linux-stable.git/kernel/tracepoint.c, branch v4.14.331

tracepoint: Do not fail unregistering a probe due to memory failure

2021-03-03T17:22:47+00:00

[ Upstream commit befe6d946551d65cddbd32b9cb0170b0249fd5ed ]

The list of tracepoint callbacks is managed by an array that is protected
by RCU. To update this array, a new array is allocated, the updates are
copied over to the new array, and then the list of functions for the
tracepoint is switched over to the new array. After a completion of an RCU
grace period, the old array is freed.

This process happens for both adding a callback as well as removing one.
But on removing a callback, if the new array fails to be allocated, the
callback is not removed, and may be used after it is freed by the clients
of the tracepoint.

There's really no reason to fail if the allocation for a new array fails
when removing a function. Instead, the function can simply be replaced by a
stub function that could be cleaned up on the next modification of the
array. That is, instead of calling the function registered to the
tracepoint, it would call a stub function in its place.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201115055256.65625-1-mmullins@mmlx.us
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201116175107.02db396d@gandalf.local.home
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201117211836.54acaef2@oasis.local.home
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201118093405.7a6d2290@gandalf.local.home

[ Note, this version does use undefined compiler behavior (assuming that
  a stub function with no parameters or return, can be called by a location
  that thinks it has parameters but still no return value. Static calls
  do the same thing, so this trick is not without precedent.

  There's another solution that uses RCU tricks and is more complex, but
  can be an alternative if this solution becomes an issue.

  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210127170721.58bce7cc@gandalf.local.home/
]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau 
Cc: Song Liu 
Cc: Yonghong Song 
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko 
Cc: John Fastabend 
Cc: KP Singh 
Cc: netdev 
Cc: bpf 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Florian Weimer 
Fixes: 97e1c18e8d17b ("tracing: Kernel Tracepoints")
Reported-by: syzbot+83aa762ef23b6f0d1991@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+d29e58bb557324e55e5e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Matt Mullins 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Tested-by: Matt Mullins 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tracepoint: Do not warn on ENOMEM

2018-05-09T07:51:50+00:00

commit d66a270be3310d7aa132fec0cea77d3d32a0ff75 upstream.

Tracepoint should only warn when a kernel API user does not respect the
required preconditions (e.g. same tracepoint enabled twice, or called
to remove a tracepoint that does not exist).

Silence warning in out-of-memory conditions, given that the error is
returned to the caller.

This ensures that out-of-memory error-injection testing does not trigger
warnings in tracepoint.c, which were seen by syzbot.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/001a114465e241a8720567419a72@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/001a1140e0de15fc910567464190@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180315124424.32319-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

CC: Peter Zijlstra 
CC: Jiri Olsa 
CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
CC: Alexander Shishkin 
CC: Namhyung Kim 
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: de7b2973903c6 ("tracepoint: Use struct pointer instead of name hash for reg/unreg tracepoints")
Reported-by: syzbot+9c0d616860575a73166a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+4e9ae7fa46233396f64d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:35+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:29+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail

2016-12-09T14:13:30+00:00

Some tracepoints have a registration function that gets enabled when the
tracepoint is enabled. There may be cases that the registraction function
must fail (for example, can't allocate enough memory). In this case, the
tracepoint should also fail to register, otherwise the user would not know
why the tracepoint is not working.

Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Seiji Aguchi 
Cc: Anton Blanchard 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

kernel/...: convert pr_warning to pr_warn

2016-03-22T22:36:02+00:00

Use the more common logging method with the eventual goal of removing
pr_warning altogether.

Miscellanea:

 - Realign arguments
 - Coalesce formats
 - Add missing space between a few coalesced formats

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 	[kernel/power/suspend.c]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracepoint: Give priority to probes of tracepoints

2015-10-26T01:33:54+00:00

In order to guarantee that a probe will be called before other probes that
are attached to a tracepoint, there needs to be a mechanism to provide
priority of one probe over the others.

Adding a prio field to the struct tracepoint_func, which lets the probes be
sorted by the priority set in the structure. If no priority is specified,
then a priority of 10 is given (this is a macro, and perhaps may be changed
in the future).

Now probes may be added to affect other probes that are attached to a
tracepoint with a guaranteed order.

One use case would be to allow tracing of tracepoints be able to filter by
pid. A special (higher priority probe) may be added to the sched_switch
tracepoint and set the necessary flags of the other tracepoints to notify
them if they should be traced or not. In case a tracepoint is enabled at the
sched_switch tracepoint too, the order of the two are not random.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: syscall_regfunc() should not skip kernel threads

2014-06-21T04:15:26+00:00

syscall_regfunc() ignores the kernel threads because "it has no effect",
see cc3b13c1 "Don't trace kernel thread syscalls" which added this check.

However, this means that a user-space task spawned by call_usermodehelper()
will run without TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT if sys_tracepoint_refcount != 0.

Remove this check. The unnecessary report from ret_from_fork path mentioned
by cc3b13c1 is no longer possible, see See commit fb45550d76bb5 "make sure
that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves".

A kernel_thread() callback can only return and take the int_ret_from_sys_call
path after do_execve() succeeds, otherwise the kernel will crash. But in this
case it is no longer a kernel thread and thus is needs TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140413185938.GD20668@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Change syscall_*regfunc() to check PF_KTHREAD and use for_each_process_thread()

2014-06-21T04:15:25+00:00

1. Remove _irqsafe from syscall_regfunc/syscall_unregfunc,
   read_lock(tasklist) doesn't need to disable irqs.

2. Change this code to avoid the deprecated do_each_thread()
   and use for_each_process_thread() (stolen from the patch
   from Frederic).

3. Change syscall_regfunc() to check PF_KTHREAD to skip
   the kernel threads, ->mm != NULL is the common mistake.

   Note: probably this check should be simply removed, needs
   another patch.

[fweisbec@gmail.com: s/do_each_thread/for_each_process_thread/]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140413185918.GC20668@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

kernel/tracepoint.c: kernel-doc fixes

2014-06-04T23:54:15+00:00

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds