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<title>bitops: make BYTES_TO_BITS() treewide-available</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T13:55:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Lobakin</name>
<email>aleksander.lobakin@intel.com</email>
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<published>2026-07-14T01:16:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7d8296b250f2eed73f1758607926d4d258dea5d4 ]

Avoid open-coding that simple expression each time by moving
BYTES_TO_BITS() from the probes code to &lt;linux/bitops.h&gt; to export
it to the rest of the kernel.
Simplify the macro while at it. `BITS_PER_LONG / sizeof(long)` always
equals to %BITS_PER_BYTE, regardless of the target architecture.
Do the same for the tools ecosystem as well (incl. its version of
bitops.h). The previous implementation had its implicit type of long,
while the new one is int, so adjust the format literal accordingly in
the perf code.

Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 55052184ac90 ("iio: common: st_sensors: honour channel endianness in read_axis_data")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7d8296b250f2eed73f1758607926d4d258dea5d4 ]

Avoid open-coding that simple expression each time by moving
BYTES_TO_BITS() from the probes code to &lt;linux/bitops.h&gt; to export
it to the rest of the kernel.
Simplify the macro while at it. `BITS_PER_LONG / sizeof(long)` always
equals to %BITS_PER_BYTE, regardless of the target architecture.
Do the same for the tools ecosystem as well (incl. its version of
bitops.h). The previous implementation had its implicit type of long,
while the new one is int, so adjust the format literal accordingly in
the perf code.

Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 55052184ac90 ("iio: common: st_sensors: honour channel endianness in read_axis_data")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing/probes: Fix double addition of offset for @+FOFFSET</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T13:55:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-24T23:34:47+00:00</published>
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commit 9a667b7750dda88cbf1cca96a53a2163b2ee71f7 upstream.

Since commit 533059281ee5 ("tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument
 fetching code") wrongly use @offset local variable during the parsing,
the offset value is added twice when dereferencing.
Reset the @offset after setting it in FETCH_OP_FOFFS.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178217905962.643090.1978577464942171332.stgit@devnote2/

Fixes: 533059281ee5 ("tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 9a667b7750dda88cbf1cca96a53a2163b2ee71f7 upstream.

Since commit 533059281ee5 ("tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument
 fetching code") wrongly use @offset local variable during the parsing,
the offset value is added twice when dereferencing.
Reset the @offset after setting it in FETCH_OP_FOFFS.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178217905962.643090.1978577464942171332.stgit@devnote2/

Fixes: 533059281ee5 ("tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Add missing access_ok call to copy_user_syms</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T13:55:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-16T08:30:56+00:00</published>
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commit d5dc200c3a3f217de072af269dd90adddf90e48d upstream.

As reported by sashiko we use __get_user without prior access_ok call on the
user space pointer. Adding the missing call for the whole pointer array.

Plus removing the err check in the error path, because it's not needed and
also we can return -ENOMEM directly from the first kvmalloc_array fail path.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260611115503.AC16D1F00893@smtp.kernel.org/
Fixes: 0236fec57a15 ("bpf: Resolve symbols with ftrace_lookup_symbols for kprobe multi link")
Reported-by: Sashiko &lt;sashiko-bot@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260611115503.AC16D1F00893@smtp.kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260616083056.405652-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit d5dc200c3a3f217de072af269dd90adddf90e48d upstream.

As reported by sashiko we use __get_user without prior access_ok call on the
user space pointer. Adding the missing call for the whole pointer array.

Plus removing the err check in the error path, because it's not needed and
also we can return -ENOMEM directly from the first kvmalloc_array fail path.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260611115503.AC16D1F00893@smtp.kernel.org/
Fixes: 0236fec57a15 ("bpf: Resolve symbols with ftrace_lookup_symbols for kprobe multi link")
Reported-by: Sashiko &lt;sashiko-bot@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260611115503.AC16D1F00893@smtp.kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260616083056.405652-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Fix event length with forced 8-byte alignment</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T13:54:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hui Wang</name>
<email>hui.wang@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-07T07:24:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c37e0a4b79a6bbb96ce5ffe279d7c001e20529e0 ]

When RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is true, rb_calculate_event_length()
reserves the space of event-&gt;array[0] for placing the data length and
rb_update_event() stores the data length in event-&gt;array[0]
accordingly. As a result the whole event length will add extra 4 bytes
for sizeof(event.array[0]) unconditionally.

But ring_buffer_event_length() only subtracts the
sizeof(event-&gt;array[0]) for events larger than RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA +
sizeof(event-&gt;array[0]). As a result, small events on architectures
with RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT=true report a data length that is 4
bytes larger than expected.

To fix it, add the RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT as a condition to subtract
the size of that length field whenever RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is
true.

This issue is observed in a riscv64 kernel with
CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS set to y, when we run ftrace selftest
trace_marker_raw.tc, we get the weird log: for cases where the id is
1..100, the number of data field is 8*N, but once id exceeds 100, the
number of data field becomes 8*N+4:
 # 1 buf: 58 00 00 00 80 5e d1 63 (number of data field is 8*1)
 ...
 # a buf: 58 ...                  (number of data field is 8*2)
 ...
 # 64 buf: 58 ...                 (number of data field is 8*13)
 # 65 buf: 58 ...                 (number of data field is 8*13+4)

After applying this change, the number of data field keeps being 8*N+4
consistently.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260607072431.125633-2-hui.wang@canonical.com
Fixes: 2271048d1b3b ("ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte align")
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang &lt;hui.wang@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c37e0a4b79a6bbb96ce5ffe279d7c001e20529e0 ]

When RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is true, rb_calculate_event_length()
reserves the space of event-&gt;array[0] for placing the data length and
rb_update_event() stores the data length in event-&gt;array[0]
accordingly. As a result the whole event length will add extra 4 bytes
for sizeof(event.array[0]) unconditionally.

But ring_buffer_event_length() only subtracts the
sizeof(event-&gt;array[0]) for events larger than RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA +
sizeof(event-&gt;array[0]). As a result, small events on architectures
with RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT=true report a data length that is 4
bytes larger than expected.

To fix it, add the RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT as a condition to subtract
the size of that length field whenever RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is
true.

This issue is observed in a riscv64 kernel with
CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS set to y, when we run ftrace selftest
trace_marker_raw.tc, we get the weird log: for cases where the id is
1..100, the number of data field is 8*N, but once id exceeds 100, the
number of data field becomes 8*N+4:
 # 1 buf: 58 00 00 00 80 5e d1 63 (number of data field is 8*1)
 ...
 # a buf: 58 ...                  (number of data field is 8*2)
 ...
 # 64 buf: 58 ...                 (number of data field is 8*13)
 # 65 buf: 58 ...                 (number of data field is 8*13+4)

After applying this change, the number of data field keeps being 8*N+4
consistently.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260607072431.125633-2-hui.wang@canonical.com
Fixes: 2271048d1b3b ("ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte align")
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang &lt;hui.wang@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: eprobe: read the complete FILTER_PTR_STRING pointer</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T13:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Kaiser</name>
<email>martin@kaiser.cx</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-24T23:34:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 206b25c09080cc20fd4c2bea12d59df4b7ba2121 ]

For a char * element in an event, the FILTER_PTR_STRING filter type is
used. When the event occurs, a pointer is stored in the ringbuffer.

If an eprobe references such a char * element of a "base event", the
stored pointer is truncated when it's read from the ringbuffer.

$ cd /sys/kernel/tracing
$ echo 'e rcu.rcu_utilization $s:x64 $s:string' &gt; dynamic_events
$ echo 1 &gt; tracing_on
$ echo 1 &gt; events/eprobes/enable
$ sleep 1
$ echo 0 &gt; events/eprobes/enable
$ cat trace
   &lt;idle&gt;-0  ...: (rcu.rcu_utilization) arg1=0x4f arg2=(fault)
   &lt;idle&gt;-0  ...: (rcu.rcu_utilization) arg1=0x2 arg2=(fault)

The problem is in get_event_field

	val = (unsigned long)(*(char *)addr);

addr points to the position in the ringbuffer where the pointer was
stored. The assignment reads only the lowest byte of the pointer.

Fix the cast to read the whole pointer. The output of the test above
is now

&lt;idle&gt;-0 ... arg1=0xffffffff81c7d3f3 arg2="Start scheduler-tick"
&lt;idle&gt;-0 ... arg1=0xffffffff81c57340 arg2="End scheduler-tick"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260620145339.3234726-1-martin@kaiser.cx/

Fixes: f04dec93466a ("tracing/eprobes: Fix reading of string fields")
Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser &lt;martin@kaiser.cx&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 206b25c09080cc20fd4c2bea12d59df4b7ba2121 ]

For a char * element in an event, the FILTER_PTR_STRING filter type is
used. When the event occurs, a pointer is stored in the ringbuffer.

If an eprobe references such a char * element of a "base event", the
stored pointer is truncated when it's read from the ringbuffer.

$ cd /sys/kernel/tracing
$ echo 'e rcu.rcu_utilization $s:x64 $s:string' &gt; dynamic_events
$ echo 1 &gt; tracing_on
$ echo 1 &gt; events/eprobes/enable
$ sleep 1
$ echo 0 &gt; events/eprobes/enable
$ cat trace
   &lt;idle&gt;-0  ...: (rcu.rcu_utilization) arg1=0x4f arg2=(fault)
   &lt;idle&gt;-0  ...: (rcu.rcu_utilization) arg1=0x2 arg2=(fault)

The problem is in get_event_field

	val = (unsigned long)(*(char *)addr);

addr points to the position in the ringbuffer where the pointer was
stored. The assignment reads only the lowest byte of the pointer.

Fix the cast to read the whole pointer. The output of the test above
is now

&lt;idle&gt;-0 ... arg1=0xffffffff81c7d3f3 arg2="Start scheduler-tick"
&lt;idle&gt;-0 ... arg1=0xffffffff81c57340 arg2="End scheduler-tick"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260620145339.3234726-1-martin@kaiser.cx/

Fixes: f04dec93466a ("tracing/eprobes: Fix reading of string fields")
Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser &lt;martin@kaiser.cx&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: probes: fix typo in a log message</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T13:54:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Kaiser</name>
<email>martin@kaiser.cx</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-24T23:34:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 72c8646956ffc8050bb8be5988a0f28fc37e1ac4 ]

Fix a typo ("Invalid $-variable") in a log message.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260507081041.885781-4-martin@kaiser.cx/

Fixes: ab105a4fb894 ("tracing: Use tracing error_log with probe events")
Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser &lt;martin@kaiser.cx&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 72c8646956ffc8050bb8be5988a0f28fc37e1ac4 ]

Fix a typo ("Invalid $-variable") in a log message.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260507081041.885781-4-martin@kaiser.cx/

Fixes: ab105a4fb894 ("tracing: Use tracing error_log with probe events")
Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser &lt;martin@kaiser.cx&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Prevent out-of-bounds read in glob matching</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T13:54:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huihui Huang</name>
<email>hhhuang@smu.edu.sg</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-01T10:28:46+00:00</published>
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commit 0a6070839b1ef276d5b05bedfb787743e140fb17 upstream.

String event fields are not necessarily NUL-terminated, so the filter
predicate functions (filter_pred_string(), filter_pred_strloc() and
filter_pred_strrelloc()) pass the field length to the regex match
callbacks, and the length-aware matchers honour it.

regex_match_glob() was the exception: it ignored the length and called
glob_match(), which scans the string until it hits a NUL byte. Some
string fields are not NUL-terminated. One example is the dynamic char
array of the xfs_* namespace tracepoints, which is copied without a
trailing NUL. For such a field, glob matching reads past the end of
the event field, causing a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read in
glob_match(), reached via regex_match_glob() and filter_match_preds()
from the xfs_lookup tracepoint.

Add a length-bounded glob_match_len() and use it from regex_match_glob()
so glob matching always stops at the field boundary. The matching loop
is factored into a shared helper so glob_match() keeps its behaviour.

Fixes: 60f1d5e3bac4 ("ftrace: Support full glob matching")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/da1aaf125fc3b63320b0c540fd6afa7c3d5b4f1a.1782836943.git.hhhuang@smu.edu.sg
Reported-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zhengchuan Liang &lt;zcliangcn@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.4
Signed-off-by: Huihui Huang &lt;hhhuang@smu.edu.sg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei &lt;n05ec@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 0a6070839b1ef276d5b05bedfb787743e140fb17 upstream.

String event fields are not necessarily NUL-terminated, so the filter
predicate functions (filter_pred_string(), filter_pred_strloc() and
filter_pred_strrelloc()) pass the field length to the regex match
callbacks, and the length-aware matchers honour it.

regex_match_glob() was the exception: it ignored the length and called
glob_match(), which scans the string until it hits a NUL byte. Some
string fields are not NUL-terminated. One example is the dynamic char
array of the xfs_* namespace tracepoints, which is copied without a
trailing NUL. For such a field, glob matching reads past the end of
the event field, causing a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read in
glob_match(), reached via regex_match_glob() and filter_match_preds()
from the xfs_lookup tracepoint.

Add a length-bounded glob_match_len() and use it from regex_match_glob()
so glob matching always stops at the field boundary. The matching loop
is factored into a shared helper so glob_match() keeps its behaviour.

Fixes: 60f1d5e3bac4 ("ftrace: Support full glob matching")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/da1aaf125fc3b63320b0c540fd6afa7c3d5b4f1a.1782836943.git.hhhuang@smu.edu.sg
Reported-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zhengchuan Liang &lt;zcliangcn@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.4
Signed-off-by: Huihui Huang &lt;hhhuang@smu.edu.sg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei &lt;n05ec@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Remove ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync()</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:41:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern Doebel</name>
<email>doebel@amazon.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-24T12:23:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 119a5d573622ae90ba730d18acfae9bb75d77b9a ]

When the ring buffer was first introduced, reading the non-consuming
"trace" file required disabling the writing of the ring buffer. To make
sure the writing was fully disabled before iterating the buffer with a
non-consuming read, it would set the disable flag of the buffer and then
call an RCU synchronization to make sure all the buffers were
synchronized.

The function ring_buffer_read_start() originally  would initialize the
iterator and call an RCU synchronization, but this was for each individual
per CPU buffer where this would get called many times on a machine with
many CPUs before the trace file could be read. The commit 72c9ddfd4c5bf
("ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.")
separated ring_buffer_read_start into ring_buffer_read_prepare(),
ring_buffer_read_sync() and then ring_buffer_read_start() to allow each of
the per CPU buffers to be prepared, call the read_buffer_read_sync() once,
and then the ring_buffer_read_start() for each of the CPUs which made
things much faster.

The commit 1039221cc278 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there
is an iterator") removed the requirement of disabling the recording of the
ring buffer in order to iterate it, but it did not remove the
synchronization that was happening that was required to wait for all the
buffers to have no more writers. It's now OK for the buffers to have
writers and no synchronization is needed.

Remove the synchronization and put back the interface for the ring buffer
iterator back before commit 72c9ddfd4c5bf was applied.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630180440.3eabb514@batman.local.home
Reported-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 1039221cc278 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator")
Tested-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Doebel &lt;doebel@amazon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 119a5d573622ae90ba730d18acfae9bb75d77b9a ]

When the ring buffer was first introduced, reading the non-consuming
"trace" file required disabling the writing of the ring buffer. To make
sure the writing was fully disabled before iterating the buffer with a
non-consuming read, it would set the disable flag of the buffer and then
call an RCU synchronization to make sure all the buffers were
synchronized.

The function ring_buffer_read_start() originally  would initialize the
iterator and call an RCU synchronization, but this was for each individual
per CPU buffer where this would get called many times on a machine with
many CPUs before the trace file could be read. The commit 72c9ddfd4c5bf
("ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.")
separated ring_buffer_read_start into ring_buffer_read_prepare(),
ring_buffer_read_sync() and then ring_buffer_read_start() to allow each of
the per CPU buffers to be prepared, call the read_buffer_read_sync() once,
and then the ring_buffer_read_start() for each of the CPUs which made
things much faster.

The commit 1039221cc278 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there
is an iterator") removed the requirement of disabling the recording of the
ring buffer in order to iterate it, but it did not remove the
synchronization that was happening that was required to wait for all the
buffers to have no more writers. It's now OK for the buffers to have
writers and no synchronization is needed.

Remove the synchronization and put back the interface for the ring buffer
iterator back before commit 72c9ddfd4c5bf was applied.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630180440.3eabb514@batman.local.home
Reported-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 1039221cc278 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator")
Tested-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Doebel &lt;doebel@amazon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/probes: Limit size of event probe to 3K</title>
<updated>2026-06-19T11:37:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-15T14:48:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b2aa3b4d64e460ac606f386c24e7d8a873ce6f1a ]

There currently isn't a max limit an event probe can be. One could make an
event greater than PAGE_SIZE, which makes the event useless because if
it's bigger than the max event that can be recorded into the ring buffer,
then it will never be recorded.

A event probe should never need to be greater than 3K, so make that the
max size. As long as the max is less than the max that can be recorded
onto the ring buffer, it should be fine.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 93ccae7a22274 ("tracing/kprobes: Support basic types on dynamic events")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428122302.706610ba@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[ changed `ctx-&gt;offset` to `offset` and `goto fail` to `goto out` ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b2aa3b4d64e460ac606f386c24e7d8a873ce6f1a ]

There currently isn't a max limit an event probe can be. One could make an
event greater than PAGE_SIZE, which makes the event useless because if
it's bigger than the max event that can be recorded into the ring buffer,
then it will never be recorded.

A event probe should never need to be greater than 3K, so make that the
max size. As long as the max is less than the max that can be recorded
onto the ring buffer, it should be fine.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 93ccae7a22274 ("tracing/kprobes: Support basic types on dynamic events")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428122302.706610ba@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[ changed `ctx-&gt;offset` to `offset` and `goto fail` to `goto out` ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Avoid NULL return from hist_field_name() on truncation</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:39:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Carlier</name>
<email>devnexen@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-08T19:57:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 576ec047d20b368b43c4d5db98c4f2e0f3c101ec ]

hist_field_name() returns "" everywhere except the fully-qualified
VAR_REF/EXPR case, where snprintf() truncation returns NULL early
and bypasses the bottom NULL-&gt;"" guard. Callers don't expect NULL:
strcat(expr, hist_field_name(field, 0)) at trace_events_hist.c:1758
and the strcmp() in the sort-key match loop at :4804 both deref it.

system and event_name are bounded by MAX_EVENT_NAME_LEN, but the
field name on a VAR_REF is kstrdup'd from a histogram variable
name parsed out of the trigger string and has no length cap, so
a long enough var name in a fully qualified reference can reach
the truncation path.

Keep the length check but leave field_name as "" on overflow.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508195747.25492-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Fixes: 5ec1d1e97de1 ("tracing: Rebuild full_name on each hist_field_name() call")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 576ec047d20b368b43c4d5db98c4f2e0f3c101ec ]

hist_field_name() returns "" everywhere except the fully-qualified
VAR_REF/EXPR case, where snprintf() truncation returns NULL early
and bypasses the bottom NULL-&gt;"" guard. Callers don't expect NULL:
strcat(expr, hist_field_name(field, 0)) at trace_events_hist.c:1758
and the strcmp() in the sort-key match loop at :4804 both deref it.

system and event_name are bounded by MAX_EVENT_NAME_LEN, but the
field name on a VAR_REF is kstrdup'd from a histogram variable
name parsed out of the trigger string and has no length cap, so
a long enough var name in a fully qualified reference can reach
the truncation path.

Keep the length check but leave field_name as "" on overflow.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508195747.25492-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Fixes: 5ec1d1e97de1 ("tracing: Rebuild full_name on each hist_field_name() call")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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