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<title>tracing: Fix bug in rb_per_cpu_empty() that might cause deadloop.</title>
<updated>2021-07-28T11:31:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haoran Luo</name>
<email>www@aegistudio.net</email>
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<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>2021-07-28T11:31:00+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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<entry>
<title>tracing: Do not reference char * as a string in histograms</title>
<updated>2021-07-20T14:10:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-15T04:02:06+00:00</published>
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commit 704adfb5a9978462cd861f170201ae2b5e3d3a80 upstream.

The histogram logic was allowing events with char * pointers to be used as
normal strings. But it was easy to crash the kernel with:

 # echo 'hist:keys=filename' &gt; events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/trigger

And open some files, and boom!

 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f2ced0c3280
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 1173fa067 P4D 1173fa067 PUD 1171b6067 PMD 1171dd067 PTE 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 6 PID: 1810 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-test+ #61
 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 2a 0b a9 20 74 11 0f b6 50 01 48 83 c0 01 f6 82 80 2a 0b
a9 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 00 75 f7 48 29 f8 c3

 RSP: 0018:ffffbdbf81567b50 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffff93815cdb3800 RCX: ffff9382401a22d0
 RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007f2ced0c3280
 RBP: 0000000000000100 R08: ffff9382409ff074 R09: ffffbdbf81567c98
 R10: ffff9382409ff074 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9382409ff074
 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff93815a744f00 R15: 00007f2ced0c3280
 FS:  00007f2ced0f8580(0000) GS:ffff93825a800000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00007f2ced0c3280 CR3: 0000000107069005 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  event_hist_trigger+0x463/0x5f0
  ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90
  ? sched_clock_cpu+0xe/0xd0
  ? lock_release+0x155/0x440
  ? kernel_init_free_pages+0x6d/0x90
  ? preempt_count_sub+0x9b/0xd0
  ? kernel_init_free_pages+0x6d/0x90
  ? get_page_from_freelist+0x12c4/0x1680
  ? __rb_reserve_next+0xe5/0x460
  ? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
  event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0
  ftrace_syscall_enter+0x264/0x2c0
  syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x1ee/0x210
  do_syscall_64+0x1c/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Where it triggered a fault on strlen(key) where key was the filename.

The reason is that filename is a char * to user space, and the histogram
code just blindly dereferenced it, with obvious bad results.

I originally tried to use strncpy_from_user/kernel_nofault() but found
that there's other places that its dereferenced and not worth the effort.

Just do not allow "char *" to act like strings.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715000206.025df9d2@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov &lt;tz.stoyanov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 79e577cbce4c4 ("tracing: Support string type key properly")
Fixes: 5967bd5c4239 ("tracing: Let filter_assign_type() detect FILTER_PTR_STRING")
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 704adfb5a9978462cd861f170201ae2b5e3d3a80 upstream.

The histogram logic was allowing events with char * pointers to be used as
normal strings. But it was easy to crash the kernel with:

 # echo 'hist:keys=filename' &gt; events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/trigger

And open some files, and boom!

 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f2ced0c3280
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 1173fa067 P4D 1173fa067 PUD 1171b6067 PMD 1171dd067 PTE 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 6 PID: 1810 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-test+ #61
 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 2a 0b a9 20 74 11 0f b6 50 01 48 83 c0 01 f6 82 80 2a 0b
a9 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 00 75 f7 48 29 f8 c3

 RSP: 0018:ffffbdbf81567b50 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffff93815cdb3800 RCX: ffff9382401a22d0
 RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007f2ced0c3280
 RBP: 0000000000000100 R08: ffff9382409ff074 R09: ffffbdbf81567c98
 R10: ffff9382409ff074 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9382409ff074
 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff93815a744f00 R15: 00007f2ced0c3280
 FS:  00007f2ced0f8580(0000) GS:ffff93825a800000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00007f2ced0c3280 CR3: 0000000107069005 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  event_hist_trigger+0x463/0x5f0
  ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90
  ? sched_clock_cpu+0xe/0xd0
  ? lock_release+0x155/0x440
  ? kernel_init_free_pages+0x6d/0x90
  ? preempt_count_sub+0x9b/0xd0
  ? kernel_init_free_pages+0x6d/0x90
  ? get_page_from_freelist+0x12c4/0x1680
  ? __rb_reserve_next+0xe5/0x460
  ? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
  event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0
  ftrace_syscall_enter+0x264/0x2c0
  syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x1ee/0x210
  do_syscall_64+0x1c/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Where it triggered a fault on strlen(key) where key was the filename.

The reason is that filename is a char * to user space, and the histogram
code just blindly dereferenced it, with obvious bad results.

I originally tried to use strncpy_from_user/kernel_nofault() but found
that there's other places that its dereferenced and not worth the effort.

Just do not allow "char *" to act like strings.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715000206.025df9d2@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov &lt;tz.stoyanov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 79e577cbce4c4 ("tracing: Support string type key properly")
Fixes: 5967bd5c4239 ("tracing: Let filter_assign_type() detect FILTER_PTR_STRING")
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: Resize tgid_map to pid_max, not PID_MAX_DEFAULT</title>
<updated>2021-07-19T06:53:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paulburton@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T17:24:07+00:00</published>
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commit 4030a6e6a6a4a42ff8c18414c9e0c93e24cc70b8 upstream.

Currently tgid_map is sized at PID_MAX_DEFAULT entries, which means that
on systems where pid_max is configured higher than PID_MAX_DEFAULT the
ftrace record-tgid option doesn't work so well. Any tasks with PIDs
higher than PID_MAX_DEFAULT are simply not recorded in tgid_map, and
don't show up in the saved_tgids file.

In particular since systemd v243 &amp; above configure pid_max to its
highest possible 1&lt;&lt;22 value by default on 64 bit systems this renders
the record-tgids option of little use.

Increase the size of tgid_map to the configured pid_max instead,
allowing it to cover the full range of PIDs up to the maximum value of
PID_MAX_LIMIT if the system is configured that way.

On 64 bit systems with pid_max == PID_MAX_LIMIT this will increase the
size of tgid_map from 256KiB to 16MiB. Whilst this 64x increase in
memory overhead sounds significant 64 bit systems are presumably best
placed to accommodate it, and since tgid_map is only allocated when the
record-tgid option is actually used presumably the user would rather it
spends sufficient memory to actually record the tgids they expect.

The size of tgid_map could also increase for CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=y
configurations, but these seem unlikely to be systems upon which people
are both configuring a large pid_max and running ftrace with record-tgid
anyway.

Of note is that we only allocate tgid_map once, the first time that the
record-tgid option is enabled. Therefore its size is only set once, to
the value of pid_max at the time the record-tgid option is first
enabled. If a user increases pid_max after that point, the saved_tgids
file will not contain entries for any tasks with pids beyond the earlier
value of pid_max.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210701172407.889626-2-paulburton@google.com

Fixes: d914ba37d714 ("tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks")
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@google.com&gt;
[ Fixed comment coding style ]
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 4030a6e6a6a4a42ff8c18414c9e0c93e24cc70b8 upstream.

Currently tgid_map is sized at PID_MAX_DEFAULT entries, which means that
on systems where pid_max is configured higher than PID_MAX_DEFAULT the
ftrace record-tgid option doesn't work so well. Any tasks with PIDs
higher than PID_MAX_DEFAULT are simply not recorded in tgid_map, and
don't show up in the saved_tgids file.

In particular since systemd v243 &amp; above configure pid_max to its
highest possible 1&lt;&lt;22 value by default on 64 bit systems this renders
the record-tgids option of little use.

Increase the size of tgid_map to the configured pid_max instead,
allowing it to cover the full range of PIDs up to the maximum value of
PID_MAX_LIMIT if the system is configured that way.

On 64 bit systems with pid_max == PID_MAX_LIMIT this will increase the
size of tgid_map from 256KiB to 16MiB. Whilst this 64x increase in
memory overhead sounds significant 64 bit systems are presumably best
placed to accommodate it, and since tgid_map is only allocated when the
record-tgid option is actually used presumably the user would rather it
spends sufficient memory to actually record the tgids they expect.

The size of tgid_map could also increase for CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=y
configurations, but these seem unlikely to be systems upon which people
are both configuring a large pid_max and running ftrace with record-tgid
anyway.

Of note is that we only allocate tgid_map once, the first time that the
record-tgid option is enabled. Therefore its size is only set once, to
the value of pid_max at the time the record-tgid option is first
enabled. If a user increases pid_max after that point, the saved_tgids
file will not contain entries for any tasks with pids beyond the earlier
value of pid_max.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210701172407.889626-2-paulburton@google.com

Fixes: d914ba37d714 ("tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks")
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@google.com&gt;
[ Fixed comment coding style ]
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>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Simplify &amp; fix saved_tgids logic</title>
<updated>2021-07-19T06:53:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paulburton@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-30T00:34:05+00:00</published>
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commit b81b3e959adb107cd5b36c7dc5ba1364bbd31eb2 upstream.

The tgid_map array records a mapping from pid to tgid, where the index
of an entry within the array is the pid &amp; the value stored at that index
is the tgid.

The saved_tgids_next() function iterates over pointers into the tgid_map
array &amp; dereferences the pointers which results in the tgid, but then it
passes that dereferenced value to trace_find_tgid() which treats it as a
pid &amp; does a further lookup within the tgid_map array. It seems likely
that the intent here was to skip over entries in tgid_map for which the
recorded tgid is zero, but instead we end up skipping over entries for
which the thread group leader hasn't yet had its own tgid recorded in
tgid_map.

A minimal fix would be to remove the call to trace_find_tgid, turning:

  if (trace_find_tgid(*ptr))

into:

  if (*ptr)

..but it seems like this logic can be much simpler if we simply let
seq_read() iterate over the whole tgid_map array &amp; filter out empty
entries by returning SEQ_SKIP from saved_tgids_show(). Here we take that
approach, removing the incorrect logic here entirely.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210630003406.4013668-1-paulburton@google.com

Fixes: d914ba37d714 ("tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks")
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@google.com&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 b81b3e959adb107cd5b36c7dc5ba1364bbd31eb2 upstream.

The tgid_map array records a mapping from pid to tgid, where the index
of an entry within the array is the pid &amp; the value stored at that index
is the tgid.

The saved_tgids_next() function iterates over pointers into the tgid_map
array &amp; dereferences the pointers which results in the tgid, but then it
passes that dereferenced value to trace_find_tgid() which treats it as a
pid &amp; does a further lookup within the tgid_map array. It seems likely
that the intent here was to skip over entries in tgid_map for which the
recorded tgid is zero, but instead we end up skipping over entries for
which the thread group leader hasn't yet had its own tgid recorded in
tgid_map.

A minimal fix would be to remove the call to trace_find_tgid, turning:

  if (trace_find_tgid(*ptr))

into:

  if (*ptr)

..but it seems like this logic can be much simpler if we simply let
seq_read() iterate over the whole tgid_map array &amp; filter out empty
entries by returning SEQ_SKIP from saved_tgids_show(). Here we take that
approach, removing the incorrect logic here entirely.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210630003406.4013668-1-paulburton@google.com

Fixes: d914ba37d714 ("tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks")
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@google.com&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>
<entry>
<title>tracepoint: Add tracepoint_probe_register_may_exist() for BPF tracing</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T14:53:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-29T13:40:10+00:00</published>
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commit 9913d5745bd720c4266805c8d29952a3702e4eca upstream.

All internal use cases for tracepoint_probe_register() is set to not ever
be called with the same function and data. If it is, it is considered a
bug, as that means the accounting of handling tracepoints is corrupted.
If the function and data for a tracepoint is already registered when
tracepoint_probe_register() is called, it will call WARN_ON_ONCE() and
return with EEXISTS.

The BPF system call can end up calling tracepoint_probe_register() with
the same data, which now means that this can trigger the warning because
of a user space process. As WARN_ON_ONCE() should not be called because
user space called a system call with bad data, there needs to be a way to
register a tracepoint without triggering a warning.

Enter tracepoint_probe_register_may_exist(), which can be called, but will
not cause a WARN_ON() if the probe already exists. It will still error out
with EEXIST, which will then be sent to the user space that performed the
BPF system call.

This keeps the previous testing for issues with other users of the
tracepoint code, while letting BPF call it with duplicated data and not
warn about it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210626135845.4080-1-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp/
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=41f4318cf01762389f4d1c1c459da4f542fe5153

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c4f6699dfcb85 ("bpf: introduce BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT")
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+721aa903751db87aa244@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Tested-by: syzbot+721aa903751db87aa244@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
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 9913d5745bd720c4266805c8d29952a3702e4eca upstream.

All internal use cases for tracepoint_probe_register() is set to not ever
be called with the same function and data. If it is, it is considered a
bug, as that means the accounting of handling tracepoints is corrupted.
If the function and data for a tracepoint is already registered when
tracepoint_probe_register() is called, it will call WARN_ON_ONCE() and
return with EEXISTS.

The BPF system call can end up calling tracepoint_probe_register() with
the same data, which now means that this can trigger the warning because
of a user space process. As WARN_ON_ONCE() should not be called because
user space called a system call with bad data, there needs to be a way to
register a tracepoint without triggering a warning.

Enter tracepoint_probe_register_may_exist(), which can be called, but will
not cause a WARN_ON() if the probe already exists. It will still error out
with EEXIST, which will then be sent to the user space that performed the
BPF system call.

This keeps the previous testing for issues with other users of the
tracepoint code, while letting BPF call it with duplicated data and not
warn about it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210626135845.4080-1-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp/
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=41f4318cf01762389f4d1c1c459da4f542fe5153

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c4f6699dfcb85 ("bpf: introduce BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT")
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+721aa903751db87aa244@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Tested-by: syzbot+721aa903751db87aa244@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
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>
<entry>
<title>tracing/histograms: Fix parsing of "sym-offset" modifier</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T14:53:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-07T15:08:21+00:00</published>
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commit 26c563731056c3ee66f91106c3078a8c36bb7a9e upstream.

With the addition of simple mathematical operations (plus and minus), the
parsing of the "sym-offset" modifier broke, as it took the '-' part of the
"sym-offset" as a minus, and tried to break it up into a mathematical
operation of "field.sym - offset", in which case it failed to parse
(unless the event had a field called "offset").

Both .sym and .sym-offset modifiers should not be entered into
mathematical calculations anyway. If ".sym-offset" is found in the
modifier, then simply make it not an operation that can be calculated on.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210707110821.188ae255@oasis.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 100719dcef447 ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
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 26c563731056c3ee66f91106c3078a8c36bb7a9e upstream.

With the addition of simple mathematical operations (plus and minus), the
parsing of the "sym-offset" modifier broke, as it took the '-' part of the
"sym-offset" as a minus, and tried to break it up into a mathematical
operation of "field.sym - offset", in which case it failed to parse
(unless the event had a field called "offset").

Both .sym and .sym-offset modifiers should not be entered into
mathematical calculations anyway. If ".sym-offset" is found in the
modifier, then simply make it not an operation that can be calculated on.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210707110821.188ae255@oasis.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 100719dcef447 ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
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;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Do no increment trace_clock_global() by one</title>
<updated>2021-06-23T12:41:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-17T21:12:35+00:00</published>
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commit 89529d8b8f8daf92d9979382b8d2eb39966846ea upstream.

The trace_clock_global() tries to make sure the events between CPUs is
somewhat in order. A global value is used and updated by the latest read
of a clock. If one CPU is ahead by a little, and is read by another CPU, a
lock is taken, and if the timestamp of the other CPU is behind, it will
simply use the other CPUs timestamp.

The lock is also only taken with a "trylock" due to tracing, and strange
recursions can happen. The lock is not taken at all in NMI context.

In the case where the lock is not able to be taken, the non synced
timestamp is returned. But it will not be less than the saved global
timestamp.

The problem arises because when the time goes "backwards" the time
returned is the saved timestamp plus 1. If the lock is not taken, and the
plus one to the timestamp is returned, there's a small race that can cause
the time to go backwards!

	CPU0				CPU1
	----				----
				trace_clock_global() {
				    ts = clock() [ 1000 ]
				    trylock(clock_lock) [ success ]
				    global_ts = ts; [ 1000 ]

				    &lt;interrupted by NMI&gt;
 trace_clock_global() {
    ts = clock() [ 999 ]
    if (ts &lt; global_ts)
	ts = global_ts + 1 [ 1001 ]

    trylock(clock_lock) [ fail ]

    return ts [ 1001]
 }
				    unlock(clock_lock);
				    return ts; [ 1000 ]
				}

 trace_clock_global() {
    ts = clock() [ 1000 ]
    if (ts &lt; global_ts) [ false 1000 == 1000 ]

    trylock(clock_lock) [ success ]
    global_ts = ts; [ 1000 ]
    unlock(clock_lock)

    return ts; [ 1000 ]
 }

The above case shows to reads of trace_clock_global() on the same CPU, but
the second read returns one less than the first read. That is, time when
backwards, and this is not what is allowed by trace_clock_global().

This was triggered by heavy tracing and the ring buffer checker that tests
for the clock going backwards:

 Ring buffer clock went backwards: 20613921464 -&gt; 20613921463
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3412 check_buffer+0x1b9/0x1c0
 Modules linked in:
 [..]
 [CPU: 2]TIME DOES NOT MATCH expected:20620711698 actual:20620711697 delta:6790234 before:20613921463 after:20613921463
   [20613915818] PAGE TIME STAMP
   [20613915818] delta:0
   [20613915819] delta:1
   [20613916035] delta:216
   [20613916465] delta:430
   [20613916575] delta:110
   [20613916749] delta:174
   [20613917248] delta:499
   [20613917333] delta:85
   [20613917775] delta:442
   [20613917921] delta:146
   [20613918321] delta:400
   [20613918568] delta:247
   [20613918768] delta:200
   [20613919306] delta:538
   [20613919353] delta:47
   [20613919980] delta:627
   [20613920296] delta:316
   [20613920571] delta:275
   [20613920862] delta:291
   [20613921152] delta:290
   [20613921464] delta:312
   [20613921464] delta:0 TIME EXTEND
   [20613921464] delta:0

This happened more than once, and always for an off by one result. It also
started happening after commit aafe104aa9096 was added.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: aafe104aa9096 ("tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block")
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 89529d8b8f8daf92d9979382b8d2eb39966846ea upstream.

The trace_clock_global() tries to make sure the events between CPUs is
somewhat in order. A global value is used and updated by the latest read
of a clock. If one CPU is ahead by a little, and is read by another CPU, a
lock is taken, and if the timestamp of the other CPU is behind, it will
simply use the other CPUs timestamp.

The lock is also only taken with a "trylock" due to tracing, and strange
recursions can happen. The lock is not taken at all in NMI context.

In the case where the lock is not able to be taken, the non synced
timestamp is returned. But it will not be less than the saved global
timestamp.

The problem arises because when the time goes "backwards" the time
returned is the saved timestamp plus 1. If the lock is not taken, and the
plus one to the timestamp is returned, there's a small race that can cause
the time to go backwards!

	CPU0				CPU1
	----				----
				trace_clock_global() {
				    ts = clock() [ 1000 ]
				    trylock(clock_lock) [ success ]
				    global_ts = ts; [ 1000 ]

				    &lt;interrupted by NMI&gt;
 trace_clock_global() {
    ts = clock() [ 999 ]
    if (ts &lt; global_ts)
	ts = global_ts + 1 [ 1001 ]

    trylock(clock_lock) [ fail ]

    return ts [ 1001]
 }
				    unlock(clock_lock);
				    return ts; [ 1000 ]
				}

 trace_clock_global() {
    ts = clock() [ 1000 ]
    if (ts &lt; global_ts) [ false 1000 == 1000 ]

    trylock(clock_lock) [ success ]
    global_ts = ts; [ 1000 ]
    unlock(clock_lock)

    return ts; [ 1000 ]
 }

The above case shows to reads of trace_clock_global() on the same CPU, but
the second read returns one less than the first read. That is, time when
backwards, and this is not what is allowed by trace_clock_global().

This was triggered by heavy tracing and the ring buffer checker that tests
for the clock going backwards:

 Ring buffer clock went backwards: 20613921464 -&gt; 20613921463
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3412 check_buffer+0x1b9/0x1c0
 Modules linked in:
 [..]
 [CPU: 2]TIME DOES NOT MATCH expected:20620711698 actual:20620711697 delta:6790234 before:20613921463 after:20613921463
   [20613915818] PAGE TIME STAMP
   [20613915818] delta:0
   [20613915819] delta:1
   [20613916035] delta:216
   [20613916465] delta:430
   [20613916575] delta:110
   [20613916749] delta:174
   [20613917248] delta:499
   [20613917333] delta:85
   [20613917775] delta:442
   [20613917921] delta:146
   [20613918321] delta:400
   [20613918568] delta:247
   [20613918768] delta:200
   [20613919306] delta:538
   [20613919353] delta:47
   [20613919980] delta:627
   [20613920296] delta:316
   [20613920571] delta:275
   [20613920862] delta:291
   [20613921152] delta:290
   [20613921464] delta:312
   [20613921464] delta:0 TIME EXTEND
   [20613921464] delta:0

This happened more than once, and always for an off by one result. It also
started happening after commit aafe104aa9096 was added.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: aafe104aa9096 ("tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block")
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>tracing: Do not stop recording comms if the trace file is being read</title>
<updated>2021-06-23T12:41:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-17T18:32:34+00:00</published>
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commit 4fdd595e4f9a1ff6d93ec702eaecae451cfc6591 upstream.

A while ago, when the "trace" file was opened, tracing was stopped, and
code was added to stop recording the comms to saved_cmdlines, for mapping
of the pids to the task name.

Code has been added that only records the comm if a trace event occurred,
and there's no reason to not trace it if the trace file is opened.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7ffbd48d5cab2 ("tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred")
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 4fdd595e4f9a1ff6d93ec702eaecae451cfc6591 upstream.

A while ago, when the "trace" file was opened, tracing was stopped, and
code was added to stop recording the comms to saved_cmdlines, for mapping
of the pids to the task name.

Code has been added that only records the comm if a trace event occurred,
and there's no reason to not trace it if the trace file is opened.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7ffbd48d5cab2 ("tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred")
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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<title>tracing: Do not stop recording cmdlines when tracing is off</title>
<updated>2021-06-23T12:41:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2021-06-17T17:47:25+00:00</published>
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commit 85550c83da421fb12dc1816c45012e1e638d2b38 upstream.

The saved_cmdlines is used to map pids to the task name, such that the
output of the tracing does not just show pids, but also gives a human
readable name for the task.

If the name is not mapped, the output looks like this:

    &lt;...&gt;-1316          [005] ...2   132.044039: ...

Instead of this:

    gnome-shell-1316    [005] ...2   132.044039: ...

The names are updated when tracing is running, but are skipped if tracing
is stopped. Unfortunately, this stops the recording of the names if the
top level tracer is stopped, and not if there's other tracers active.

The recording of a name only happens when a new event is written into a
ring buffer, so there is no need to test if tracing is on or not. If
tracing is off, then no event is written and no need to test if tracing is
off or not.

Remove the check, as it hides the names of tasks for events in the
instance buffers.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7ffbd48d5cab2 ("tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred")
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 85550c83da421fb12dc1816c45012e1e638d2b38 upstream.

The saved_cmdlines is used to map pids to the task name, such that the
output of the tracing does not just show pids, but also gives a human
readable name for the task.

If the name is not mapped, the output looks like this:

    &lt;...&gt;-1316          [005] ...2   132.044039: ...

Instead of this:

    gnome-shell-1316    [005] ...2   132.044039: ...

The names are updated when tracing is running, but are skipped if tracing
is stopped. Unfortunately, this stops the recording of the names if the
top level tracer is stopped, and not if there's other tracers active.

The recording of a name only happens when a new event is written into a
ring buffer, so there is no need to test if tracing is on or not. If
tracing is off, then no event is written and no need to test if tracing is
off or not.

Remove the check, as it hides the names of tasks for events in the
instance buffers.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7ffbd48d5cab2 ("tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred")
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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