simon Horman.

  16) Socket timer deadlock fix in TIPC from Jon Paul Maloy.

  17) Fix potential deadlock in team enslave, from Ido Schimmel.

  18) Memory leak in KCM procfs handling, from Jiri Slaby.

  19) ESN generation fix in ipv4 ESP, from Herbert Xu.

  20) Fix GFP_KERNEL allocations with locks held in act_ife, from Cong
      WANG.

  21) Use after free in netem, from Eric Dumazet.

  22) Uninitialized last assert time in multicast router code, from Tom
      Goff.

  23) Skip raw sockets in sock_diag destruction broadcast, from Willem
      de Bruijn.

  24) Fix link status reporting in thunderx, from Sunil Goutham.

  25) Limit resegmentation of retransmit queue so that we do not
      retransmit too large GSO frames.  From Eric Dumazet.

  26) Delay bpf program release after grace period, from Daniel
      Borkmann"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (141 commits)
  openvswitch: fix conntrack netlink event delivery
  qed: Protect the doorbell BAR with the write barriers.
  neigh: Explicitly declare RCU-bh read side critical section in neigh_xmit()
  e1000e: keep VLAN interfaces functional after rxvlan off
  cfg80211: fix proto in ieee80211_data_to_8023 for frames without LLC header
  qlcnic: use the correct ring in qlcnic_83xx_process_rcv_ring_diag()
  bpf, perf: delay release of BPF prog after grace period
  net: bridge: fix vlan stats continue counter
  tcp: do not send too big packets at retransmit time
  ibmvnic: fix to use list_for_each_safe() when delete items
  net: thunderx: Fix TL4 configuration for secondary Qsets
  net: thunderx: Fix link status reporting
  net/mlx5e: Reorganize ethtool statistics
  net/mlx5e: Fix number of PFC counters reported to ethtool
  net/mlx5e: Prevent adding the same vxlan port
  net/mlx5e: Check for BlueFlame capability before allocating SQ uar
  net/mlx5e: Change enum to better reflect usage
  net/mlx5: Add ConnectX-5 PCIe 4.0 to list of supported devices
  net/mlx5: Update command strings
  net: marvell: Add separate config ANEG function for Marvell 88E1111
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "I've been traveling so this accumulates more than week or so of bug
  fixing.  It perhaps looks a little worse than it really is.

   1) Fix deadlock in ath10k driver, from Ben Greear.

   2) Increase scan timeout in iwlwifi, from Luca Coelho.

   3) Unbreak STP by properly reinjecting STP packets back into the
      stack.  Regression fix from Ido Schimmel.

   4) Mediatek driver fixes (missing malloc failure checks, leaking of
      scratch memory, wrong indexing when mapping TX buffers, etc.) from
      John Crispin.

   5) Fix endianness bug in icmpv6_err() handler, from Hannes Frederic
      Sowa.

   6) Fix hashing of flows in UDP in the ruseport case, from Xuemin Su.

   7) Fix netlink notifications in ovs for tunnels, delete link messages
      are never emitted because of how the device registry state is
      handled.  From Nicolas Dichtel.

   8) Conntrack module leaks kmemcache on unload, from Florian Westphal.

   9) Prevent endless jump loops in nft rules, from Liping Zhang and
      Pablo Neira Ayuso.

  10) Not early enough spinlock initialization in mlx4, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  11) Bind refcount leak in act_ipt, from Cong WANG.

  12) Missing RCU locking in HTB scheduler, from Florian Westphal.

  13) Several small MACSEC bug fixes from Sabrina Dubroca (missing RCU
      barrier, using heap for SG and IV, and erroneous use of async flag
      when allocating AEAD conext.)

  14) RCU handling fix in TIPC, from Ying Xue.

  15) Pass correct protocol down into ipv4_{update_pmtu,redirect}() in
      SIT driver, from Simon Horman.

  16) Socket timer deadlock fix in TIPC from Jon Paul Maloy.

  17) Fix potential deadlock in team enslave, from Ido Schimmel.

  18) Memory leak in KCM procfs handling, from Jiri Slaby.

  19) ESN generation fix in ipv4 ESP, from Herbert Xu.

  20) Fix GFP_KERNEL allocations with locks held in act_ife, from Cong
      WANG.

  21) Use after free in netem, from Eric Dumazet.

  22) Uninitialized last assert time in multicast router code, from Tom
      Goff.

  23) Skip raw sockets in sock_diag destruction broadcast, from Willem
      de Bruijn.

  24) Fix link status reporting in thunderx, from Sunil Goutham.

  25) Limit resegmentation of retransmit queue so that we do not
      retransmit too large GSO frames.  From Eric Dumazet.

  26) Delay bpf program release after grace period, from Daniel
      Borkmann"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (141 commits)
  openvswitch: fix conntrack netlink event delivery
  qed: Protect the doorbell BAR with the write barriers.
  neigh: Explicitly declare RCU-bh read side critical section in neigh_xmit()
  e1000e: keep VLAN interfaces functional after rxvlan off
  cfg80211: fix proto in ieee80211_data_to_8023 for frames without LLC header
  qlcnic: use the correct ring in qlcnic_83xx_process_rcv_ring_diag()
  bpf, perf: delay release of BPF prog after grace period
  net: bridge: fix vlan stats continue counter
  tcp: do not send too big packets at retransmit time
  ibmvnic: fix to use list_for_each_safe() when delete items
  net: thunderx: Fix TL4 configuration for secondary Qsets
  net: thunderx: Fix link status reporting
  net/mlx5e: Reorganize ethtool statistics
  net/mlx5e: Fix number of PFC counters reported to ethtool
  net/mlx5e: Prevent adding the same vxlan port
  net/mlx5e: Check for BlueFlame capability before allocating SQ uar
  net/mlx5e: Change enum to better reflect usage
  net/mlx5: Add ConnectX-5 PCIe 4.0 to list of supported devices
  net/mlx5: Update command strings
  net: marvell: Add separate config ANEG function for Marvell 88E1111
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Handle NULL formats in hold_module_trace_bprintk_format()</title>
<updated>2016-06-20T13:46:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-17T20:10:42+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
If a task uses a non constant string for the format parameter in
trace_printk(), then the trace_printk_fmt variable is set to NULL. This
variable is then saved in the __trace_printk_fmt section.

The function hold_module_trace_bprintk_format() checks to see if duplicate
formats are used by modules, and reuses them if so (saves them to the list
if it is new). But this function calls lookup_format() that does a strcmp()
to the value (which is now NULL) and can cause a kernel oops.

This wasn't an issue till 3debb0a9ddb ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print
when not using bprintk()") which added "__used" to the trace_printk_fmt
variable, and before that, the kernel simply optimized it out (no NULL value
was saved).

The fix is simply to handle the NULL pointer in lookup_format() and have the
caller ignore the value if it was NULL.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464769870-18344-1-git-send-email-zhengjun.xing@intel.com

Reported-by: xingzhen &lt;zhengjun.xing@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 3debb0a9ddb ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If a task uses a non constant string for the format parameter in
trace_printk(), then the trace_printk_fmt variable is set to NULL. This
variable is then saved in the __trace_printk_fmt section.

The function hold_module_trace_bprintk_format() checks to see if duplicate
formats are used by modules, and reuses them if so (saves them to the list
if it is new). But this function calls lookup_format() that does a strcmp()
to the value (which is now NULL) and can cause a kernel oops.

This wasn't an issue till 3debb0a9ddb ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print
when not using bprintk()") which added "__used" to the trace_printk_fmt
variable, and before that, the kernel simply optimized it out (no NULL value
was saved).

The fix is simply to handle the NULL pointer in lookup_format() and have the
caller ignore the value if it was NULL.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464769870-18344-1-git-send-email-zhengjun.xing@intel.com

Reported-by: xingzhen &lt;zhengjun.xing@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 3debb0a9ddb ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf, trace: check event type in bpf_perf_event_read</title>
<updated>2016-06-16T06:37:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-16T01:25:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ad572d174787daa59e24b8b5c83028c09cdb5ddb'/>
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<content type='text'>
similar to bpf_perf_event_output() the bpf_perf_event_read() helper
needs to check the type of the perf_event before reading the counter.

Fixes: a43eec304259 ("bpf: introduce bpf_perf_event_output() helper")
Reported-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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similar to bpf_perf_event_output() the bpf_perf_event_read() helper
needs to check the type of the perf_event before reading the counter.

Fixes: a43eec304259 ("bpf: introduce bpf_perf_event_output() helper")
Reported-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: fix matching of data/data_end in verifier</title>
<updated>2016-06-16T06:37:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-16T01:25:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=19de99f70b87fcc3338da52a89c439b088cbff71'/>
<id>19de99f70b87fcc3338da52a89c439b088cbff71</id>
<content type='text'>
The ctx structure passed into bpf programs is different depending on bpf
program type. The verifier incorrectly marked ctx-&gt;data and ctx-&gt;data_end
access based on ctx offset only. That caused loads in tracing programs
int bpf_prog(struct pt_regs *ctx) { .. ctx-&gt;ax .. }
to be incorrectly marked as PTR_TO_PACKET which later caused verifier
to reject the program that was actually valid in tracing context.
Fix this by doing program type specific matching of ctx offsets.

Fixes: 969bf05eb3ce ("bpf: direct packet access")
Reported-by: Sasha Goldshtein &lt;goldshtn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The ctx structure passed into bpf programs is different depending on bpf
program type. The verifier incorrectly marked ctx-&gt;data and ctx-&gt;data_end
access based on ctx offset only. That caused loads in tracing programs
int bpf_prog(struct pt_regs *ctx) { .. ctx-&gt;ax .. }
to be incorrectly marked as PTR_TO_PACKET which later caused verifier
to reject the program that was actually valid in tracing context.
Fix this by doing program type specific matching of ctx offsets.

Fixes: 969bf05eb3ce ("bpf: direct packet access")
Reported-by: Sasha Goldshtein &lt;goldshtn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf, trace: use READ_ONCE for retrieving file ptr</title>
<updated>2016-06-07T21:48:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
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<published>2016-06-04T18:50:59+00:00</published>
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In bpf_perf_event_read() and bpf_perf_event_output(), we must use
READ_ONCE() for fetching the struct file pointer, which could get
updated concurrently, so we must prevent the compiler from potential
refetching.

We already do this with tail calls for fetching the related bpf_prog,
but not so on stored perf events. Semantics for both are the same
with regards to updates.

Fixes: a43eec304259 ("bpf: introduce bpf_perf_event_output() helper")
Fixes: 35578d798400 ("bpf: Implement function bpf_perf_event_read() that get the selected hardware PMU conuter")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In bpf_perf_event_read() and bpf_perf_event_output(), we must use
READ_ONCE() for fetching the struct file pointer, which could get
updated concurrently, so we must prevent the compiler from potential
refetching.

We already do this with tail calls for fetching the related bpf_prog,
but not so on stored perf events. Semantics for both are the same
with regards to updates.

Fixes: a43eec304259 ("bpf: introduce bpf_perf_event_output() helper")
Fixes: 35578d798400 ("bpf: Implement function bpf_perf_event_read() that get the selected hardware PMU conuter")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2016-05-23T02:40:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-23T02:40:39+00:00</published>
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Pull motr tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Three more changes.

   - I forgot that I had another selftest to stress test the ftrace
     instance creation.  It was actually suppose to go into the 4.6
     merge window, but I never committed it.  I almost forgot about it
     again, but noticed it was missing from your tree.

   - Soumya PN sent me a clean up patch to not disable interrupts when
     taking the tasklist_lock for read, as it's unnecessary because that
     lock is never taken for write in irq context.

   - Newer gcc's can cause the jump in the function_graph code to the
     global ftrace_stub label to be a short jump instead of a long one.
     As that jump is dynamically converted to jump to the trace code to
     do function graph tracing, and that conversion expects a long jump
     it can corrupt the ftrace_stub itself (it's directly after that
     call).  One way to prevent gcc from using a short jump is to
     declare the ftrace_stub as a weak function, which we do here to
     keep gcc from optimizing too much"

* tag 'trace-v4.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ftrace/x86: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it
  ftrace: Don't disable irqs when taking the tasklist_lock read_lock
  ftracetest: Add instance created, delete, read and enable event test
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Pull motr tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Three more changes.

   - I forgot that I had another selftest to stress test the ftrace
     instance creation.  It was actually suppose to go into the 4.6
     merge window, but I never committed it.  I almost forgot about it
     again, but noticed it was missing from your tree.

   - Soumya PN sent me a clean up patch to not disable interrupts when
     taking the tasklist_lock for read, as it's unnecessary because that
     lock is never taken for write in irq context.

   - Newer gcc's can cause the jump in the function_graph code to the
     global ftrace_stub label to be a short jump instead of a long one.
     As that jump is dynamically converted to jump to the trace code to
     do function graph tracing, and that conversion expects a long jump
     it can corrupt the ftrace_stub itself (it's directly after that
     call).  One way to prevent gcc from using a short jump is to
     declare the ftrace_stub as a weak function, which we do here to
     keep gcc from optimizing too much"

* tag 'trace-v4.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ftrace/x86: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it
  ftrace: Don't disable irqs when taking the tasklist_lock read_lock
  ftracetest: Add instance created, delete, read and enable event test
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