linux-stable.git/kernel/trace, branch v6.14.2

tracing: Do not use PERF enums when perf is not defined

2025-04-10T12:44:48+00:00

commit 8eb1518642738c6892bd629b46043513a3bf1a6a upstream.

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

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Douglas Raillard 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250323152151.528b5ced@batman.local.home
Fixes: 21581dd4e7ff ("tracing: Ensure module defining synth event cannot be unloaded while tracing")
Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503232230.TeREVy8R-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.."

2025-04-10T12:44:47+00:00

commit ea8d7647f9ddf1f81e2027ed305299797299aa03 upstream.

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

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

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

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

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250327195311.2d89ec66@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: Libo Chen 
Reviewed-by: Libo Chen 
Tested-by: Libo Chen 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing/osnoise: Fix possible recursive locking for cpus_read_lock()

2025-04-10T12:44:47+00:00

commit 7e6b3fcc9c5294aeafed0dbe1a09a1bc899bd0f2 upstream.

Lockdep reports this deadlock log:

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

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

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

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

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250321095249.2739397-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com
Fixes: c8895e271f79 ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str fields

2025-04-10T12:44:47+00:00

commit 4d38328eb442dc06aec4350fd9594ffa6488af02 upstream.

The printk format for synth event uses "%.*s" to print string fields,
but then only passes the pointer part as var arg.

Replace %.*s with %s as the C string is guaranteed to be null-terminated.

The output in print fmt should never have been updated as __get_str()
handles the string limit because it can access the length of the string in
the string meta data that is saved in the ring buffer.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Fixes: 8db4d6bfbbf92 ("tracing: Change synthetic event string format to limit printed length")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250325165202.541088-1-douglas.raillard@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Ensure module defining synth event cannot be unloaded while tracing

2025-04-10T12:44:46+00:00

commit 21581dd4e7ff6c07d0ab577e3c32b13a74b31522 upstream.

Currently, using synth_event_delete() will fail if the event is being
used (tracing in progress), but that is normally done in the module exit
function. At that stage, failing is problematic as returning a non-zero
status means the module will become locked (impossible to unload or
reload again).

Instead, ensure the module exit function does not get called in the
first place by increasing the module refcnt when the event is enabled.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Fixes: 35ca5207c2d11 ("tracing: Add synthetic event command generation functions")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250318180906.226841-1-douglas.raillard@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix use-after-free in print_graph_function_flags during tracer switching

2025-04-10T12:44:46+00:00

commit 7f81f27b1093e4895e87b74143c59c055c3b1906 upstream.

Kairui reported a UAF issue in print_graph_function_flags() during
ftrace stress testing [1]. This issue can be reproduced if puting a
'mdelay(10)' after 'mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock)' in s_start(),
and executing the following script:

  $ echo function_graph > current_tracer
  $ cat trace > /dev/null &
  $ sleep 5  # Ensure the 'cat' reaches the 'mdelay(10)' point
  $ echo timerlat > current_tracer

The root cause lies in the two calls to print_graph_function_flags
within print_trace_line during each s_show():

  * One through 'iter->trace->print_line()';
  * Another through 'event->funcs->trace()', which is hidden in
    print_trace_fmt() before print_trace_line returns.

Tracer switching only updates the former, while the latter continues
to use the print_line function of the old tracer, which in the script
above is print_graph_function_flags.

Moreover, when switching from the 'function_graph' tracer to the
'timerlat' tracer, s_start only calls graph_trace_close of the
'function_graph' tracer to free 'iter->private', but does not set
it to NULL. This provides an opportunity for 'event->funcs->trace()'
to use an invalid 'iter->private'.

To fix this issue, set 'iter->private' to NULL immediately after
freeing it in graph_trace_close(), ensuring that an invalid pointer
is not passed to other tracers. Additionally, clean up the unnecessary
'iter->private = NULL' during each 'cat trace' when using wakeup and
irqsoff tracers.

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231112150030.84609-1-ryncsn@gmail.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Zheng Yejian 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250320122137.23635-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: eecb91b9f98d ("tracing: Fix memleak due to race between current_tracer and trace")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMgjq7BW79KDSCyp+tZHjShSzHsScSiJxn5ffskp-QzVM06fxw@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Kairui Song 
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ring-buffer: Fix bytes_dropped calculation issue

2025-04-10T12:44:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit c73f0b69648501978e8b3e8fa7eef7f4197d0481 ]

The calculation of bytes-dropped and bytes_dropped_nested is reversed.
Although it does not affect the final calculation of total_dropped,
it should still be modified.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250223070106.6781-1-yangfeng59949@163.com
Fixes: 6c43e554a2a5 ("ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest")
Signed-off-by: Feng Yang 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bpf: Use preempt_count() directly in bpf_send_signal_common()

2025-04-10T12:44:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit b4a8b5bba712a711d8ca1f7d04646db63f9c88f5 ]

bpf_send_signal_common() uses preemptible() to check whether or not the
current context is preemptible. If it is preemptible, it will use
irq_work to send the signal asynchronously instead of trying to hold a
spin-lock, because spin-lock is sleepable under PREEMPT_RT.

However, preemptible() depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT. When
CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT is turned off (e.g., CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y),
!preemptible() will be evaluated as 1 and bpf_send_signal_common() will
use irq_work unconditionally.

Fix it by unfolding "!preemptible()" and using "preempt_count() != 0 ||
irqs_disabled()" instead.

Fixes: 87c544108b61 ("bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible")
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220042259.1583319-1-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'probes-fixes-v6.14-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2025-03-17T21:30:31+00:00

Pull probes fixes from Masami Hiramatsu:

 - Clean up tprobe correctly when module unload

   Tracepoint probes do not set TRACEPOINT_STUB on the 'tpoint' pointer
   when unloading a module, thus they show as a normal 'fprobe' instead
   of 'tprobe' and never come back

 - Fix leakage of tprobe module refcount

   When a tprobe's target module is loaded, it gets the module's
   refcount in the module notifier but forgot to put it after
   registering the probe on it.

   Fix it by getting the refcount only when registering tprobe.

* tag 'probes-fixes-v6.14-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: tprobe-events: Fix leakage of module refcount
  tracing: tprobe-events: Fix to clean up tprobe correctly when module unload

Merge tag 'trace-v6.14-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2025-03-16T19:05:00+00:00

Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Fix ref count of trace_array in error path of histogram file open

  Tracing instances have a ref count to keep them around while files
  within their directories are open. This prevents them from being
  deleted while they are used.

  The histogram code had some files that needed to take the ref count
  and that was added, but the error paths did not decrement the ref
  counts. This caused the instances from ever being removed if a
  histogram file failed to open due to some error"

* tag 'trace-v6.14-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: Correct the refcount if the hist/hist_debug file fails to open