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<title>blktrace: fix unlocked access to init/start-stop/teardown</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T18:42:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-05T16:13:48+00:00</published>
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commit 1f2cac107c591c24b60b115d6050adc213d10fc0 upstream.

sg.c calls into the blktrace functions without holding the proper queue
mutex for doing setup, start/stop, or teardown.

Add internal unlocked variants, and export the ones that do the proper
locking.

Fixes: 6da127ad0918 ("blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices")
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 1f2cac107c591c24b60b115d6050adc213d10fc0 upstream.

sg.c calls into the blktrace functions without holding the proper queue
mutex for doing setup, start/stop, or teardown.

Add internal unlocked variants, and export the ones that do the proper
locking.

Fixes: 6da127ad0918 ("blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices")
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete &amp; sysfs ops</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T18:42:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-20T19:12:20+00:00</published>
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commit 5acb3cc2c2e9d3020a4fee43763c6463767f1572 upstream.

The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(s_active#228);
                               lock(&amp;bdev-&gt;bd_mutex/1);
                               lock(s_active#228);
  lock(&amp;bdev-&gt;bd_mutex);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a
partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing
tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that
partition.

The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn-&gt;count)
on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require
a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is
treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code.

The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the
ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device
file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being
removed.

Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new
blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect
access to the blk_trace structure.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;

Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how
the code used to work.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 5acb3cc2c2e9d3020a4fee43763c6463767f1572 upstream.

The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(s_active#228);
                               lock(&amp;bdev-&gt;bd_mutex/1);
                               lock(s_active#228);
  lock(&amp;bdev-&gt;bd_mutex);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a
partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing
tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that
partition.

The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn-&gt;count)
on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require
a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is
treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code.

The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the
ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device
file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being
removed.

Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new
blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect
access to the blk_trace structure.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;

Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how
the code used to work.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix trace_pipe behavior for instance traces</title>
<updated>2018-01-01T20:51:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tahsin Erdogan</name>
<email>tahsin@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-17T10:23:48+00:00</published>
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commit 75df6e688ccd517e339a7c422ef7ad73045b18a2 upstream.

When reading data from trace_pipe, tracing_wait_pipe() performs a
check to see if tracing has been turned off after some data was read.
Currently, this check always looks at global trace state, but it
should be checking the trace instance where trace_pipe is located at.

Because of this bug, cat instances/i1/trace_pipe in the following
script will immediately exit instead of waiting for data:

cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
echo 0 &gt; tracing_on
mkdir -p instances/i1
echo 1 &gt; instances/i1/tracing_on
echo 1 &gt; instances/i1/events/sched/sched_process_exec/enable
cat instances/i1/trace_pipe

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170917102348.1615-1-tahsin@google.com

Fixes: 10246fa35d4f ("tracing: give easy way to clear trace buffer")
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 75df6e688ccd517e339a7c422ef7ad73045b18a2 upstream.

When reading data from trace_pipe, tracing_wait_pipe() performs a
check to see if tracing has been turned off after some data was read.
Currently, this check always looks at global trace state, but it
should be checking the trace instance where trace_pipe is located at.

Because of this bug, cat instances/i1/trace_pipe in the following
script will immediately exit instead of waiting for data:

cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
echo 0 &gt; tracing_on
mkdir -p instances/i1
echo 1 &gt; instances/i1/tracing_on
echo 1 &gt; instances/i1/events/sched/sched_process_exec/enable
cat instances/i1/trace_pipe

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170917102348.1615-1-tahsin@google.com

Fixes: 10246fa35d4f ("tracing: give easy way to clear trace buffer")
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Erase irqsoff trace with empty write</title>
<updated>2018-01-01T20:51:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bo Yan</name>
<email>byan@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-18T17:03:35+00:00</published>
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commit 8dd33bcb7050dd6f8c1432732f930932c9d3a33e upstream.

One convenient way to erase trace is "echo &gt; trace". However, this
is currently broken if the current tracer is irqsoff tracer. This
is because irqsoff tracer use max_buffer as the default trace
buffer.

Set the max_buffer as the one to be cleared when it's the trace
buffer currently in use.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1505754215-29411-1-git-send-email-byan@nvidia.com

Cc: &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 4acd4d00f ("tracing: give easy way to clear trace buffer")
Signed-off-by: Bo Yan &lt;byan@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 8dd33bcb7050dd6f8c1432732f930932c9d3a33e upstream.

One convenient way to erase trace is "echo &gt; trace". However, this
is currently broken if the current tracer is irqsoff tracer. This
is because irqsoff tracer use max_buffer as the default trace
buffer.

Set the max_buffer as the one to be cleared when it's the trace
buffer currently in use.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1505754215-29411-1-git-send-email-byan@nvidia.com

Cc: &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 4acd4d00f ("tracing: give easy way to clear trace buffer")
Signed-off-by: Bo Yan &lt;byan@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Apply trace_clock changes to instance max buffer</title>
<updated>2017-11-26T13:50:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baohong Liu</name>
<email>baohong.liu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-05T21:57:19+00:00</published>
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commit 170b3b1050e28d1ba0700e262f0899ffa4fccc52 upstream.

Currently trace_clock timestamps are applied to both regular and max
buffers only for global trace. For instance trace, trace_clock
timestamps are applied only to regular buffer. But, regular and max
buffers can be swapped, for example, following a snapshot. So, for
instance trace, bad timestamps can be seen following a snapshot.
Let's apply trace_clock timestamps to instance max buffer as well.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ebdb168d0be042dcdf51f81e696b17fabe3609c1.1504642143.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Fixes: 277ba0446 ("tracing: Add interface to allow multiple trace buffers")
Signed-off-by: Baohong Liu &lt;baohong.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 170b3b1050e28d1ba0700e262f0899ffa4fccc52 upstream.

Currently trace_clock timestamps are applied to both regular and max
buffers only for global trace. For instance trace, trace_clock
timestamps are applied only to regular buffer. But, regular and max
buffers can be swapped, for example, following a snapshot. So, for
instance trace, bad timestamps can be seen following a snapshot.
Let's apply trace_clock timestamps to instance max buffer as well.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ebdb168d0be042dcdf51f81e696b17fabe3609c1.1504642143.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Fixes: 277ba0446 ("tracing: Add interface to allow multiple trace buffers")
Signed-off-by: Baohong Liu &lt;baohong.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Fix selftest goto location on error</title>
<updated>2017-11-26T13:50:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-01T16:04:09+00:00</published>
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commit 46320a6acc4fb58f04bcf78c4c942cc43b20f986 upstream.

In the second iteration of trace_selftest_ops(), the error goto label is
wrong in the case where trace_selftest_test_global_cnt is off. In the
case of error, it leaks the dynamic ops that was allocated.

Fixes: 95950c2e ("ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 46320a6acc4fb58f04bcf78c4c942cc43b20f986 upstream.

In the second iteration of trace_selftest_ops(), the error goto label is
wrong in the case where trace_selftest_test_global_cnt is off. In the
case of error, it leaks the dynamic ops that was allocated.

Fixes: 95950c2e ("ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf: Avoid horrible stack usage</title>
<updated>2017-11-11T13:34:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra (Intel)</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-16T11:47:34+00:00</published>
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commit 86038c5ea81b519a8a1fcfcd5e4599aab0cdd119 upstream.

Both Linus (most recent) and Steve (a while ago) reported that perf
related callbacks have massive stack bloat.

The problem is that software events need a pt_regs in order to
properly report the event location and unwind stack. And because we
could not assume one was present we allocated one on stack and filled
it with minimal bits required for operation.

Now, pt_regs is quite large, so this is undesirable. Furthermore it
turns out that most sites actually have a pt_regs pointer available,
making this even more onerous, as the stack space is pointless waste.

This patch addresses the problem by observing that software events
have well defined nesting semantics, therefore we can use static
per-cpu storage instead of on-stack.

Linus made the further observation that all but the scheduler callers
of perf_sw_event() have a pt_regs available, so we change the regular
perf_sw_event() to require a valid pt_regs (where it used to be
optional) and add perf_sw_event_sched() for the scheduler.

We have a scheduler specific call instead of a more generic _noregs()
like construct because we can assume non-recursion from the scheduler
and thereby simplify the code further (_noregs would have to put the
recursion context call inline in order to assertain which __perf_regs
element to use).

One last note on the implementation of perf_trace_buf_prepare(); we
allow .regs = NULL for those cases where we already have a pt_regs
pointer available and do not need another.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Javi Merino &lt;javi.merino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141216115041.GW3337@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 86038c5ea81b519a8a1fcfcd5e4599aab0cdd119 upstream.

Both Linus (most recent) and Steve (a while ago) reported that perf
related callbacks have massive stack bloat.

The problem is that software events need a pt_regs in order to
properly report the event location and unwind stack. And because we
could not assume one was present we allocated one on stack and filled
it with minimal bits required for operation.

Now, pt_regs is quite large, so this is undesirable. Furthermore it
turns out that most sites actually have a pt_regs pointer available,
making this even more onerous, as the stack space is pointless waste.

This patch addresses the problem by observing that software events
have well defined nesting semantics, therefore we can use static
per-cpu storage instead of on-stack.

Linus made the further observation that all but the scheduler callers
of perf_sw_event() have a pt_regs available, so we change the regular
perf_sw_event() to require a valid pt_regs (where it used to be
optional) and add perf_sw_event_sched() for the scheduler.

We have a scheduler specific call instead of a more generic _noregs()
like construct because we can assume non-recursion from the scheduler
and thereby simplify the code further (_noregs would have to put the
recursion context call inline in order to assertain which __perf_regs
element to use).

One last note on the implementation of perf_trace_buf_prepare(); we
allow .regs = NULL for those cases where we already have a pt_regs
pointer available and do not need another.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Javi Merino &lt;javi.merino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141216115041.GW3337@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix freeing of filter in create_filter() when set_str is false</title>
<updated>2017-11-11T13:33:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-23T16:46:27+00:00</published>
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commit 8b0db1a5bdfcee0dbfa89607672598ae203c9045 upstream.

Performing the following task with kmemleak enabled:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/
 # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq &gt;' &gt; trigger
 # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq &gt; 31' &gt; trigger
 # echo scan &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff8800b9290308 (size 32):
  comm "bash", pid 1114, jiffies 4294848451 (age 141.139s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff81cef5aa&gt;] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [&lt;ffffffff81357938&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x158/0x290
    [&lt;ffffffff81261c09&gt;] create_filter_start.constprop.28+0x99/0x940
    [&lt;ffffffff812639c9&gt;] create_filter+0xa9/0x160
    [&lt;ffffffff81263bdc&gt;] create_event_filter+0xc/0x10
    [&lt;ffffffff812655e5&gt;] set_trigger_filter+0xe5/0x210
    [&lt;ffffffff812660c4&gt;] event_enable_trigger_func+0x324/0x490
    [&lt;ffffffff812652e2&gt;] event_trigger_write+0x1a2/0x260
    [&lt;ffffffff8138cf87&gt;] __vfs_write+0xd7/0x380
    [&lt;ffffffff8138f421&gt;] vfs_write+0x101/0x260
    [&lt;ffffffff8139187b&gt;] SyS_write+0xab/0x130
    [&lt;ffffffff81cfd501&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe
    [&lt;ffffffffffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffffffffffff

The function create_filter() is passed a 'filterp' pointer that gets
allocated, and if "set_str" is true, it is up to the caller to free it, even
on error. The problem is that the pointer is not freed by create_filter()
when set_str is false. This is a bug, and it is not up to the caller to free
the filter on error if it doesn't care about the string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502705898-27571-2-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Fixes: 38b78eb85 ("tracing: Factorize filter creation")
Reported-by: Chunyu Hu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Chunyu Hu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 8b0db1a5bdfcee0dbfa89607672598ae203c9045 upstream.

Performing the following task with kmemleak enabled:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/
 # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq &gt;' &gt; trigger
 # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq &gt; 31' &gt; trigger
 # echo scan &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff8800b9290308 (size 32):
  comm "bash", pid 1114, jiffies 4294848451 (age 141.139s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff81cef5aa&gt;] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [&lt;ffffffff81357938&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x158/0x290
    [&lt;ffffffff81261c09&gt;] create_filter_start.constprop.28+0x99/0x940
    [&lt;ffffffff812639c9&gt;] create_filter+0xa9/0x160
    [&lt;ffffffff81263bdc&gt;] create_event_filter+0xc/0x10
    [&lt;ffffffff812655e5&gt;] set_trigger_filter+0xe5/0x210
    [&lt;ffffffff812660c4&gt;] event_enable_trigger_func+0x324/0x490
    [&lt;ffffffff812652e2&gt;] event_trigger_write+0x1a2/0x260
    [&lt;ffffffff8138cf87&gt;] __vfs_write+0xd7/0x380
    [&lt;ffffffff8138f421&gt;] vfs_write+0x101/0x260
    [&lt;ffffffff8139187b&gt;] SyS_write+0xab/0x130
    [&lt;ffffffff81cfd501&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe
    [&lt;ffffffffffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffffffffffff

The function create_filter() is passed a 'filterp' pointer that gets
allocated, and if "set_str" is true, it is up to the caller to free it, even
on error. The problem is that the pointer is not freed by create_filter()
when set_str is false. This is a bug, and it is not up to the caller to free
the filter on error if it doesn't care about the string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502705898-27571-2-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Fixes: 38b78eb85 ("tracing: Factorize filter creation")
Reported-by: Chunyu Hu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Chunyu Hu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>tracing: Fix kmemleak in instance_rmdir</title>
<updated>2017-11-11T13:33:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chunyu Hu</name>
<email>chuhu@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-20T10:36:09+00:00</published>
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commit db9108e054700c96322b0f0028546aa4e643cf0b upstream.

Hit the kmemleak when executing instance_rmdir, it forgot releasing
mem of tracing_cpumask. With this fix, the warn does not appear any
more.

unreferenced object 0xffff93a8dfaa7c18 (size 8):
  comm "mkdir", pid 1436, jiffies 4294763622 (age 9134.308s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff                          ........
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff88b6567a&gt;] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [&lt;ffffffff8861ea41&gt;] __kmalloc_node+0xf1/0x280
    [&lt;ffffffff88b505d3&gt;] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x23/0x30
    [&lt;ffffffff88b5060e&gt;] alloc_cpumask_var+0xe/0x10
    [&lt;ffffffff88571ab0&gt;] instance_mkdir+0x90/0x240
    [&lt;ffffffff886e5100&gt;] tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x40/0x70
    [&lt;ffffffff886565c9&gt;] vfs_mkdir+0x109/0x1b0
    [&lt;ffffffff8865b1d0&gt;] SyS_mkdir+0xd0/0x100
    [&lt;ffffffff88403857&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150
    [&lt;ffffffff88b710e7&gt;] return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x6a
    [&lt;ffffffffffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffffffffffff

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500546969-12594-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Fixes: ccfe9e42e451 ("tracing: Make tracing_cpumask available for all instances")
Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit db9108e054700c96322b0f0028546aa4e643cf0b upstream.

Hit the kmemleak when executing instance_rmdir, it forgot releasing
mem of tracing_cpumask. With this fix, the warn does not appear any
more.

unreferenced object 0xffff93a8dfaa7c18 (size 8):
  comm "mkdir", pid 1436, jiffies 4294763622 (age 9134.308s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff                          ........
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff88b6567a&gt;] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [&lt;ffffffff8861ea41&gt;] __kmalloc_node+0xf1/0x280
    [&lt;ffffffff88b505d3&gt;] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x23/0x30
    [&lt;ffffffff88b5060e&gt;] alloc_cpumask_var+0xe/0x10
    [&lt;ffffffff88571ab0&gt;] instance_mkdir+0x90/0x240
    [&lt;ffffffff886e5100&gt;] tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x40/0x70
    [&lt;ffffffff886565c9&gt;] vfs_mkdir+0x109/0x1b0
    [&lt;ffffffff8865b1d0&gt;] SyS_mkdir+0xd0/0x100
    [&lt;ffffffff88403857&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150
    [&lt;ffffffff88b710e7&gt;] return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x6a
    [&lt;ffffffffffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffffffffffff

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500546969-12594-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Fixes: ccfe9e42e451 ("tracing: Make tracing_cpumask available for all instances")
Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu &lt;chuhu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing/kprobes: Allow to create probe with a module name starting with a digit</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T17:30:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabrina Dubroca</name>
<email>sd@queasysnail.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-22T09:24:42+00:00</published>
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commit 9e52b32567126fe146f198971364f68d3bc5233f upstream.

Always try to parse an address, since kstrtoul() will safely fail when
given a symbol as input. If that fails (which will be the case for a
symbol), try to parse a symbol instead.

This allows creating a probe such as:

    p:probe/vlan_gro_receive 8021q:vlan_gro_receive+0

Which is necessary for this command to work:

    perf probe -m 8021q -a vlan_gro_receive

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd72d666f45b114e2c5b9cf7e27b91de1ec966f1.1498122881.git.sd@queasysnail.net

Fixes: 413d37d1e ("tracing: Add kprobe-based event tracer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: preserve the check that an addresses isn't used for
 a kretprobe]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 9e52b32567126fe146f198971364f68d3bc5233f upstream.

Always try to parse an address, since kstrtoul() will safely fail when
given a symbol as input. If that fails (which will be the case for a
symbol), try to parse a symbol instead.

This allows creating a probe such as:

    p:probe/vlan_gro_receive 8021q:vlan_gro_receive+0

Which is necessary for this command to work:

    perf probe -m 8021q -a vlan_gro_receive

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd72d666f45b114e2c5b9cf7e27b91de1ec966f1.1498122881.git.sd@queasysnail.net

Fixes: 413d37d1e ("tracing: Add kprobe-based event tracer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: preserve the check that an addresses isn't used for
 a kretprobe]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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