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<title>ring-buffer: Use flush_kernel_vmap_range() over flush_dcache_folio()</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2025-04-02T14:49:07+00:00</published>
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commit e4d4b8670c44cdd22212cab3c576e2d317efa67c upstream.

Some architectures do not have data cache coherency between user and
kernel space. For these architectures, the cache needs to be flushed on
both the kernel and user addresses so that user space can see the updates
the kernel has made.

Instead of using flush_dcache_folio() and playing with virt_to_folio()
within the call to that function, use flush_kernel_vmap_range() which
takes the virtual address and does the work for those architectures that
need it.

This also fixes a bug where the flush of the reader page only flushed one
page. If the sub-buffer order is 1 or more, where the sub-buffer size
would be greater than a page, it would miss the rest of the sub-buffer
content, as the "reader page" is not just a page, but the size of a
sub-buffer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAG48ez3w0my4Rwttbc5tEbNsme6tc0mrSN95thjXUFaJ3aQ6SA@mail.gmail.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250402144953.920792197@goodmis.org
Fixes: 117c39200d9d7 ("ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions");
Suggested-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit e4d4b8670c44cdd22212cab3c576e2d317efa67c upstream.

Some architectures do not have data cache coherency between user and
kernel space. For these architectures, the cache needs to be flushed on
both the kernel and user addresses so that user space can see the updates
the kernel has made.

Instead of using flush_dcache_folio() and playing with virt_to_folio()
within the call to that function, use flush_kernel_vmap_range() which
takes the virtual address and does the work for those architectures that
need it.

This also fixes a bug where the flush of the reader page only flushed one
page. If the sub-buffer order is 1 or more, where the sub-buffer size
would be greater than a page, it would miss the rest of the sub-buffer
content, as the "reader page" is not just a page, but the size of a
sub-buffer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAG48ez3w0my4Rwttbc5tEbNsme6tc0mrSN95thjXUFaJ3aQ6SA@mail.gmail.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250402144953.920792197@goodmis.org
Fixes: 117c39200d9d7 ("ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions");
Suggested-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Properly merge notrace hashes</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Chiu</name>
<email>andybnac@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-08T16:02:57+00:00</published>
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commit 04a80a34c22f4db245f553d8696d1318d1c00ece upstream.

The global notrace hash should be jointly decided by the intersection of
each subops's notrace hash, but not the filter hash.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250408160258.48563-1-andybnac@gmail.com
Fixes: 5fccc7552ccb ("ftrace: Add subops logic to allow one ops to manage many")
Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu &lt;andybnac@gmail.com&gt;
[ fixed removing of freeing of filter_hash ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 04a80a34c22f4db245f553d8696d1318d1c00ece upstream.

The global notrace hash should be jointly decided by the intersection of
each subops's notrace hash, but not the filter hash.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250408160258.48563-1-andybnac@gmail.com
Fixes: 5fccc7552ccb ("ftrace: Add subops logic to allow one ops to manage many")
Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu &lt;andybnac@gmail.com&gt;
[ fixed removing of freeing of filter_hash ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Add cond_resched() to ftrace_graph_set_hash()</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhoumin</name>
<email>teczm@foxmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-31T17:00:34+00:00</published>
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commit 42ea22e754ba4f2b86f8760ca27f6f71da2d982c upstream.

When the kernel contains a large number of functions that can be traced,
the loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash() may take a lot of time to execute.
This may trigger the softlockup watchdog.

Add cond_resched() within the loop to allow the kernel to remain
responsive even when processing a large number of functions.

This matches the cond_resched() that is used in other locations of the
code that iterates over all functions that can be traced.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b9b0c831bed26 ("ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/tencent_3E06CE338692017B5809534B9C5C03DA7705@qq.com
Signed-off-by: zhoumin &lt;teczm@foxmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 42ea22e754ba4f2b86f8760ca27f6f71da2d982c upstream.

When the kernel contains a large number of functions that can be traced,
the loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash() may take a lot of time to execute.
This may trigger the softlockup watchdog.

Add cond_resched() within the loop to allow the kernel to remain
responsive even when processing a large number of functions.

This matches the cond_resched() that is used in other locations of the
code that iterates over all functions that can be traced.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b9b0c831bed26 ("ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/tencent_3E06CE338692017B5809534B9C5C03DA7705@qq.com
Signed-off-by: zhoumin &lt;teczm@foxmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Do not add length to print format in synthetic events</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-07T19:41:39+00:00</published>
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commit e1a453a57bc76be678bd746f84e3d73f378a9511 upstream.

The following causes a vsnprintf fault:

  # echo 's:wake_lat char[] wakee; u64 delta;' &gt;&gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events
  # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts=common_timestamp.usecs if !(common_flags &amp; 0x18)' &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
  # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wake_lat,next_comm,$delta)' &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger

Because the synthetic event's "wakee" field is created as a dynamic string
(even though the string copied is not). The print format to print the
dynamic string changed from "%*s" to "%s" because another location
(__set_synth_event_print_fmt()) exported this to user space, and user
space did not need that. But it is still used in print_synth_event(), and
the output looks like:

          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [001] d..5.   193.428167: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)sshd-sessiondelta=155
    sshd-session-879     [001] d..5.   193.811080: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u34:5delta=58
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [002] d..5.   193.811198: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)bashdelta=91
            bash-880     [002] d..5.   193.811371: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u35:2delta=21
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [001] d..5.   193.811516: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)sshd-sessiondelta=129
    sshd-session-879     [001] d..5.   193.967576: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u34:5delta=50

The length isn't needed as the string is always nul terminated. Just print
the string and not add the length (which was hard coded to the max string
length anyway).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Douglas Raillard &lt;douglas.raillard@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407154139.69955768@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 4d38328eb442d ("tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str fields");
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit e1a453a57bc76be678bd746f84e3d73f378a9511 upstream.

The following causes a vsnprintf fault:

  # echo 's:wake_lat char[] wakee; u64 delta;' &gt;&gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events
  # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts=common_timestamp.usecs if !(common_flags &amp; 0x18)' &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
  # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wake_lat,next_comm,$delta)' &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger

Because the synthetic event's "wakee" field is created as a dynamic string
(even though the string copied is not). The print format to print the
dynamic string changed from "%*s" to "%s" because another location
(__set_synth_event_print_fmt()) exported this to user space, and user
space did not need that. But it is still used in print_synth_event(), and
the output looks like:

          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [001] d..5.   193.428167: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)sshd-sessiondelta=155
    sshd-session-879     [001] d..5.   193.811080: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u34:5delta=58
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [002] d..5.   193.811198: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)bashdelta=91
            bash-880     [002] d..5.   193.811371: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u35:2delta=21
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [001] d..5.   193.811516: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)sshd-sessiondelta=129
    sshd-session-879     [001] d..5.   193.967576: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u34:5delta=50

The length isn't needed as the string is always nul terminated. Just print
the string and not add the length (which was hard coded to the max string
length anyway).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Douglas Raillard &lt;douglas.raillard@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407154139.69955768@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 4d38328eb442d ("tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str fields");
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: fprobe events: Fix possible UAF on modules</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-31T14:05:07+00:00</published>
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commit dd941507a9486252d6fcf11814387666792020f3 upstream.

Commit ac91052f0ae5 ("tracing: tprobe-events: Fix leakage of module
refcount") moved try_module_get() from __find_tracepoint_module_cb()
to find_tracepoint() caller, but that introduced a possible UAF
because the module can be unloaded before try_module_get(). In this
case, the module object should be freed too. Thus, try_module_get()
does not only fail but may access to the freed object.

To avoid that, try_module_get() in __find_tracepoint_module_cb()
again.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/174342990779.781946.9138388479067729366.stgit@devnote2/

Fixes: ac91052f0ae5 ("tracing: tprobe-events: Fix leakage of module refcount")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit dd941507a9486252d6fcf11814387666792020f3 upstream.

Commit ac91052f0ae5 ("tracing: tprobe-events: Fix leakage of module
refcount") moved try_module_get() from __find_tracepoint_module_cb()
to find_tracepoint() caller, but that introduced a possible UAF
because the module can be unloaded before try_module_get(). In this
case, the module object should be freed too. Thus, try_module_get()
does not only fail but may access to the freed object.

To avoid that, try_module_get() in __find_tracepoint_module_cb()
again.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/174342990779.781946.9138388479067729366.stgit@devnote2/

Fixes: ac91052f0ae5 ("tracing: tprobe-events: Fix leakage of module refcount")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: probe-events: Add comments about entry data storing code</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:17:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-27T12:19:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bb9c6020f4c3a07a90dc36826cb5fbe83f09efd5 ]

Add comments about entry data storing code to __store_entry_arg() and
traceprobe_get_entry_data_size(). These are a bit complicated because of
building the entry data storing code and scanning it.

This just add comments, no behavior change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/174061715004.501424.333819546601401102.stgit@devnote2/

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250226102223.586d7119@gandalf.local.home/
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit bb9c6020f4c3a07a90dc36826cb5fbe83f09efd5 ]

Add comments about entry data storing code to __store_entry_arg() and
traceprobe_get_entry_data_size(). These are a bit complicated because of
building the entry data storing code and scanning it.

This just add comments, no behavior change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/174061715004.501424.333819546601401102.stgit@devnote2/

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250226102223.586d7119@gandalf.local.home/
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: fix return value in __ftrace_event_enable_disable for TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:17:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriele Paoloni</name>
<email>gpaoloni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-21T17:08:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0c588ac0ca6c22b774d9ad4a6594681fdfa57d9d ]

When __ftrace_event_enable_disable invokes the class callback to
unregister the event, the return value is not reported up to the
caller, hence leading to event unregister failures being silently
ignored.

This patch assigns the ret variable to the invocation of the
event unregister callback, so that its return value is stored
and reported to the caller, and it raises a warning in case
of error.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250321170821.101403-1-gpaoloni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Paoloni &lt;gpaoloni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0c588ac0ca6c22b774d9ad4a6594681fdfa57d9d ]

When __ftrace_event_enable_disable invokes the class callback to
unregister the event, the return value is not reported up to the
caller, hence leading to event unregister failures being silently
ignored.

This patch assigns the ret variable to the invocation of the
event unregister callback, so that its return value is stored
and reported to the caller, and it raises a warning in case
of error.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250321170821.101403-1-gpaoloni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Paoloni &lt;gpaoloni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Do not use PERF enums when perf is not defined</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:42:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-23T19:21:51+00:00</published>
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commit 8eb1518642738c6892bd629b46043513a3bf1a6a upstream.

An update was made to up the module ref count when a synthetic event is
registered for both trace and perf events. But if perf is not configured
in, the perf enums used will cause the kernel to fail to build.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Douglas Raillard &lt;douglas.raillard@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250323152151.528b5ced@batman.local.home
Fixes: 21581dd4e7ff ("tracing: Ensure module defining synth event cannot be unloaded while tracing")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503232230.TeREVy8R-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 8eb1518642738c6892bd629b46043513a3bf1a6a upstream.

An update was made to up the module ref count when a synthetic event is
registered for both trace and perf events. But if perf is not configured
in, the perf enums used will cause the kernel to fail to build.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Douglas Raillard &lt;douglas.raillard@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250323152151.528b5ced@batman.local.home
Fixes: 21581dd4e7ff ("tracing: Ensure module defining synth event cannot be unloaded while tracing")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503232230.TeREVy8R-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.."</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:42:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-27T23:53:11+00:00</published>
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commit ea8d7647f9ddf1f81e2027ed305299797299aa03 upstream.

The trace event verifier checks the formats of trace events to make sure
that they do not point at memory that is not in the trace event itself or
in data that will never be freed. If an event references data that was
allocated when the event triggered and that same data is freed before the
event is read, then the kernel can crash by reading freed memory.

The verifier runs at boot up (or module load) and scans the print formats
of the events and checks their arguments to make sure that dereferenced
pointers are safe. If the format uses "%*p.." the verifier will ignore it,
and that could be dangerous. Cover this case as well.

Also add to the sample code a use case of "%*pbl".

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bcba4d76-2c3f-4d11-baf0-02905db953dd@oracle.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250327195311.2d89ec66@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: Libo Chen &lt;libo.chen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Libo Chen &lt;libo.chen@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Libo Chen &lt;libo.chen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ea8d7647f9ddf1f81e2027ed305299797299aa03 upstream.

The trace event verifier checks the formats of trace events to make sure
that they do not point at memory that is not in the trace event itself or
in data that will never be freed. If an event references data that was
allocated when the event triggered and that same data is freed before the
event is read, then the kernel can crash by reading freed memory.

The verifier runs at boot up (or module load) and scans the print formats
of the events and checks their arguments to make sure that dereferenced
pointers are safe. If the format uses "%*p.." the verifier will ignore it,
and that could be dangerous. Cover this case as well.

Also add to the sample code a use case of "%*pbl".

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bcba4d76-2c3f-4d11-baf0-02905db953dd@oracle.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250327195311.2d89ec66@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: Libo Chen &lt;libo.chen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Libo Chen &lt;libo.chen@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Libo Chen &lt;libo.chen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing/osnoise: Fix possible recursive locking for cpus_read_lock()</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:42:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ran Xiaokai</name>
<email>ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-21T09:52:49+00:00</published>
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commit 7e6b3fcc9c5294aeafed0dbe1a09a1bc899bd0f2 upstream.

Lockdep reports this deadlock log:

osnoise: could not start sampling thread
============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
--------------------------------------------
       CPU0
       ----
  lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);
  lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);

 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  print_deadlock_bug+0x282/0x3c0
  __lock_acquire+0x1610/0x29a0
  lock_acquire+0xcb/0x2d0
  cpus_read_lock+0x49/0x120
  stop_per_cpu_kthreads+0x7/0x60
  start_kthread+0x103/0x120
  osnoise_hotplug_workfn+0x5e/0x90
  process_one_work+0x44f/0xb30
  worker_thread+0x33e/0x5e0
  kthread+0x206/0x3b0
  ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

This is the deadlock scenario:
osnoise_hotplug_workfn()
  guard(cpus_read_lock)();      // first lock call
  start_kthread(cpu)
    if (IS_ERR(kthread)) {
      stop_per_cpu_kthreads(); {
        cpus_read_lock();      // second lock call. Cause the AA deadlock
      }
    }

It is not necessary to call stop_per_cpu_kthreads() which stops osnoise
kthread for every other CPUs in the system if a failure occurs during
hotplug of a certain CPU.
For start_per_cpu_kthreads(), if the start_kthread() call fails,
this function calls stop_per_cpu_kthreads() to handle the error.
Therefore, similarly, there is no need to call stop_per_cpu_kthreads()
again within start_kthread().
So just remove stop_per_cpu_kthreads() from start_kthread to solve this issue.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250321095249.2739397-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com
Fixes: c8895e271f79 ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai &lt;ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 7e6b3fcc9c5294aeafed0dbe1a09a1bc899bd0f2 upstream.

Lockdep reports this deadlock log:

osnoise: could not start sampling thread
============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
--------------------------------------------
       CPU0
       ----
  lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);
  lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);

 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  print_deadlock_bug+0x282/0x3c0
  __lock_acquire+0x1610/0x29a0
  lock_acquire+0xcb/0x2d0
  cpus_read_lock+0x49/0x120
  stop_per_cpu_kthreads+0x7/0x60
  start_kthread+0x103/0x120
  osnoise_hotplug_workfn+0x5e/0x90
  process_one_work+0x44f/0xb30
  worker_thread+0x33e/0x5e0
  kthread+0x206/0x3b0
  ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

This is the deadlock scenario:
osnoise_hotplug_workfn()
  guard(cpus_read_lock)();      // first lock call
  start_kthread(cpu)
    if (IS_ERR(kthread)) {
      stop_per_cpu_kthreads(); {
        cpus_read_lock();      // second lock call. Cause the AA deadlock
      }
    }

It is not necessary to call stop_per_cpu_kthreads() which stops osnoise
kthread for every other CPUs in the system if a failure occurs during
hotplug of a certain CPU.
For start_per_cpu_kthreads(), if the start_kthread() call fails,
this function calls stop_per_cpu_kthreads() to handle the error.
Therefore, similarly, there is no need to call stop_per_cpu_kthreads()
again within start_kthread().
So just remove stop_per_cpu_kthreads() from start_kthread to solve this issue.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250321095249.2739397-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com
Fixes: c8895e271f79 ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai &lt;ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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