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<title>hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context</title>
<updated>2013-07-28T23:30:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-05T10:09:18+00:00</published>
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commit 5ec2481b7b47a4005bb446d176e5d0257400c77d upstream.

smp_call_function_* must not be called from softirq context.

But clock_was_set() which calls on_each_cpu() is called from softirq
context to implement a delayed clock_was_set() for the timer interrupt
handler. Though that almost never gets invoked. A recent change in the
resume code uses the softirq based delayed clock_was_set to support
Xens resume mechanism.

linux-next contains a new warning which warns if smp_call_function_*
is called from softirq context which gets triggered by that Xen
change.

Fix this by moving the delayed clock_was_set() call to a work context.

Reported-and-tested-by: Artem Savkov &lt;artem.savkov@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;,
Cc: Konrad Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5ec2481b7b47a4005bb446d176e5d0257400c77d upstream.

smp_call_function_* must not be called from softirq context.

But clock_was_set() which calls on_each_cpu() is called from softirq
context to implement a delayed clock_was_set() for the timer interrupt
handler. Though that almost never gets invoked. A recent change in the
resume code uses the softirq based delayed clock_was_set to support
Xens resume mechanism.

linux-next contains a new warning which warns if smp_call_function_*
is called from softirq context which gets triggered by that Xen
change.

Fix this by moving the delayed clock_was_set() call to a work context.

Reported-and-tested-by: Artem Savkov &lt;artem.savkov@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;,
Cc: Konrad Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / Sleep: avoid 'autosleep' in shutdown progress</title>
<updated>2013-07-28T23:30:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liu ShuoX</name>
<email>shuox.liu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-11T08:03:45+00:00</published>
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commit e5248a111bf4048a9f3fab1a9c94c4630a10592a upstream.

Prevent automatic system suspend from happening during system
shutdown by making try_to_suspend() check system_state and return
immediately if it is not SYSTEM_RUNNING.

This prevents the following breakage from happening (scenario from
Zhang Yanmin):

 Kernel starts shutdown and calls all device driver's shutdown
 callback.  When a driver's shutdown is called, the last wakelock is
 released and suspend-to-ram starts.  However, as some driver's shut
 down callbacks already shut down devices and disabled runtime pm,
 the suspend-to-ram calls driver's suspend callback without noticing
 that device is already off and causes crash.

[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Liu ShuoX &lt;shuox.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e5248a111bf4048a9f3fab1a9c94c4630a10592a upstream.

Prevent automatic system suspend from happening during system
shutdown by making try_to_suspend() check system_state and return
immediately if it is not SYSTEM_RUNNING.

This prevents the following breakage from happening (scenario from
Zhang Yanmin):

 Kernel starts shutdown and calls all device driver's shutdown
 callback.  When a driver's shutdown is called, the last wakelock is
 released and suspend-to-ram starts.  However, as some driver's shut
 down callbacks already shut down devices and disabled runtime pm,
 the suspend-to-ram calls driver's suspend callback without noticing
 that device is already off and causes crash.

[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Liu ShuoX &lt;shuox.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling</title>
<updated>2013-07-25T21:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T19:30:53+00:00</published>
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commit 8e2e2fa47129532a30cff6c25a47078dc97d9260 upstream.

Commit a695cb58162 "tracing: Prevent deleting instances when they are being read"
tried to fix a race between deleting a trace instance and reading contents
of a trace file. But it wasn't good enough. The following could crash the kernel:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
 # ( while :; do mkdir foo; rmdir foo; done ) &amp;
 # ( while :; do echo 1 &gt; foo/events/sched/sched_switch 2&gt; /dev/null; done ) &amp;

Luckily this can only be done by root user, but it should be fixed regardless.

The problem is that a delete of the file can happen after the write to the event
is opened, but before the enabling happens.

The solution is to make sure the trace_array is available before succeeding in
opening for write, and incerment the ref counter while opened.

Now the instance can be deleted when the events are writing to the buffer,
but the deletion of the instance will disable all events before the instance
is actually deleted.

Reported-by: Alexander Lam &lt;azl@google.com&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 8e2e2fa47129532a30cff6c25a47078dc97d9260 upstream.

Commit a695cb58162 "tracing: Prevent deleting instances when they are being read"
tried to fix a race between deleting a trace instance and reading contents
of a trace file. But it wasn't good enough. The following could crash the kernel:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
 # ( while :; do mkdir foo; rmdir foo; done ) &amp;
 # ( while :; do echo 1 &gt; foo/events/sched/sched_switch 2&gt; /dev/null; done ) &amp;

Luckily this can only be done by root user, but it should be fixed regardless.

The problem is that a delete of the file can happen after the write to the event
is opened, but before the enabling happens.

The solution is to make sure the trace_array is available before succeeding in
opening for write, and incerment the ref counter while opened.

Now the instance can be deleted when the events are writing to the buffer,
but the deletion of the instance will disable all events before the instance
is actually deleted.

Reported-by: Alexander Lam &lt;azl@google.com&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events</title>
<updated>2013-07-25T21:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T18:48:23+00:00</published>
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commit 2a6c24afab70dbcfee49f4c76e1511eec1a3298b upstream.

While analyzing the code, I discovered that there's a potential race between
deleting a trace instance and setting events. There are a few races that can
occur if events are being traced as the buffer is being deleted. Mostly the
problem comes with freeing the descriptor used by the trace event callback.
To prevent problems like this, the events are disabled before the buffer is
deleted. The problem with the current solution is that the event_mutex is let
go between disabling the events and freeing the files, which means that the events
could be enabled again while the freeing takes place.

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 2a6c24afab70dbcfee49f4c76e1511eec1a3298b upstream.

While analyzing the code, I discovered that there's a potential race between
deleting a trace instance and setting events. There are a few races that can
occur if events are being traced as the buffer is being deleted. Mostly the
problem comes with freeing the descriptor used by the trace event callback.
To prevent problems like this, the events are disabled before the buffer is
deleted. The problem with the current solution is that the event_mutex is let
go between disabling the events and freeing the files, which means that the events
could be enabled again while the freeing takes place.

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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files</title>
<updated>2013-07-25T21:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T03:34:22+00:00</published>
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commit 7b85af63034818e43aee6c1d7bf1c7c6796a9073 upstream.

When a trace file is opened that may access a trace array, it must
increment its ref count to prevent it from being deleted.

Reported-by: Alexander Lam &lt;azl@google.com&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 7b85af63034818e43aee6c1d7bf1c7c6796a9073 upstream.

When a trace file is opened that may access a trace array, it must
increment its ref count to prevent it from being deleted.

Reported-by: Alexander Lam &lt;azl@google.com&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better</title>
<updated>2013-07-25T21:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T02:50:29+00:00</published>
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commit ff451961a8b2a17667a7bfa39c86fb9b351445db upstream.

Commit a695cb58162 "tracing: Prevent deleting instances when they are being read"
tried to fix a race between deleting a trace instance and reading contents
of a trace file. But it wasn't good enough. The following could crash the kernel:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
 # ( while :; do mkdir foo; rmdir foo; done ) &amp;
 # ( while :; do cat foo/trace &amp;&gt; /dev/null; done ) &amp;

Luckily this can only be done by root user, but it should be fixed regardless.

The problem is that a delete of the file can happen after the reader starts
to open the file but before it grabs the trace_types_mutex.

The solution is to validate the trace array before using it. If the trace
array does not exist in the list of trace arrays, then it returns -ENODEV.

There's a possibility that a trace_array could be deleted and a new one
created and the open would open its file instead. But that is very minor as
it will just return the data of the new trace array, it may confuse the user
but it will not crash the system. As this can only be done by root anyway,
the race will only occur if root is deleting what its trying to read at
the same time.

Reported-by: Alexander Lam &lt;azl@google.com&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 ff451961a8b2a17667a7bfa39c86fb9b351445db upstream.

Commit a695cb58162 "tracing: Prevent deleting instances when they are being read"
tried to fix a race between deleting a trace instance and reading contents
of a trace file. But it wasn't good enough. The following could crash the kernel:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
 # ( while :; do mkdir foo; rmdir foo; done ) &amp;
 # ( while :; do cat foo/trace &amp;&gt; /dev/null; done ) &amp;

Luckily this can only be done by root user, but it should be fixed regardless.

The problem is that a delete of the file can happen after the reader starts
to open the file but before it grabs the trace_types_mutex.

The solution is to validate the trace array before using it. If the trace
array does not exist in the list of trace arrays, then it returns -ENODEV.

There's a possibility that a trace_array could be deleted and a new one
created and the open would open its file instead. But that is very minor as
it will just return the data of the new trace array, it may confuse the user
but it will not crash the system. As this can only be done by root anyway,
the race will only occur if root is deleting what its trying to read at
the same time.

Reported-by: Alexander Lam &lt;azl@google.com&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c</title>
<updated>2013-07-25T21:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Z Lam</name>
<email>azl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T02:37:54+00:00</published>
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commit a82274151af2b075163e3c42c828529dee311487 upstream.

There are multiple places where the ftrace_trace_arrays list is accessed in
trace_events.c without the trace_types_lock held.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372732674-22726-1-git-send-email-azl@google.com

Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam &lt;azl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Sharp &lt;dhsharp@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Z Lam &lt;lambchop468@gmail.com&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 a82274151af2b075163e3c42c828529dee311487 upstream.

There are multiple places where the ftrace_trace_arrays list is accessed in
trace_events.c without the trace_types_lock held.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372732674-22726-1-git-send-email-azl@google.com

Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam &lt;azl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Sharp &lt;dhsharp@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Z Lam &lt;lambchop468@gmail.com&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer</title>
<updated>2013-07-25T21:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Z Lam</name>
<email>azl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-01T22:31:24+00:00</published>
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commit 2d71619c59fac95a5415a326162fa046161b938c upstream.

The trace_marker file was present for each new instance created, but it
added the trace mark to the global trace buffer instead of to
the instance's buffer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372717885-4543-2-git-send-email-azl@google.com

Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam &lt;azl@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Sharp &lt;dhsharp@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Z Lam &lt;lambchop468@gmail.com&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 2d71619c59fac95a5415a326162fa046161b938c upstream.

The trace_marker file was present for each new instance created, but it
added the trace mark to the global trace buffer instead of to
the instance's buffer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372717885-4543-2-git-send-email-azl@google.com

Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam &lt;azl@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Sharp &lt;dhsharp@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Z Lam &lt;lambchop468@gmail.com&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing</title>
<updated>2013-07-25T21:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhangwei(Jovi)</name>
<email>jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-10T03:26:23+00:00</published>
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commit 11034ae9c20f4057a6127fc965906417978e69b2 upstream.

All syscall tracing irqs-off tags are wrong, the syscall enter entry doesn't
disable irqs.

 [root@jovi tracing]#echo "syscalls:sys_enter_open" &gt; set_event
 [root@jovi tracing]# cat trace
 # tracer: nop
 #
 # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 13/13   #P:2
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
       irqbalance-513   [000] d... 56115.496766: sys_open(filename: 804e1a6, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
       irqbalance-513   [000] d... 56115.497008: sys_open(filename: 804e1bb, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
         sendmail-771   [000] d... 56115.827982: sys_open(filename: b770e6d1, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)

The reason is syscall tracing doesn't record irq_flags into buffer.
The proper display is:

 [root@jovi tracing]#echo "syscalls:sys_enter_open" &gt; set_event
 [root@jovi tracing]# cat trace
 # tracer: nop
 #
 # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 14/14   #P:2
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
       irqbalance-514   [001] ....    46.213921: sys_open(filename: 804e1a6, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
       irqbalance-514   [001] ....    46.214160: sys_open(filename: 804e1bb, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
            &lt;...&gt;-920   [001] ....    47.307260: sys_open(filename: 4e82a0c5, flags: 80000, mode: 0)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365564393-10972-3-git-send-email-jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) &lt;jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com&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 11034ae9c20f4057a6127fc965906417978e69b2 upstream.

All syscall tracing irqs-off tags are wrong, the syscall enter entry doesn't
disable irqs.

 [root@jovi tracing]#echo "syscalls:sys_enter_open" &gt; set_event
 [root@jovi tracing]# cat trace
 # tracer: nop
 #
 # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 13/13   #P:2
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
       irqbalance-513   [000] d... 56115.496766: sys_open(filename: 804e1a6, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
       irqbalance-513   [000] d... 56115.497008: sys_open(filename: 804e1bb, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
         sendmail-771   [000] d... 56115.827982: sys_open(filename: b770e6d1, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)

The reason is syscall tracing doesn't record irq_flags into buffer.
The proper display is:

 [root@jovi tracing]#echo "syscalls:sys_enter_open" &gt; set_event
 [root@jovi tracing]# cat trace
 # tracer: nop
 #
 # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 14/14   #P:2
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
       irqbalance-514   [001] ....    46.213921: sys_open(filename: 804e1a6, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
       irqbalance-514   [001] ....    46.214160: sys_open(filename: 804e1bb, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
            &lt;...&gt;-920   [001] ....    47.307260: sys_open(filename: 4e82a0c5, flags: 80000, mode: 0)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365564393-10972-3-git-send-email-jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) &lt;jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com&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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<title>tracing: Failed to create system directory</title>
<updated>2013-07-25T21:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-27T14:58:31+00:00</published>
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commit 6e94a780374ed31b280f939d4757e8d7858dff16 upstream.

Running the following:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo p:i do_sys_open &gt; kprobe_events
 # echo p:j schedule &gt;&gt; kprobe_events
 # cat kprobe_events
p:kprobes/i do_sys_open
p:kprobes/j schedule
 # echo p:i do_sys_open &gt;&gt; kprobe_events
 # cat kprobe_events
p:kprobes/j schedule
p:kprobes/i do_sys_open
 # ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/
enable  filter  j

Notice that the 'i' is missing from the kprobes directory.

The console produces:

"Failed to create system directory kprobes"

This is because kprobes passes in a allocated name for the system
and the ftrace event subsystem saves off that name instead of creating
a duplicate for it. But the kprobes may free the system name making
the pointer to it invalid.

This bug was introduced by 92edca073c37 "tracing: Use direct field, type
and system names" which switched from using kstrdup() on the system name
in favor of just keeping apointer to it, as the internal ftrace event
system names are static and exist for the life of the computer being booted.

Instead of reverting back to duplicating system names again, we can use
core_kernel_data() to determine if the passed in name was allocated or
static. Then use the MSB of the ref_count to be a flag to keep track if
the name was allocated or not. Then we can still save from having to duplicate
strings that will always exist, but still copy the ones that may be freed.

Reported-by: "zhangwei(Jovi)" &lt;jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&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 6e94a780374ed31b280f939d4757e8d7858dff16 upstream.

Running the following:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo p:i do_sys_open &gt; kprobe_events
 # echo p:j schedule &gt;&gt; kprobe_events
 # cat kprobe_events
p:kprobes/i do_sys_open
p:kprobes/j schedule
 # echo p:i do_sys_open &gt;&gt; kprobe_events
 # cat kprobe_events
p:kprobes/j schedule
p:kprobes/i do_sys_open
 # ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/
enable  filter  j

Notice that the 'i' is missing from the kprobes directory.

The console produces:

"Failed to create system directory kprobes"

This is because kprobes passes in a allocated name for the system
and the ftrace event subsystem saves off that name instead of creating
a duplicate for it. But the kprobes may free the system name making
the pointer to it invalid.

This bug was introduced by 92edca073c37 "tracing: Use direct field, type
and system names" which switched from using kstrdup() on the system name
in favor of just keeping apointer to it, as the internal ftrace event
system names are static and exist for the life of the computer being booted.

Instead of reverting back to duplicating system names again, we can use
core_kernel_data() to determine if the passed in name was allocated or
static. Then use the MSB of the ref_count to be a flag to keep track if
the name was allocated or not. Then we can still save from having to duplicate
strings that will always exist, but still copy the ones that may be freed.

Reported-by: "zhangwei(Jovi)" &lt;jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&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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