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<title>tracing/kprobe: Check whether the non-suffixed symbol is notrace</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:36:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-29T08:31:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c7411a1a126f649be71526a36d4afac9e5aefa13 ]

Check whether the non-suffixed symbol is notrace, since suffixed
symbols are generated by the compilers for optimization. Based on
these suffixed symbols, notrace check might not work because
some of them are just a partial code of the original function.
(e.g. cold-cache (unlikely) code is separated from original
 function as FUNCTION.cold.XX)

For example, without this fix,
  # echo p device_add.cold.67 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
  sh: write error: Invalid argument

  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/error_log
  [  135.491035] trace_kprobe: error: Failed to register probe event
    Command: p device_add.cold.67
               ^
  # dmesg | tail -n 1
  [  135.488599] trace_kprobe: Could not probe notrace function device_add.cold.67

With this,
  # echo p device_add.cold.66 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list
  ffffffff81599de9  k  device_add.cold.66+0x0    [DISABLED]

Actually, kprobe blacklist already did similar thing,
see within_kprobe_blacklist().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157233790394.6706.18243942030937189679.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 45408c4f9250 ("tracing: kprobes: Prohibit probing on notrace function")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@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 c7411a1a126f649be71526a36d4afac9e5aefa13 ]

Check whether the non-suffixed symbol is notrace, since suffixed
symbols are generated by the compilers for optimization. Based on
these suffixed symbols, notrace check might not work because
some of them are just a partial code of the original function.
(e.g. cold-cache (unlikely) code is separated from original
 function as FUNCTION.cold.XX)

For example, without this fix,
  # echo p device_add.cold.67 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
  sh: write error: Invalid argument

  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/error_log
  [  135.491035] trace_kprobe: error: Failed to register probe event
    Command: p device_add.cold.67
               ^
  # dmesg | tail -n 1
  [  135.488599] trace_kprobe: Could not probe notrace function device_add.cold.67

With this,
  # echo p device_add.cold.66 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list
  ffffffff81599de9  k  device_add.cold.66+0x0    [DISABLED]

Actually, kprobe blacklist already did similar thing,
see within_kprobe_blacklist().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157233790394.6706.18243942030937189679.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 45408c4f9250 ("tracing: kprobes: Prohibit probing on notrace function")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@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: use kvcalloc for tgid_map array allocation</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:36:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuming Han</name>
<email>yuming.han@unisoc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-24T03:34:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6ee40511cb838f9ced002dff7131bca87e3ccbdd ]

Fail to allocate memory for tgid_map, because it requires order-6 page.
detail as:

c3 sh: page allocation failure: order:6,
   mode:0x140c0c0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null)
c3 sh cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
c3 CPU: 3 PID: 5632 Comm: sh Tainted: G        W  O    4.14.133+ #10
c3 Hardware name: Generic DT based system
c3 Backtrace:
c3 [&lt;c010bdbc&gt;] (dump_backtrace) from [&lt;c010c08c&gt;](show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
c3 [&lt;c010c074&gt;] (show_stack) from [&lt;c0993c54&gt;](dump_stack+0x84/0xa4)
c3 [&lt;c0993bd0&gt;] (dump_stack) from [&lt;c0229858&gt;](warn_alloc+0xc4/0x19c)
c3 [&lt;c0229798&gt;] (warn_alloc) from [&lt;c022a6e4&gt;](__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd18/0xf28)
c3 [&lt;c02299cc&gt;] (__alloc_pages_nodemask) from [&lt;c0248344&gt;](kmalloc_order+0x20/0x38)
c3 [&lt;c0248324&gt;] (kmalloc_order) from [&lt;c0248380&gt;](kmalloc_order_trace+0x24/0x108)
c3 [&lt;c024835c&gt;] (kmalloc_order_trace) from [&lt;c01e6078&gt;](set_tracer_flag+0xb0/0x158)
c3 [&lt;c01e5fc8&gt;] (set_tracer_flag) from [&lt;c01e6404&gt;](trace_options_core_write+0x7c/0xcc)
c3 [&lt;c01e6388&gt;] (trace_options_core_write) from [&lt;c0278b1c&gt;](__vfs_write+0x40/0x14c)
c3 [&lt;c0278adc&gt;] (__vfs_write) from [&lt;c0278e10&gt;](vfs_write+0xc4/0x198)
c3 [&lt;c0278d4c&gt;] (vfs_write) from [&lt;c027906c&gt;](SyS_write+0x6c/0xd0)
c3 [&lt;c0279000&gt;] (SyS_write) from [&lt;c01079a0&gt;](ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54)

Switch to use kvcalloc to avoid unexpected allocation failures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571888070-24425-1-git-send-email-chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com

Signed-off-by: Yuming Han &lt;yuming.han@unisoc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;chunyan.zhang@unisoc.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 6ee40511cb838f9ced002dff7131bca87e3ccbdd ]

Fail to allocate memory for tgid_map, because it requires order-6 page.
detail as:

c3 sh: page allocation failure: order:6,
   mode:0x140c0c0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null)
c3 sh cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
c3 CPU: 3 PID: 5632 Comm: sh Tainted: G        W  O    4.14.133+ #10
c3 Hardware name: Generic DT based system
c3 Backtrace:
c3 [&lt;c010bdbc&gt;] (dump_backtrace) from [&lt;c010c08c&gt;](show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
c3 [&lt;c010c074&gt;] (show_stack) from [&lt;c0993c54&gt;](dump_stack+0x84/0xa4)
c3 [&lt;c0993bd0&gt;] (dump_stack) from [&lt;c0229858&gt;](warn_alloc+0xc4/0x19c)
c3 [&lt;c0229798&gt;] (warn_alloc) from [&lt;c022a6e4&gt;](__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd18/0xf28)
c3 [&lt;c02299cc&gt;] (__alloc_pages_nodemask) from [&lt;c0248344&gt;](kmalloc_order+0x20/0x38)
c3 [&lt;c0248324&gt;] (kmalloc_order) from [&lt;c0248380&gt;](kmalloc_order_trace+0x24/0x108)
c3 [&lt;c024835c&gt;] (kmalloc_order_trace) from [&lt;c01e6078&gt;](set_tracer_flag+0xb0/0x158)
c3 [&lt;c01e5fc8&gt;] (set_tracer_flag) from [&lt;c01e6404&gt;](trace_options_core_write+0x7c/0xcc)
c3 [&lt;c01e6388&gt;] (trace_options_core_write) from [&lt;c0278b1c&gt;](__vfs_write+0x40/0x14c)
c3 [&lt;c0278adc&gt;] (__vfs_write) from [&lt;c0278e10&gt;](vfs_write+0xc4/0x198)
c3 [&lt;c0278d4c&gt;] (vfs_write) from [&lt;c027906c&gt;](SyS_write+0x6c/0xd0)
c3 [&lt;c0279000&gt;] (SyS_write) from [&lt;c01079a0&gt;](ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54)

Switch to use kvcalloc to avoid unexpected allocation failures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571888070-24425-1-git-send-email-chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com

Signed-off-by: Yuming Han &lt;yuming.han@unisoc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;chunyan.zhang@unisoc.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: Lock event_mutex before synth_event_mutex</title>
<updated>2019-12-05T08:19:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-05T09:00:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fc800a10be26017f8f338bc8e500d48e3e6429d9 ]

synthetic event is using synth_event_mutex for protecting
synth_event_list, and event_trigger_write() path acquires
locks as below order.

event_trigger_write(event_mutex)
  -&gt;trigger_process_regex(trigger_cmd_mutex)
    -&gt;event_hist_trigger_func(synth_event_mutex)

On the other hand, synthetic event creation and deletion paths
call trace_add_event_call() and trace_remove_event_call()
which acquires event_mutex. In that case, if we keep the
synth_event_mutex locked while registering/unregistering synthetic
events, its dependency will be inversed.

To avoid this issue, current synthetic event is using a 2 phase
process to create/delete events. For example, it searches existing
events under synth_event_mutex to check for event-name conflicts, and
unlocks synth_event_mutex, then registers a new event under event_mutex
locked. Finally, it locks synth_event_mutex and tries to add the
new event to the list. But it can introduce complexity and a chance
for name conflicts.

To solve this simpler, this introduces trace_add_event_call_nolock()
and trace_remove_event_call_nolock() which don't acquire
event_mutex inside. synthetic event can lock event_mutex before
synth_event_mutex to solve the lock dependency issue simpler.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154140844377.17322.13781091165954002713.stgit@devbox

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@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 fc800a10be26017f8f338bc8e500d48e3e6429d9 ]

synthetic event is using synth_event_mutex for protecting
synth_event_list, and event_trigger_write() path acquires
locks as below order.

event_trigger_write(event_mutex)
  -&gt;trigger_process_regex(trigger_cmd_mutex)
    -&gt;event_hist_trigger_func(synth_event_mutex)

On the other hand, synthetic event creation and deletion paths
call trace_add_event_call() and trace_remove_event_call()
which acquires event_mutex. In that case, if we keep the
synth_event_mutex locked while registering/unregistering synthetic
events, its dependency will be inversed.

To avoid this issue, current synthetic event is using a 2 phase
process to create/delete events. For example, it searches existing
events under synth_event_mutex to check for event-name conflicts, and
unlocks synth_event_mutex, then registers a new event under event_mutex
locked. Finally, it locks synth_event_mutex and tries to add the
new event to the list. But it can introduce complexity and a chance
for name conflicts.

To solve this simpler, this introduces trace_add_event_call_nolock()
and trace_remove_event_call_nolock() which don't acquire
event_mutex inside. synthetic event can lock event_mutex before
synth_event_mutex to solve the lock dependency issue simpler.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154140844377.17322.13781091165954002713.stgit@devbox

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix "gfp_t" format for synthetic events</title>
<updated>2019-11-10T10:27:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhengjun Xing</name>
<email>zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-18T01:20:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9fa8c9c647be624e91b09ecffa7cd97ee0600b40 ]

In the format of synthetic events, the "gfp_t" is shown as "signed:1",
but in fact the "gfp_t" is "unsigned", should be shown as "signed:0".

The issue can be reproduced by the following commands:

echo 'memlatency u64 lat; unsigned int order; gfp_t gfp_flags; int migratetype' &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
cat  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/memlatency/format

name: memlatency
ID: 2233
format:
        field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4; signed:1;

        field:u64 lat;  offset:8;       size:8; signed:0;
        field:unsigned int order;       offset:16;      size:4; signed:0;
        field:gfp_t gfp_flags;  offset:24;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int migratetype;  offset:32;      size:4; signed:1;

print fmt: "lat=%llu, order=%u, gfp_flags=%x, migratetype=%d", REC-&gt;lat, REC-&gt;order, REC-&gt;gfp_flags, REC-&gt;migratetype

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191018012034.6404-1-zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhengjun Xing &lt;zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.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 9fa8c9c647be624e91b09ecffa7cd97ee0600b40 ]

In the format of synthetic events, the "gfp_t" is shown as "signed:1",
but in fact the "gfp_t" is "unsigned", should be shown as "signed:0".

The issue can be reproduced by the following commands:

echo 'memlatency u64 lat; unsigned int order; gfp_t gfp_flags; int migratetype' &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
cat  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/memlatency/format

name: memlatency
ID: 2233
format:
        field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4; signed:1;

        field:u64 lat;  offset:8;       size:8; signed:0;
        field:unsigned int order;       offset:16;      size:4; signed:0;
        field:gfp_t gfp_flags;  offset:24;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int migratetype;  offset:32;      size:4; signed:1;

print fmt: "lat=%llu, order=%u, gfp_flags=%x, migratetype=%d", REC-&gt;lat, REC-&gt;order, REC-&gt;gfp_flags, REC-&gt;migratetype

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191018012034.6404-1-zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhengjun Xing &lt;zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.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: Initialize iter-&gt;seq after zeroing in tracing_read_pipe()</title>
<updated>2019-11-06T12:06:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-11T14:21:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d303de1fcf344ff7c15ed64c3f48a991c9958775 ]

A customer reported the following softlockup:

[899688.160002] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [test.sh:16464]
[899688.160002] CPU: 0 PID: 16464 Comm: test.sh Not tainted 4.12.14-6.23-azure #1 SLE12-SP4
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] RSP: 0018:ffffa86784d4fde8 EFLAGS: 00000257 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff12
[899688.160002] RAX: ffffffff970fea00 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] RDX: ffffffff00000001 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: ffffffff970fea00
[899688.160002] RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b59014720d8
[899688.160002] R13: ffff8b59014720c0 R14: ffff8b5901471090 R15: ffff8b5901470000
[899688.160002]  tracing_read_pipe+0x336/0x3c0
[899688.160002]  __vfs_read+0x26/0x140
[899688.160002]  vfs_read+0x87/0x130
[899688.160002]  SyS_read+0x42/0x90
[899688.160002]  do_syscall_64+0x74/0x160

It caught the process in the middle of trace_access_unlock(). There is
no loop. So, it must be looping in the caller tracing_read_pipe()
via the "waitagain" label.

Crashdump analyze uncovered that iter-&gt;seq was completely zeroed
at this point, including iter-&gt;seq.seq.size. It means that
print_trace_line() was never able to print anything and
there was no forward progress.

The culprit seems to be in the code:

	/* reset all but tr, trace, and overruns */
	memset(&amp;iter-&gt;seq, 0,
	       sizeof(struct trace_iterator) -
	       offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq));

It was added by the commit 53d0aa773053ab182877 ("ftrace:
add logic to record overruns"). It was v2.6.27-rc1.
It was the time when iter-&gt;seq looked like:

     struct trace_seq {
	unsigned char		buffer[PAGE_SIZE];
	unsigned int		len;
     };

There was no "size" variable and zeroing was perfectly fine.

The solution is to reinitialize the structure after or without
zeroing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011142134.11997-1-pmladek@suse.com

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.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 d303de1fcf344ff7c15ed64c3f48a991c9958775 ]

A customer reported the following softlockup:

[899688.160002] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [test.sh:16464]
[899688.160002] CPU: 0 PID: 16464 Comm: test.sh Not tainted 4.12.14-6.23-azure #1 SLE12-SP4
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] RSP: 0018:ffffa86784d4fde8 EFLAGS: 00000257 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff12
[899688.160002] RAX: ffffffff970fea00 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] RDX: ffffffff00000001 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: ffffffff970fea00
[899688.160002] RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b59014720d8
[899688.160002] R13: ffff8b59014720c0 R14: ffff8b5901471090 R15: ffff8b5901470000
[899688.160002]  tracing_read_pipe+0x336/0x3c0
[899688.160002]  __vfs_read+0x26/0x140
[899688.160002]  vfs_read+0x87/0x130
[899688.160002]  SyS_read+0x42/0x90
[899688.160002]  do_syscall_64+0x74/0x160

It caught the process in the middle of trace_access_unlock(). There is
no loop. So, it must be looping in the caller tracing_read_pipe()
via the "waitagain" label.

Crashdump analyze uncovered that iter-&gt;seq was completely zeroed
at this point, including iter-&gt;seq.seq.size. It means that
print_trace_line() was never able to print anything and
there was no forward progress.

The culprit seems to be in the code:

	/* reset all but tr, trace, and overruns */
	memset(&amp;iter-&gt;seq, 0,
	       sizeof(struct trace_iterator) -
	       offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq));

It was added by the commit 53d0aa773053ab182877 ("ftrace:
add logic to record overruns"). It was v2.6.27-rc1.
It was the time when iter-&gt;seq looked like:

     struct trace_seq {
	unsigned char		buffer[PAGE_SIZE];
	unsigned int		len;
     };

There was no "size" variable and zeroing was perfectly fine.

The solution is to reinitialize the structure after or without
zeroing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011142134.11997-1-pmladek@suse.com

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.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>
<title>tracing: Fix race in perf_trace_buf initialization</title>
<updated>2019-10-29T08:20:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prateek Sood</name>
<email>prsood@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-15T06:17:25+00:00</published>
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commit 6b1340cc00edeadd52ebd8a45171f38c8de2a387 upstream.

A race condition exists while initialiazing perf_trace_buf from
perf_trace_init() and perf_kprobe_init().

      CPU0                                        CPU1
perf_trace_init()
  mutex_lock(&amp;event_mutex)
    perf_trace_event_init()
      perf_trace_event_reg()
        total_ref_count == 0
	buf = alloc_percpu()
        perf_trace_buf[i] = buf
        tp_event-&gt;class-&gt;reg() //fails       perf_kprobe_init()
	goto fail                              perf_trace_event_init()
                                                 perf_trace_event_reg()
        fail:
	  total_ref_count == 0

                                                   total_ref_count == 0
                                                   buf = alloc_percpu()
                                                   perf_trace_buf[i] = buf
                                                   tp_event-&gt;class-&gt;reg()
                                                   total_ref_count++

          free_percpu(perf_trace_buf[i])
          perf_trace_buf[i] = NULL

Any subsequent call to perf_trace_event_reg() will observe total_ref_count &gt; 0,
causing the perf_trace_buf to be always NULL. This can result in perf_trace_buf
getting accessed from perf_trace_buf_alloc() without being initialized. Acquiring
event_mutex in perf_kprobe_init() before calling perf_trace_event_init() should
fix this race.

The race caused the following bug:

 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000003106f2003c
 Mem abort info:
   ESR = 0x96000045
   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
   SET = 0, FnV = 0
   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
 Data abort info:
   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000045
   CM = 0, WnR = 1
 user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp = ffffffc034b9b000
 [0000003106f2003c] pgd=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
 Internal error: Oops: 96000045 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 Process syz-executor (pid: 18393, stack limit = 0xffffffc093190000)
 pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO)
 pc : __memset+0x20/0x1ac
 lr : memset+0x3c/0x50
 sp : ffffffc09319fc50

  __memset+0x20/0x1ac
  perf_trace_buf_alloc+0x140/0x1a0
  perf_trace_sys_enter+0x158/0x310
  syscall_trace_enter+0x348/0x7c0
  el0_svc_common+0x11c/0x368
  el0_svc_handler+0x12c/0x198
  el0_svc+0x8/0xc

Ramdumps showed the following:
  total_ref_count = 3
  perf_trace_buf = (
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571120245-4186-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e12f03d7031a9 ("perf/core: Implement the 'perf_kprobe' PMU")
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood &lt;prsood@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 6b1340cc00edeadd52ebd8a45171f38c8de2a387 upstream.

A race condition exists while initialiazing perf_trace_buf from
perf_trace_init() and perf_kprobe_init().

      CPU0                                        CPU1
perf_trace_init()
  mutex_lock(&amp;event_mutex)
    perf_trace_event_init()
      perf_trace_event_reg()
        total_ref_count == 0
	buf = alloc_percpu()
        perf_trace_buf[i] = buf
        tp_event-&gt;class-&gt;reg() //fails       perf_kprobe_init()
	goto fail                              perf_trace_event_init()
                                                 perf_trace_event_reg()
        fail:
	  total_ref_count == 0

                                                   total_ref_count == 0
                                                   buf = alloc_percpu()
                                                   perf_trace_buf[i] = buf
                                                   tp_event-&gt;class-&gt;reg()
                                                   total_ref_count++

          free_percpu(perf_trace_buf[i])
          perf_trace_buf[i] = NULL

Any subsequent call to perf_trace_event_reg() will observe total_ref_count &gt; 0,
causing the perf_trace_buf to be always NULL. This can result in perf_trace_buf
getting accessed from perf_trace_buf_alloc() without being initialized. Acquiring
event_mutex in perf_kprobe_init() before calling perf_trace_event_init() should
fix this race.

The race caused the following bug:

 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000003106f2003c
 Mem abort info:
   ESR = 0x96000045
   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
   SET = 0, FnV = 0
   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
 Data abort info:
   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000045
   CM = 0, WnR = 1
 user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp = ffffffc034b9b000
 [0000003106f2003c] pgd=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
 Internal error: Oops: 96000045 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 Process syz-executor (pid: 18393, stack limit = 0xffffffc093190000)
 pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO)
 pc : __memset+0x20/0x1ac
 lr : memset+0x3c/0x50
 sp : ffffffc09319fc50

  __memset+0x20/0x1ac
  perf_trace_buf_alloc+0x140/0x1a0
  perf_trace_sys_enter+0x158/0x310
  syscall_trace_enter+0x348/0x7c0
  el0_svc_common+0x11c/0x368
  el0_svc_handler+0x12c/0x198
  el0_svc+0x8/0xc

Ramdumps showed the following:
  total_ref_count = 3
  perf_trace_buf = (
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571120245-4186-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e12f03d7031a9 ("perf/core: Implement the 'perf_kprobe' PMU")
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood &lt;prsood@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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Get trace_array reference for available_tracers files</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T20:45:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-11T22:19:17+00:00</published>
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commit 194c2c74f5532e62c218adeb8e2b683119503907 upstream.

As instances may have different tracers available, we need to look at the
trace_array descriptor that shows the list of the available tracers for the
instance. But there's a race between opening the file and an admin
deleting the instance. The trace_array_get() needs to be called before
accessing the trace_array.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 607e2ea167e56 ("tracing: Set up infrastructure to allow tracers for instances")
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 194c2c74f5532e62c218adeb8e2b683119503907 upstream.

As instances may have different tracers available, we need to look at the
trace_array descriptor that shows the list of the available tracers for the
instance. But there's a race between opening the file and an admin
deleting the instance. The trace_array_get() needs to be called before
accessing the trace_array.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 607e2ea167e56 ("tracing: Set up infrastructure to allow tracers for instances")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Get a reference counter for the trace_array on filter files</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T20:45:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-11T21:56:57+00:00</published>
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commit 9ef16693aff8137faa21d16ffe65bb9832d24d71 upstream.

The ftrace set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace files are specific for
an instance now. They need to take a reference to the instance otherwise
there could be a race between accessing the files and deleting the instance.

It wasn't until the :mod: caching where these file operations started
referencing the trace_array directly.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 673feb9d76ab3 ("ftrace: Add :mod: caching infrastructure to trace_array")
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 9ef16693aff8137faa21d16ffe65bb9832d24d71 upstream.

The ftrace set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace files are specific for
an instance now. They need to take a reference to the instance otherwise
there could be a race between accessing the files and deleting the instance.

It wasn't until the :mod: caching where these file operations started
referencing the trace_array directly.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 673feb9d76ab3 ("ftrace: Add :mod: caching infrastructure to trace_array")
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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/hwlat: Don't ignore outer-loop duration when calculating max_latency</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T20:45:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware)</name>
<email>srivatsa@csail.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-10T18:51:01+00:00</published>
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commit fc64e4ad80d4b72efce116f87b3174f0b7196f8e upstream.

max_latency is intended to record the maximum ever observed hardware
latency, which may occur in either part of the loop (inner/outer). So
we need to also consider the outer-loop sample when updating
max_latency.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157073345463.17189.18124025522664682811.stgit@srivatsa-ubuntu

Fixes: e7c15cd8a113 ("tracing: Added hardware latency tracer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) &lt;srivatsa@csail.mit.edu&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 fc64e4ad80d4b72efce116f87b3174f0b7196f8e upstream.

max_latency is intended to record the maximum ever observed hardware
latency, which may occur in either part of the loop (inner/outer). So
we need to also consider the outer-loop sample when updating
max_latency.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157073345463.17189.18124025522664682811.stgit@srivatsa-ubuntu

Fixes: e7c15cd8a113 ("tracing: Added hardware latency tracer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) &lt;srivatsa@csail.mit.edu&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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/hwlat: Report total time spent in all NMIs during the sample</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T20:45:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware)</name>
<email>srivatsa@csail.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-10T18:50:46+00:00</published>
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commit 98dc19c11470ee6048aba723d77079ad2cda8a52 upstream.

nmi_total_ts is supposed to record the total time spent in *all* NMIs
that occur on the given CPU during the (active portion of the)
sampling window. However, the code seems to be overwriting this
variable for each NMI, thereby only recording the time spent in the
most recent NMI. Fix it by accumulating the duration instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157073343544.17189.13911783866738671133.stgit@srivatsa-ubuntu

Fixes: 7b2c86250122 ("tracing: Add NMI tracing in hwlat detector")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) &lt;srivatsa@csail.mit.edu&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 98dc19c11470ee6048aba723d77079ad2cda8a52 upstream.

nmi_total_ts is supposed to record the total time spent in *all* NMIs
that occur on the given CPU during the (active portion of the)
sampling window. However, the code seems to be overwriting this
variable for each NMI, thereby only recording the time spent in the
most recent NMI. Fix it by accumulating the duration instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157073343544.17189.13911783866738671133.stgit@srivatsa-ubuntu

Fixes: 7b2c86250122 ("tracing: Add NMI tracing in hwlat detector")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) &lt;srivatsa@csail.mit.edu&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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