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<entry>
<title>tracing: Apply trace filters on all output channels</title>
<updated>2021-08-26T12:35:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pingfan Liu</name>
<email>kernelfans@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-14T03:45:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6c34df6f350df9579ce99d887a2b5fa14cc13b32 ]

The event filters are not applied on all of the output, which results in
the flood of printk when using tp_printk. Unfolding
event_trigger_unlock_commit_regs() into trace_event_buffer_commit(), so
the filters can be applied on every output.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210814034538.8428-1-kernelfans@gmail.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0daa2302968c1 ("tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk()")
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6c34df6f350df9579ce99d887a2b5fa14cc13b32 ]

The event filters are not applied on all of the output, which results in
the flood of printk when using tp_printk. Unfolding
event_trigger_unlock_commit_regs() into trace_event_buffer_commit(), so
the filters can be applied on every output.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210814034538.8428-1-kernelfans@gmail.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0daa2302968c1 ("tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk()")
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing / histogram: Fix NULL pointer dereference on strcmp() on NULL event name</title>
<updated>2021-08-26T12:35:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-08T04:30:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5acce0bff2a0420ce87d4591daeb867f47d552c2 ]

The following commands:

 # echo 'read_max u64 size;' &gt; synthetic_events
 # echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:count=count:onmax($count).trace(read_max,count)' &gt; events/syscalls/sys_enter_read/trigger

Causes:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 4 PID: 1763 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2-test+ #155
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01
v03.03 07/14/2016
 RIP: 0010:strcmp+0xc/0x20
 Code: 75 f7 31 c0 0f b6 0c 06 88 0c 02 48 83 c0 01 84 c9 75 f1 4c 89 c0
c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 31 c0 eb 08 48 83 c0 01 84 d2 74 0f &lt;0f&gt; b6 14 07
3a 14 06 74 ef 19 c0 83 c8 01 c3 31 c0 c3 66 90 48 89
 RSP: 0018:ffffb5fdc0963ca8 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffb3a4e040 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff9714c0d0b640 RDI: 0000000000000000
 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000022986b7cde R09: ffffffffb3a4dff8
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9714c50603c8
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff97143fdf9e48 R15: ffff9714c01a2210
 FS:  00007f1fa6785740(0000) GS:ffff9714da400000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000002d863004 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  __find_event_file+0x4e/0x80
  action_create+0x6b7/0xeb0
  ? kstrdup+0x44/0x60
  event_hist_trigger_func+0x1a07/0x2130
  trigger_process_regex+0xbd/0x110
  event_trigger_write+0x71/0xd0
  vfs_write+0xe9/0x310
  ksys_write+0x68/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
 RIP: 0033:0x7f1fa6879e87

The problem was the "trace(read_max,count)" where the "count" should be
"$count" as "onmax()" only handles variables (although it really should be
able to figure out that "count" is a field of sys_enter_read). But there's
a path that does not find the variable and ends up passing a NULL for the
event, which ends up getting passed to "strcmp()".

Add a check for NULL to return and error on the command with:

 # cat error_log
  hist:syscalls:sys_enter_read: error: Couldn't create or find variable
  Command: hist:keys=common_pid:count=count:onmax($count).trace(read_max,count)
                                ^
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808003011.4037f8d0@oasis.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 50450603ec9cb tracing: Add 'onmax' hist trigger action support
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5acce0bff2a0420ce87d4591daeb867f47d552c2 ]

The following commands:

 # echo 'read_max u64 size;' &gt; synthetic_events
 # echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:count=count:onmax($count).trace(read_max,count)' &gt; events/syscalls/sys_enter_read/trigger

Causes:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 4 PID: 1763 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2-test+ #155
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01
v03.03 07/14/2016
 RIP: 0010:strcmp+0xc/0x20
 Code: 75 f7 31 c0 0f b6 0c 06 88 0c 02 48 83 c0 01 84 c9 75 f1 4c 89 c0
c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 31 c0 eb 08 48 83 c0 01 84 d2 74 0f &lt;0f&gt; b6 14 07
3a 14 06 74 ef 19 c0 83 c8 01 c3 31 c0 c3 66 90 48 89
 RSP: 0018:ffffb5fdc0963ca8 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffb3a4e040 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff9714c0d0b640 RDI: 0000000000000000
 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000022986b7cde R09: ffffffffb3a4dff8
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9714c50603c8
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff97143fdf9e48 R15: ffff9714c01a2210
 FS:  00007f1fa6785740(0000) GS:ffff9714da400000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000002d863004 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  __find_event_file+0x4e/0x80
  action_create+0x6b7/0xeb0
  ? kstrdup+0x44/0x60
  event_hist_trigger_func+0x1a07/0x2130
  trigger_process_regex+0xbd/0x110
  event_trigger_write+0x71/0xd0
  vfs_write+0xe9/0x310
  ksys_write+0x68/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
 RIP: 0033:0x7f1fa6879e87

The problem was the "trace(read_max,count)" where the "count" should be
"$count" as "onmax()" only handles variables (although it really should be
able to figure out that "count" is a field of sys_enter_read). But there's
a path that does not find the variable and ends up passing a NULL for the
event, which ends up getting passed to "strcmp()".

Add a check for NULL to return and error on the command with:

 # cat error_log
  hist:syscalls:sys_enter_read: error: Couldn't create or find variable
  Command: hist:keys=common_pid:count=count:onmax($count).trace(read_max,count)
                                ^
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808003011.4037f8d0@oasis.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 50450603ec9cb tracing: Add 'onmax' hist trigger action support
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: define needed config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS</title>
<updated>2021-08-26T12:35:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Bulwahn</name>
<email>lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-06T19:50:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 12f9951d3f311acb1d4ffe8e839bc2c07983546f ]

Commit 2860cd8a2353 ("livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of
REGS when ARGS is available") intends to enable config LIVEPATCH when
ftrace with ARGS is available. However, the chain of configs to enable
LIVEPATCH is incomplete, as HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is available,
but the definition of DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, combining DYNAMIC_FTRACE
and HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, needed to enable LIVEPATCH, is missing
in the commit.

Fortunately, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py detects this and warns:

DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
Referencing files: kernel/livepatch/Kconfig

So, define the config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS analogously to the already
existing similar configs, DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS and
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS, in ./kernel/trace/Kconfig to connect the
chain of configs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/CAKXUXMwT2zS9fgyQHKUUiqo8ynZBdx2UEUu1WnV_q0OCmknqhw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210806195027.16808-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com

Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jikos@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2860cd8a2353 ("livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn &lt;lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 12f9951d3f311acb1d4ffe8e839bc2c07983546f ]

Commit 2860cd8a2353 ("livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of
REGS when ARGS is available") intends to enable config LIVEPATCH when
ftrace with ARGS is available. However, the chain of configs to enable
LIVEPATCH is incomplete, as HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is available,
but the definition of DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, combining DYNAMIC_FTRACE
and HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, needed to enable LIVEPATCH, is missing
in the commit.

Fortunately, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py detects this and warns:

DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
Referencing files: kernel/livepatch/Kconfig

So, define the config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS analogously to the already
existing similar configs, DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS and
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS, in ./kernel/trace/Kconfig to connect the
chain of configs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/CAKXUXMwT2zS9fgyQHKUUiqo8ynZBdx2UEUu1WnV_q0OCmknqhw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210806195027.16808-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com

Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jikos@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2860cd8a2353 ("livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn &lt;lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add lockdown check for probe_write_user helper</title>
<updated>2021-08-15T12:01:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-09T10:43:17+00:00</published>
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commit 51e1bb9eeaf7868db56e58f47848e364ab4c4129 upstream.

Back then, commit 96ae52279594 ("bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper
to be called in tracers") added the bpf_probe_write_user() helper in order
to allow to override user space memory. Its original goal was to have a
facility to "debug, divert, and manipulate execution of semi-cooperative
processes" under CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Write to kernel was explicitly disallowed
since it would otherwise tamper with its integrity.

One use case was shown in cf9b1199de27 ("samples/bpf: Add test/example of
using bpf_probe_write_user bpf helper") where the program DNATs traffic
at the time of connect(2) syscall, meaning, it rewrites the arguments to
a syscall while they're still in userspace, and before the syscall has a
chance to copy the argument into kernel space. These days we have better
mechanisms in BPF for achieving the same (e.g. for load-balancers), but
without having to write to userspace memory.

Of course the bpf_probe_write_user() helper can also be used to abuse
many other things for both good or bad purpose. Outside of BPF, there is
a similar mechanism for ptrace(2) such as PTRACE_PEEK{TEXT,DATA} and
PTRACE_POKE{TEXT,DATA}, but would likely require some more effort.
Commit 96ae52279594 explicitly dedicated the helper for experimentation
purpose only. Thus, move the helper's availability behind a newly added
LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER lockdown knob so that the helper is disabled under
the "integrity" mode. More fine-grained control can be implemented also
from LSM side with this change.

Fixes: 96ae52279594 ("bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper to be called in tracers")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 51e1bb9eeaf7868db56e58f47848e364ab4c4129 upstream.

Back then, commit 96ae52279594 ("bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper
to be called in tracers") added the bpf_probe_write_user() helper in order
to allow to override user space memory. Its original goal was to have a
facility to "debug, divert, and manipulate execution of semi-cooperative
processes" under CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Write to kernel was explicitly disallowed
since it would otherwise tamper with its integrity.

One use case was shown in cf9b1199de27 ("samples/bpf: Add test/example of
using bpf_probe_write_user bpf helper") where the program DNATs traffic
at the time of connect(2) syscall, meaning, it rewrites the arguments to
a syscall while they're still in userspace, and before the syscall has a
chance to copy the argument into kernel space. These days we have better
mechanisms in BPF for achieving the same (e.g. for load-balancers), but
without having to write to userspace memory.

Of course the bpf_probe_write_user() helper can also be used to abuse
many other things for both good or bad purpose. Outside of BPF, there is
a similar mechanism for ptrace(2) such as PTRACE_PEEK{TEXT,DATA} and
PTRACE_POKE{TEXT,DATA}, but would likely require some more effort.
Commit 96ae52279594 explicitly dedicated the helper for experimentation
purpose only. Thus, move the helper's availability behind a newly added
LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER lockdown knob so that the helper is disabled under
the "integrity" mode. More fine-grained control can be implemented also
from LSM side with this change.

Fixes: 96ae52279594 ("bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper to be called in tracers")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix NULL pointer dereference in start_creating</title>
<updated>2021-08-12T11:32:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kamal Agrawal</name>
<email>kamaagra@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-30T13:23:06+00:00</published>
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commit ff41c28c4b54052942180d8b3f49e75f1445135a upstream.

The event_trace_add_tracer() can fail. In this case, it leads to a crash
in start_creating with below call stack. Handle the error scenario
properly in trace_array_create_dir.

Call trace:
down_write+0x7c/0x204
start_creating.25017+0x6c/0x194
tracefs_create_file+0xc4/0x2b4
init_tracer_tracefs+0x5c/0x940
trace_array_create_dir+0x58/0xb4
trace_array_create+0x1bc/0x2b8
trace_array_get_by_name+0xdc/0x18c

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627651386-21315-1-git-send-email-kamaagra@codeaurora.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4114fbfd02f1 ("tracing: Enable creating new instance early boot")
Signed-off-by: Kamal Agrawal &lt;kamaagra@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ff41c28c4b54052942180d8b3f49e75f1445135a upstream.

The event_trace_add_tracer() can fail. In this case, it leads to a crash
in start_creating with below call stack. Handle the error scenario
properly in trace_array_create_dir.

Call trace:
down_write+0x7c/0x204
start_creating.25017+0x6c/0x194
tracefs_create_file+0xc4/0x2b4
init_tracer_tracefs+0x5c/0x940
trace_array_create_dir+0x58/0xb4
trace_array_create+0x1bc/0x2b8
trace_array_get_by_name+0xdc/0x18c

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627651386-21315-1-git-send-email-kamaagra@codeaurora.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4114fbfd02f1 ("tracing: Enable creating new instance early boot")
Signed-off-by: Kamal Agrawal &lt;kamaagra@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Reject string operand in the histogram expression</title>
<updated>2021-08-12T11:32:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-27T22:55:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=aa9876e40cb636726cbaf50071aef64f70a36deb'/>
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commit a9d10ca4986571bffc19778742d508cc8dd13e02 upstream.

Since the string type can not be the target of the addition / subtraction
operation, it must be rejected. Without this fix, the string type silently
converted to digits.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/162742654278.290973.1523000673366456634.stgit@devnote2

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 100719dcef447 ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a9d10ca4986571bffc19778742d508cc8dd13e02 upstream.

Since the string type can not be the target of the addition / subtraction
operation, it must be rejected. Without this fix, the string type silently
converted to digits.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/162742654278.290973.1523000673366456634.stgit@devnote2

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 100719dcef447 ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing / histogram: Give calculation hist_fields a size</title>
<updated>2021-08-12T11:32:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-30T21:19:51+00:00</published>
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commit 2c05caa7ba8803209769b9e4fe02c38d77ae88d0 upstream.

When working on my user space applications, I found a bug in the synthetic
event code where the automated synthetic event field was not matching the
event field calculation it was attached to. Looking deeper into it, it was
because the calculation hist_field was not given a size.

The synthetic event fields are matched to their hist_fields either by
having the field have an identical string type, or if that does not match,
then the size and signed values are used to match the fields.

The problem arose when I tried to match a calculation where the fields
were "unsigned int". My tool created a synthetic event of type "u32". But
it failed to match. The string was:

  diff=field1-field2:onmatch(event).trace(synth,$diff)

Adding debugging into the kernel, I found that the size of "diff" was 0.
And since it was given "unsigned int" as a type, the histogram fallback
code used size and signed. The signed matched, but the size of u32 (4) did
not match zero, and the event failed to be created.

This can be worse if the field you want to match is not one of the
acceptable fields for a synthetic event. As event fields can have any type
that is supported in Linux, this can cause an issue. For example, if a
type is an enum. Then there's no way to use that with any calculations.

Have the calculation field simply take on the size of what it is
calculating.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210730171951.59c7743f@oasis.local.home

Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 100719dcef447 ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2c05caa7ba8803209769b9e4fe02c38d77ae88d0 upstream.

When working on my user space applications, I found a bug in the synthetic
event code where the automated synthetic event field was not matching the
event field calculation it was attached to. Looking deeper into it, it was
because the calculation hist_field was not given a size.

The synthetic event fields are matched to their hist_fields either by
having the field have an identical string type, or if that does not match,
then the size and signed values are used to match the fields.

The problem arose when I tried to match a calculation where the fields
were "unsigned int". My tool created a synthetic event of type "u32". But
it failed to match. The string was:

  diff=field1-field2:onmatch(event).trace(synth,$diff)

Adding debugging into the kernel, I found that the size of "diff" was 0.
And since it was given "unsigned int" as a type, the histogram fallback
code used size and signed. The signed matched, but the size of u32 (4) did
not match zero, and the event failed to be created.

This can be worse if the field you want to match is not one of the
acceptable fields for a synthetic event. As event fields can have any type
that is supported in Linux, this can cause an issue. For example, if a
type is an enum. Then there's no way to use that with any calculations.

Have the calculation field simply take on the size of what it is
calculating.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210730171951.59c7743f@oasis.local.home

Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 100719dcef447 ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Synthetic event field_pos is an index not a boolean</title>
<updated>2021-07-28T12:37:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-21T23:10:08+00:00</published>
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commit 3b13911a2fd0dd0146c9777a254840c5466cf120 upstream.

Performing the following:

 &gt;# echo 'wakeup_lat s32 pid; u64 delta; char wake_comm[]' &gt; synthetic_events
 &gt;# echo 'hist:keys=pid:__arg__1=common_timestamp.usecs' &gt; events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
 &gt;# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:pid=next_pid,delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$__arg__1:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wakeup_lat,$pid,$delta,prev_comm)'\
      &gt; events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
 &gt;# echo 1 &gt; events/synthetic/enable

Crashed the kernel:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001b
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-test+ #104
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v03.03 07/14/2016
 RIP: 0010:strlen+0x0/0x20
 Code: f6 82 80 2b 0b bc 20 74 11 0f b6 50 01 48 83 c0 01 f6 82 80 2b 0b bc
  20 75 ef c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 &lt;80&gt; 3f 00 74 10
  48 89 f8 48 83 c0 01 80 38 9 f8 c3 31
 RSP: 0018:ffffaa75000d79d0 EFLAGS: 00010046
 RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff9cdb55575270 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: ffff9cdb58c7a320 RSI: ffffaa75000d7b40 RDI: 000000000000001b
 RBP: ffffaa75000d7b40 R08: ffff9cdb40a4f010 R09: ffffaa75000d7ab8
 R10: ffff9cdb4398c700 R11: 0000000000000008 R12: ffff9cdb58c7a320
 R13: ffff9cdb55575270 R14: ffff9cdb58c7a000 R15: 0000000000000018
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9cdb5aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000000000001b CR3: 00000000c0612006 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  trace_event_raw_event_synth+0x90/0x1d0
  action_trace+0x5b/0x70
  event_hist_trigger+0x4bd/0x4e0
  ? cpumask_next_and+0x20/0x30
  ? update_sd_lb_stats.constprop.0+0xf6/0x840
  ? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x125/0x550
  ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90
  ? sched_clock_cpu+0xe/0xd0
  ? lock_release+0x155/0x440
  ? update_load_avg+0x8c/0x6f0
  ? enqueue_entity+0x18a/0x920
  ? __rb_reserve_next+0xe5/0x460
  ? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
  event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0
  trace_event_buffer_commit+0x1ae/0x240
  trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch+0x114/0x170
  __traceiter_sched_switch+0x39/0x50
  __schedule+0x431/0xb00
  schedule_idle+0x28/0x40
  do_idle+0x198/0x2e0
  cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20
  secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xc2/0xcb

The reason is that the dynamic events array keeps track of the field
position of the fields array, via the field_pos variable in the
synth_field structure. Unfortunately, that field is a boolean for some
reason, which means any field_pos greater than 1 will be a bug (in this
case it was 2).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721191008.638bce34@oasis.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bd82631d7ccdc ("tracing: Add support for dynamic strings to synthetic events")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3b13911a2fd0dd0146c9777a254840c5466cf120 upstream.

Performing the following:

 &gt;# echo 'wakeup_lat s32 pid; u64 delta; char wake_comm[]' &gt; synthetic_events
 &gt;# echo 'hist:keys=pid:__arg__1=common_timestamp.usecs' &gt; events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
 &gt;# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:pid=next_pid,delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$__arg__1:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wakeup_lat,$pid,$delta,prev_comm)'\
      &gt; events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
 &gt;# echo 1 &gt; events/synthetic/enable

Crashed the kernel:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001b
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-test+ #104
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v03.03 07/14/2016
 RIP: 0010:strlen+0x0/0x20
 Code: f6 82 80 2b 0b bc 20 74 11 0f b6 50 01 48 83 c0 01 f6 82 80 2b 0b bc
  20 75 ef c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 &lt;80&gt; 3f 00 74 10
  48 89 f8 48 83 c0 01 80 38 9 f8 c3 31
 RSP: 0018:ffffaa75000d79d0 EFLAGS: 00010046
 RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff9cdb55575270 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: ffff9cdb58c7a320 RSI: ffffaa75000d7b40 RDI: 000000000000001b
 RBP: ffffaa75000d7b40 R08: ffff9cdb40a4f010 R09: ffffaa75000d7ab8
 R10: ffff9cdb4398c700 R11: 0000000000000008 R12: ffff9cdb58c7a320
 R13: ffff9cdb55575270 R14: ffff9cdb58c7a000 R15: 0000000000000018
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9cdb5aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000000000001b CR3: 00000000c0612006 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  trace_event_raw_event_synth+0x90/0x1d0
  action_trace+0x5b/0x70
  event_hist_trigger+0x4bd/0x4e0
  ? cpumask_next_and+0x20/0x30
  ? update_sd_lb_stats.constprop.0+0xf6/0x840
  ? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x125/0x550
  ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90
  ? sched_clock_cpu+0xe/0xd0
  ? lock_release+0x155/0x440
  ? update_load_avg+0x8c/0x6f0
  ? enqueue_entity+0x18a/0x920
  ? __rb_reserve_next+0xe5/0x460
  ? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
  event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0
  trace_event_buffer_commit+0x1ae/0x240
  trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch+0x114/0x170
  __traceiter_sched_switch+0x39/0x50
  __schedule+0x431/0xb00
  schedule_idle+0x28/0x40
  do_idle+0x198/0x2e0
  cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20
  secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xc2/0xcb

The reason is that the dynamic events array keeps track of the field
position of the fields array, via the field_pos variable in the
synth_field structure. Unfortunately, that field is a boolean for some
reason, which means any field_pos greater than 1 will be a bug (in this
case it was 2).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721191008.638bce34@oasis.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bd82631d7ccdc ("tracing: Add support for dynamic strings to synthetic events")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix bug in rb_per_cpu_empty() that might cause deadloop.</title>
<updated>2021-07-28T12:37:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haoran Luo</name>
<email>www@aegistudio.net</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-21T14:12:07+00:00</published>
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commit 67f0d6d9883c13174669f88adac4f0ee656cc16a upstream.

The "rb_per_cpu_empty()" misinterpret the condition (as not-empty) when
"head_page" and "commit_page" of "struct ring_buffer_per_cpu" points to
the same buffer page, whose "buffer_data_page" is empty and "read" field
is non-zero.

An error scenario could be constructed as followed (kernel perspective):

1. All pages in the buffer has been accessed by reader(s) so that all of
them will have non-zero "read" field.

2. Read and clear all buffer pages so that "rb_num_of_entries()" will
return 0 rendering there's no more data to read. It is also required
that the "read_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to the same
page, while "head_page" is the next page of them.

3. Invoke "ring_buffer_lock_reserve()" with large enough "length"
so that it shot pass the end of current tail buffer page. Now the
"head_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to the same page.

4. Discard current event with "ring_buffer_discard_commit()", so that
"head_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to a page whose buffer
data page is now empty.

When the error scenario has been constructed, "tracing_read_pipe" will
be trapped inside a deadloop: "trace_empty()" returns 0 since
"rb_per_cpu_empty()" returns 0 when it hits the CPU containing such
constructed ring buffer. Then "trace_find_next_entry_inc()" always
return NULL since "rb_num_of_entries()" reports there's no more entry
to read. Finally "trace_seq_to_user()" returns "-EBUSY" spanking
"tracing_read_pipe" back to the start of the "waitagain" loop.

I've also written a proof-of-concept script to construct the scenario
and trigger the bug automatically, you can use it to trace and validate
my reasoning above:

  https://github.com/aegistudio/RingBufferDetonator.git

Tests has been carried out on linux kernel 5.14-rc2
(2734d6c1b1a089fb593ef6a23d4b70903526fe0c), my fixed version
of kernel (for testing whether my update fixes the bug) and
some older kernels (for range of affected kernels). Test result is
also attached to the proof-of-concept repository.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/YPaNxsIlb2yjSi5Y@aegistudio/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/YPgrN85WL9VyrZ55@aegistudio

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bf41a158cacba ("ring-buffer: make reentrant")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Haoran Luo &lt;www@aegistudio.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 67f0d6d9883c13174669f88adac4f0ee656cc16a upstream.

The "rb_per_cpu_empty()" misinterpret the condition (as not-empty) when
"head_page" and "commit_page" of "struct ring_buffer_per_cpu" points to
the same buffer page, whose "buffer_data_page" is empty and "read" field
is non-zero.

An error scenario could be constructed as followed (kernel perspective):

1. All pages in the buffer has been accessed by reader(s) so that all of
them will have non-zero "read" field.

2. Read and clear all buffer pages so that "rb_num_of_entries()" will
return 0 rendering there's no more data to read. It is also required
that the "read_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to the same
page, while "head_page" is the next page of them.

3. Invoke "ring_buffer_lock_reserve()" with large enough "length"
so that it shot pass the end of current tail buffer page. Now the
"head_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to the same page.

4. Discard current event with "ring_buffer_discard_commit()", so that
"head_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to a page whose buffer
data page is now empty.

When the error scenario has been constructed, "tracing_read_pipe" will
be trapped inside a deadloop: "trace_empty()" returns 0 since
"rb_per_cpu_empty()" returns 0 when it hits the CPU containing such
constructed ring buffer. Then "trace_find_next_entry_inc()" always
return NULL since "rb_num_of_entries()" reports there's no more entry
to read. Finally "trace_seq_to_user()" returns "-EBUSY" spanking
"tracing_read_pipe" back to the start of the "waitagain" loop.

I've also written a proof-of-concept script to construct the scenario
and trigger the bug automatically, you can use it to trace and validate
my reasoning above:

  https://github.com/aegistudio/RingBufferDetonator.git

Tests has been carried out on linux kernel 5.14-rc2
(2734d6c1b1a089fb593ef6a23d4b70903526fe0c), my fixed version
of kernel (for testing whether my update fixes the bug) and
some older kernels (for range of affected kernels). Test result is
also attached to the proof-of-concept repository.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/YPaNxsIlb2yjSi5Y@aegistudio/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/YPgrN85WL9VyrZ55@aegistudio

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bf41a158cacba ("ring-buffer: make reentrant")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Haoran Luo &lt;www@aegistudio.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"</title>
<updated>2021-07-28T12:37:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-21T15:00:53+00:00</published>
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commit 1e3bac71c5053c99d438771fc9fa5082ae5d90aa upstream.

Currently the histogram logic allows the user to write "cpu" in as an
event field, and it will record the CPU that the event happened on.

The problem with this is that there's a lot of events that have "cpu"
as a real field, and using "cpu" as the CPU it ran on, makes it
impossible to run histograms on the "cpu" field of events.

For example, if I want to have a histogram on the count of the
workqueue_queue_work event on its cpu field, running:

 &gt;# echo 'hist:keys=cpu' &gt; events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger

Gives a misleading and wrong result.

Change the command to "common_cpu" as no event should have "common_*"
fields as that's a reserved name for fields used by all events. And
this makes sense here as common_cpu would be a field used by all events.

Now we can even do:

 &gt;# echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu if cpu &lt; 100' &gt; events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
 &gt;# cat events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/hist
 # event histogram
 #
 # trigger info: hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if cpu &lt; 100 [active]
 #

 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          2 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          4 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          7, cpu:          7 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          7 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          1 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          6 } hitcount:          2
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          5 } hitcount:          2
 { common_cpu:          1, cpu:          1 } hitcount:          4
 { common_cpu:          6, cpu:          6 } hitcount:          4
 { common_cpu:          5, cpu:          5 } hitcount:         14
 { common_cpu:          4, cpu:          4 } hitcount:         26
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          0 } hitcount:         39
 { common_cpu:          2, cpu:          2 } hitcount:        184

Now for backward compatibility, I added a trick. If "cpu" is used, and
the field is not found, it will fall back to "common_cpu" and work as
it did before. This way, it will still work for old programs that use
"cpu" to get the actual CPU, but if the event has a "cpu" as a field, it
will get that event's "cpu" field, which is probably what it wants
anyway.

I updated the tracefs/README to include documentation about both the
common_timestamp and the common_cpu. This way, if that text is present in
the README, then an application can know that common_cpu is supported over
just plain "cpu".

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721110053.26b4f641@oasis.local.home

Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8b7622bf94a44 ("tracing: Add cpu field for hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1e3bac71c5053c99d438771fc9fa5082ae5d90aa upstream.

Currently the histogram logic allows the user to write "cpu" in as an
event field, and it will record the CPU that the event happened on.

The problem with this is that there's a lot of events that have "cpu"
as a real field, and using "cpu" as the CPU it ran on, makes it
impossible to run histograms on the "cpu" field of events.

For example, if I want to have a histogram on the count of the
workqueue_queue_work event on its cpu field, running:

 &gt;# echo 'hist:keys=cpu' &gt; events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger

Gives a misleading and wrong result.

Change the command to "common_cpu" as no event should have "common_*"
fields as that's a reserved name for fields used by all events. And
this makes sense here as common_cpu would be a field used by all events.

Now we can even do:

 &gt;# echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu if cpu &lt; 100' &gt; events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
 &gt;# cat events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/hist
 # event histogram
 #
 # trigger info: hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if cpu &lt; 100 [active]
 #

 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          2 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          4 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          7, cpu:          7 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          7 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          1 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          6 } hitcount:          2
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          5 } hitcount:          2
 { common_cpu:          1, cpu:          1 } hitcount:          4
 { common_cpu:          6, cpu:          6 } hitcount:          4
 { common_cpu:          5, cpu:          5 } hitcount:         14
 { common_cpu:          4, cpu:          4 } hitcount:         26
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          0 } hitcount:         39
 { common_cpu:          2, cpu:          2 } hitcount:        184

Now for backward compatibility, I added a trick. If "cpu" is used, and
the field is not found, it will fall back to "common_cpu" and work as
it did before. This way, it will still work for old programs that use
"cpu" to get the actual CPU, but if the event has a "cpu" as a field, it
will get that event's "cpu" field, which is probably what it wants
anyway.

I updated the tracefs/README to include documentation about both the
common_timestamp and the common_cpu. This way, if that text is present in
the README, then an application can know that common_cpu is supported over
just plain "cpu".

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721110053.26b4f641@oasis.local.home

Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8b7622bf94a44 ("tracing: Add cpu field for hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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