summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/kernel/trace/trace.c
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
12 daystrace: ftrace_dump_on_oops[] is not exported, make it staticBen Dooks
The ftrace_dump_on_oops string is not used outside of trace.c so make it static to avoid the export warning from sparse: kernel/trace/trace.c:141:6: warning: symbol 'ftrace_dump_on_oops' was not declared. Should it be static? Fixes: dd293df6395a2 ("tracing: Move trace sysctls into trace.c") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106231054.84270-1-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
12 daystracing: Add recursion protection in kernel stack trace recordingSteven Rostedt
A bug was reported about an infinite recursion caused by tracing the rcu events with the kernel stack trace trigger enabled. The stack trace code called back into RCU which then called the stack trace again. Expand the ftrace recursion protection to add a set of bits to protect events from recursion. Each bit represents the context that the event is in (normal, softirq, interrupt and NMI). Have the stack trace code use the interrupt context to protect against recursion. Note, the bug showed an issue in both the RCU code as well as the tracing stacktrace code. This only handles the tracing stack trace side of the bug. The RCU fix will be handled separately. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260102122807.7025fc87@gandalf.local.home/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260105203141.515cd49f@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Yao Kai <yaokai34@huawei.com> Tested-by: Yao Kai <yaokai34@huawei.com> Fixes: 5f5fa7ea89dc ("rcu: Don't use negative nesting depth in __rcu_read_unlock()") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-12-17tracing: Fix UBSAN warning in __remove_instance()Darrick J. Wong
xfs/558 triggers the following UBSAN warning: ------------[ cut here ]------------ UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in kernel/trace/trace.c:10510:10 shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'int' CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 888674 Comm: rmdir Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1-xfsx #rc1 PREEMPT(lazy) dbf607ef4c142c563f76d706e71af9731d7b9c90 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-4.module+el8.8.0+21164+ed375313 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x70 ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x2b __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0x5e/0x113 __remove_instance.part.0.constprop.0.cold+0x18/0x26f instance_rmdir+0xf3/0x110 tracefs_syscall_rmdir+0x4d/0x90 vfs_rmdir+0x139/0x230 do_rmdir+0x143/0x230 __x64_sys_rmdir+0x1d/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x44/0x230 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 RIP: 0033:0x7f7ae8e51f17 Code: f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d de 2e 0e 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 b8 54 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 01 c3 48 8b 15 b1 2e 0e 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 RSP: 002b:00007ffd90743f08 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000054 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd907440f8 RCX: 00007f7ae8e51f17 RDX: 00007f7ae8f3c5c0 RSI: 00007ffd90744a21 RDI: 00007ffd90744a21 RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00007f7ae8f35ac0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd90744a21 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007f7ae8f8b000 R15: 000055e5283e6a98 </TASK> ---[ end trace ]--- whilst tearing down an ftrace instance. TRACE_FLAGS_MAX_SIZE is now 64bit, so the mask comparison expression must be typecast to a u64 value to avoid an overflow. AFAICT, ZEROED_TRACE_FLAGS is already cast to ULL so this is ok. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216174950.GA7705@frogsfrogsfrogs Fixes: bbec8e28cac592 ("tracing: Allow tracer to add more than 32 options") Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-12-05tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace.cMaurice Hieronymus
Fix multiple typos in comments: "alse" -> "also" "enabed" -> "enabled" "instane" -> "instance" "outputing" -> "outputting" "seperated" -> "separated" Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121221835.28032-7-mhi@mailbox.org Signed-off-by: Maurice Hieronymus <mhi@mailbox.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-12-05tracing: Fix enabling of tracing on file releaseSteven Rostedt
The trace file will pause tracing if the tracing instance has the "pause-on-trace" option is set. This happens when the file is opened, and it is unpaused when the file is closed. When this was first added, there was only one user that paused tracing. On open, the check to pause was: if (!iter->snapshot && (tr->trace_flags & TRACE_ITER(PAUSE_ON_TRACE))) Where if it is not the snapshot tracer and the "pause-on-trace" option is set, then it increments a "stop_count" of the trace instance. On close, the check is: if (!iter->snapshot && tr->stop_count) That is, if it is not the snapshot buffer and it was stopped, it will re-enable tracing. Now there's more places that stop tracing. This means, if something else stops tracing the tr->stop_count will be non-zero, and that means if the trace file is closed, it will decrement the stop_count even though it never incremented it. This causes a warning because when the user that stopped tracing enables it again, the stop_count goes below zero. Instead of relying on the stop_count being set to know if the close of the trace file should enable tracing again, add a new flag to the trace iterator. The trace iterator is unique per open of the trace file, and if the open stops tracing set the trace iterator PAUSE flag. On close, if the PAUSE flag is set, then re-enable it again. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251202161751.24abaaf1@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 06e0a548bad0f ("tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the trace file") Reported-by: syzbot+ccdec3bfe0beec58a38d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/692f44a5.a70a0220.2ea503.00c8.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-12-05Merge tag 'trace-rv-6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull runtime verifier updates from Steven Rostedt: - Adapt the ftracetest script to be run from a different folder This uses the already existing OPT_TEST_DIR but extends it further to run independent tests, then add an --rv flag to allow using the script for testing RV (mostly) independently on ftrace. - Add basic RV selftests in selftests/verification for more validations Add more validations for available/enabled monitors and reactors. This could have caught the bug introducing kernel panic solved above. Tests use ftracetest. - Convert react() function in reactor to use va_list directly Use a central helper to handle the variadic arguments. Clean up macros and mark functions as static. - Add lockdep annotations to reactors to have lockdep complain of errors If the reactors are called from improper context. Useful to develop new reactors. This highlights a warning in the panic reactor that is related to the printk subsystem and not to RV. - Convert core RV code to use lock guards and __free helpers This completely removes goto statements. - Fix compilation if !CONFIG_RV_REACTORS Fix the warning by keeping LTL monitor variable as always static. * tag 'trace-rv-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: rv: Fix compilation if !CONFIG_RV_REACTORS rv: Convert to use __free rv: Convert to use lock guard rv: Add explicit lockdep context for reactors rv: Make rv_reacting_on() static rv: Pass va_list to reactors selftests/verification: Add initial RV tests selftest/ftrace: Generalise ftracetest to use with RV
2025-12-05Merge tag 'trace-v6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Extend tracing option mask to 64 bits The trace options were defined by a 32 bit variable. This limits the tracing instances to have a total of 32 different options. As that limit has been hit, and more options are being added, increase the option mask to a 64 bit number, doubling the number of options available. As this is required for the kprobe topic branches as well as the tracing topic branch, a separate branch was created and merged into both. - Make trace_user_fault_read() available for the rest of tracing The function trace_user_fault_read() is used by trace_marker file read to allow reading user space to be done fast and without locking or allocations. Make this available so that the system call trace events can use it too. - Have system call trace events read user space values Now that the system call trace events callbacks are called in a faultable context, take advantage of this and read the user space buffers for various system calls. For example, show the path name of the openat system call instead of just showing the pointer to that path name in user space. Also show the contents of the buffer of the write system call. Several system call trace events are updated to make tracing into a light weight strace tool for all applications in the system. - Update perf system call tracing to do the same - And a config and syscall_user_buf_size file to control the size of the buffer Limit the amount of data that can be read from user space. The default size is 63 bytes but that can be expanded to 165 bytes. - Allow the persistent ring buffer to print system calls normally The persistent ring buffer prints trace events by their type and ignores the print_fmt. This is because the print_fmt may change from kernel to kernel. As the system call output is fixed by the system call ABI itself, there's no reason to limit that. This makes reading the system call events in the persistent ring buffer much nicer and easier to understand. - Add options to show text offset to function profiler The function profiler that counts the number of times a function is hit currently lists all functions by its name and offset. But this becomes ambiguous when there are several functions with the same name. Add a tracing option that changes the output to be that of '_text+offset' instead. Now a user space tool can use this information to map the '_text+offset' to the unique function it is counting. - Report bad dynamic event command If a bad command is passed to the dynamic_events file, report it properly in the error log. - Clean up tracer options Clean up the tracer option code a bit, by removing some useless code and also using switch statements instead of a series of if statements. - Have tracing options be instance specific Tracers can have their own options (function tracer, irqsoff tracer, function graph tracer, etc). But now that the same tracer can be enabled in multiple trace instances, their options are still global. The API is per instance, thus changing one affects other instances. This isn't even consistent, as the option take affect differently depending on when an tracer started in an instance. Make the options for instances only affect the instance it is changed under. - Optimize pid_list lock contention Whenever the pid_list is read, it uses a spin lock. This happens at every sched switch. Taking the lock at sched switch can be removed by instead using a seqlock counter. - Clean up the trace trigger structures The trigger code uses two different structures to implement a single tigger. This was due to trying to reuse code for the two different types of triggers (always on trigger, and count limited trigger). But by adding a single field to one structure, the other structure could be absorbed into the first structure making he code easier to understand. - Create a bulk garbage collector for trace triggers If user space has triggers for several hundreds of events and then removes them, it can take several seconds to complete. This is because each removal calls tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() that can take hundreds of milliseconds to complete. Instead, create a helper thread that will do the clean up. When a trigger is removed, it will create the kthread if it isn't already created, and then add the trigger to a llist. The kthread will take the items off the llist, call tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(), and then remove the items it took off. It will then check if there's more items to free before sleeping. This makes user space removing all these triggers to finish in less than a second. - Allow function tracing of some of the tracing infrastructure code Because the tracing code can cause recursion issues if it is traced by the function tracer the entire tracing directory disables function tracing. But not all of tracing causes issues if it is traced. Namely, the event tracing code. Add a config that enables some of the tracing code to be traced to help in debugging it. Note, when this is enabled, it does add noise to general function tracing, especially if events are enabled as well (which is a common case). - Add boot-time backup instance for persistent buffer The persistent ring buffer is used mostly for kernel crash analysis in the field. One issue is that if there's a crash, the data in the persistent ring buffer must be read before tracing can begin using it. This slows down the boot process. Once tracing starts in the persistent ring buffer, the old data must be freed and the addresses no longer match and old events can't be in the buffer with new events. Create a way to create a backup buffer that copies the persistent ring buffer at boot up. Then after a crash, the always on tracer can begin immediately as well as the normal boot process while the crash analysis tooling uses the backup buffer. After the backup buffer is finished being read, it can be removed. - Enable function graph args and return address options at the same time Currently the when reading of arguments in the function graph tracer is enabled, the option to record the parent function in the entry event can not be enabled. Update the code so that it can. - Add new struct_offset() helper macro Add a new macro that takes a pointer to a structure and a name of one of its members and it will return the offset of that member. This allows the ring buffer code to simplify the following: From: size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id)); To: size = struct_offset(entry, id) + cnt; There should be other simplifications that this macro can help out with as well * tag 'trace-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (42 commits) overflow: Introduce struct_offset() to get offset of member function_graph: Enable funcgraph-args and funcgraph-retaddr to work simultaneously tracing: Add boot-time backup of persistent ring buffer ftrace: Allow tracing of some of the tracing code tracing: Use strim() in trigger_process_regex() instead of skip_spaces() tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing event_trigger_data tracing: Remove unneeded event_mutex lock in event_trigger_regex_release() tracing: Merge struct event_trigger_ops into struct event_command tracing: Remove get_trigger_ops() and add count_func() from trigger ops tracing: Show the tracer options in boot-time created instance ftrace: Avoid redundant initialization in register_ftrace_direct tracing: Remove unused variable in tracing_trace_options_show() fgraph: Make fgraph_no_sleep_time signed tracing: Convert function graph set_flags() to use a switch() statement tracing: Have function graph tracer option sleep-time be per instance tracing: Move graph-time out of function graph options tracing: Have function graph tracer option funcgraph-irqs be per instance trace/pid_list: optimize pid_list->lock contention tracing: Have function graph tracer define options per instance tracing: Have function tracer define options per instance ...
2025-12-02rv: Convert to use __freeNam Cao
Convert to use __free to tidy up the code. Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/62854e2fcb8f8dd2180a98a9700702dcf89a6980.1763370183.git.namcao@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
2025-11-27overflow: Introduce struct_offset() to get offset of memberSteven Rostedt
The trace_marker_raw file in tracefs takes a buffer from user space that contains an id as well as a raw data string which is usually a binary structure. The structure used has the following: struct raw_data_entry { struct trace_entry ent; unsigned int id; char buf[]; }; Since the passed in "cnt" variable is both the size of buf as well as the size of id, the code to allocate the location on the ring buffer had: size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id)); Which is quite ugly and hard to understand. Instead, add a helper macro called struct_offset() which then changes the above to a simple and easy to understand: size = struct_offset(entry, id) + cnt; This will likely come in handy for other use cases too. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whYZVoEdfO1PmtbirPdBMTV9Nxt9f09CK0k6S+HJD3Zmg@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251126145249.05b1770a@gandalf.local.home Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-26tracing: Add boot-time backup of persistent ring bufferMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
Currently, the persistent ring buffer instance needs to be read before using it. This means we have to wait for boot up user space and dump the persistent ring buffer. However, in that case we can not start tracing on it from the kernel cmdline. To solve this limitation, this adds an option which allows to create a trace instance as a backup of the persistent ring buffer at boot. If user specifies trace_instance=<BACKUP>=<PERSIST_RB> then the <BACKUP> instance is made as a copy of the <PERSIST_RB> instance. For example, the below kernel cmdline records all syscalls, scheduler and interrupt events on the persistent ring buffer `boot_map` but before starting the tracing, it makes a `backup` instance from the `boot_map`. Thus, the `backup` instance has the previous boot events. 'reserve_mem=12M:4M:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace,syscalls:*,sched:*,irq:* trace_instance=backup=boot_map' As you can see, this just make a copy of entire reserved area and make a backup instance on it. So you can release (or shrink) the backup instance after use it to save the memory usage. /sys/kernel/tracing/instances # free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1999284 55704 1930520 10132 13060 1914628 Swap: 0 0 0 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances # rmdir backup/ /sys/kernel/tracing/instances # free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1999284 40640 1945584 10132 13060 1929692 Swap: 0 0 0 Note: since there is no reason to make a copy of empty buffer, this backup only accepts a persistent ring buffer as the original instance. Also, since this backup is based on vmalloc(), it does not support user-space mmap(). Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/176377150002.219692.9425536150438129267.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-26tracing: Show the tracer options in boot-time created instanceMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
Since tracer_init_tracefs_work_func() only updates the tracer options for the global_trace, the instances created by the kernel cmdline do not have those options. Fix to update tracer options for those boot-time created instances to show those options. Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/176354112555.2356172.3989277078358802353.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Fixes: 428add559b69 ("tracing: Have tracer option be instance specific") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-26tracing: Remove unused variable in tracing_trace_options_show()Steven Rostedt
The flags and opts used in tracing_trace_options_show() now come directly from the trace array "current_trace_flags" and not the current_trace. The variable "trace" was still being assigned to tr->current_trace but never used. This caused a warning in clang. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251117120637.43ef995d@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com> Tested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aRtHWXzYa8ijUIDa@black.igk.intel.com/ Fixes: 428add559b692 ("tracing: Have tracer option be instance specific") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-25tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close for split VMAsDeepanshu Kartikey
When a VMA is split (e.g., by partial munmap or MAP_FIXED), the kernel calls vm_ops->close on each portion. For trace buffer mappings, this results in ring_buffer_unmap() being called multiple times while ring_buffer_map() was only called once. This causes ring_buffer_unmap() to return -ENODEV on subsequent calls because user_mapped is already 0, triggering a WARN_ON. Trace buffer mappings cannot support partial mappings because the ring buffer structure requires the complete buffer including the meta page. Fix this by adding a may_split callback that returns -EINVAL to prevent VMA splits entirely. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: cf9f0f7c4c5bb ("tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119064019.25904-1-kartikey406@gmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a72c325b042aae6403c7 Tested-by: syzbot+a72c325b042aae6403c7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+a72c325b042aae6403c7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-14tracing: Move graph-time out of function graph optionsSteven Rostedt
The option "graph-time" affects the function profiler when it is using the function graph infrastructure. It has nothing to do with the function graph tracer itself. The option only affects the global function profiler and does nothing to the function graph tracer. Move it out of the function graph tracer options and make it a global option that is only available at the top level instance. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114192318.781711154@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-12tracing: Have tracer option be instance specificSteven Rostedt
Tracers can add specify options to modify them. This logic was added before instances were created and the tracer flags were global variables. After instances were created where a tracer may exist in more than one instance, the flags were not updated from being global into instance specific. This causes confusion with these options. For example, the function tracer has an option to enable function arguments: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing # mkdir instances/foo # echo function > instances/foo/current_tracer # echo 1 > options/func-args # echo function > current_tracer # cat trace [..] <idle>-0 [005] d..3. 1050.656187: rcu_needs_cpu() <-tick_nohz_next_event <idle>-0 [005] d..3. 1050.656188: get_next_timer_interrupt(basej=0x10002dbad, basem=0xf45fd7d300) <-tick_nohz_next_event <idle>-0 [005] d..3. 1050.656189: _raw_spin_lock(lock=0xffff8944bdf5de80) <-__get_next_timer_interrupt <idle>-0 [005] d..4. 1050.656190: do_raw_spin_lock(lock=0xffff8944bdf5de80) <-__get_next_timer_interrupt <idle>-0 [005] d..4. 1050.656191: _raw_spin_lock_nested(lock=0xffff8944bdf5f140, subclass=1) <-__get_next_timer_interrupt # cat instances/foo/options/func-args 1 # cat instances/foo/trace [..] kworker/4:1-88 [004] ...1. 298.127735: next_zone <-refresh_cpu_vm_stats kworker/4:1-88 [004] ...1. 298.127736: first_online_pgdat <-refresh_cpu_vm_stats kworker/4:1-88 [004] ...1. 298.127738: next_online_pgdat <-refresh_cpu_vm_stats kworker/4:1-88 [004] ...1. 298.127739: fold_diff <-refresh_cpu_vm_stats kworker/4:1-88 [004] ...1. 298.127741: round_jiffies_relative <-vmstat_update [..] The above shows that setting "func-args" in the top level instance also set it in the instance "foo", but since the interface of the trace flags are per instance, the update didn't take affect in the "foo" instance. Update the infrastructure to allow tracers to add a "default_flags" field in the tracer structure that can be set instead of "flags" which will make the flags per instance. If a tracer needs to keep the flags global (like blktrace), keeping the "flags" field set will keep the old behavior. This does not update function or the function graph tracers. That will be handled later. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111232429.305317942@kernel.org Fixes: f20a580627f43 ("ftrace: Allow instances to use function tracing") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-10tracing: Use switch statement instead of ifs in set_tracer_flag()Steven Rostedt
The "mask" passed in to set_trace_flag() has a single bit set. The function then checks if the mask is equal to one of the option masks and performs the appropriate function associated to that option. Instead of having a bunch of "if ()" statement, use a "switch ()" statement instead to make it cleaner and a bit more optimal. No function changes. Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106003501.890298562@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-10tracing: Exit out immediately after update_marker_trace()Steven Rostedt
The call to update_marker_trace() in set_tracer_flag() performs the update to the tr->trace_flags. There's no reason to perform it again after it is called. Return immediately instead. Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106003501.726406870@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-10tracing: Have add_tracer_options() error pass up to callersSteven Rostedt
The function add_tracer_options() can fail, but currently it is ignored. Pass the status of add_tracer_options() up to adding a new tracer as well as when an instance is created. Have the instance creation fail if the add_tracer_options() fail. Only print a warning for the top level instance, like it does with other failures. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105161935.375299297@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-10tracing: Remove dummy options and flagsSteven Rostedt
When a tracer does not define their own flags, dummy options and flags are used so that the values are always valid. There's not that many locations that reference these values so having dummy versions just complicates the code. Remove the dummy values and just check for NULL when appropriate. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105161935.206093132@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-04Merge branch 'topic/func-profiler-offset' of ↵Steven Rostedt
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mhiramat/linux into trace/trace/core Updates to the function profiler adds new options to tracefs. The options are currently defined by an enum as flags. The added options brings the number of options over 32, which means they can no longer be held in a 32 bit enum. The TRACE_ITER_* flags are converted to a macro TRACE_ITER(*) to allow the creation of options to still be done by macros. This change is intrusive, as it affects all TRACE_ITER* options throughout the trace code. Merge the branch that added these options and converted the TRACE_ITER_* enum into a TRACE_ITER(*) macro, to allow the topic branches to still be developed without conflict. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-04tracing: Add an option to show symbols in _text+offset for function profilerMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
Function profiler shows the hit count of each function using its symbol name. However, there are some same-name local symbols, which we can not distinguish. To solve this issue, this introduces an option to show the symbols in "_text+OFFSET" format. This can avoid exposing the random shift of KASLR. The functions in modules are shown as "MODNAME+OFFSET" where the offset is from ".text". E.g. for the kernel text symbols, specify vmlinux and the output to addr2line, you can find the actual function and source info; $ addr2line -fie vmlinux _text+3078208 __balance_callbacks kernel/sched/core.c:5064 for modules, specify the module file and .text+OFFSET; $ addr2line -fie samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.ko .text+8224 do_simple_thread_func samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c:23 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/176187878064.994619.8878296550240416558.stgit@devnote2/ Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2025-11-04tracing: Allow tracer to add more than 32 optionsMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
Since enum trace_iterator_flags is 32bit, the max number of the option flags is limited to 32 and it is fully used now. To add a new option, we need to expand it. So replace the TRACE_ITER_##flag with TRACE_ITER(flag) macro which is 64bit bitmask. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/176187877103.994619.166076000668757232.stgit@devnote2/ Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2025-10-28tracing: Have persistent ring buffer print syscalls normallySteven Rostedt
The persistent ring buffer from a previous boot has to be careful printing events as the print formats of random events can have pointers to strings and such that are not available. Ftrace static events (like the function tracer event) are stable and are printed normally. System call event formats are also stable. Allow them to be printed normally as well: Instead of: <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240405: sys_enter_waitid: __syscall_nr=0xf7 (247) which=0x1 (1) upid=0x499 (1177) infop=0x7ffd5294d690 (140725988939408) options=0x5 (5) ru=0x0 (0) <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240433: sys_exit_waitid: __syscall_nr=0xf7 (247) ret=0x0 (0) <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240437: sys_enter_rt_sigprocmask: __syscall_nr=0xe (14) how=0x2 (2) nset=0x7ffd5294d7c0 (140725988939712) oset=0x0 (0) sigsetsize=0x8 (8) <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240438: sys_exit_rt_sigprocmask: __syscall_nr=0xe (14) ret=0x0 (0) <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240442: sys_enter_close: __syscall_nr=0x3 (3) fd=0x4 (4) <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240463: sys_exit_close: __syscall_nr=0x3 (3) ret=0x0 (0) <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240485: sys_enter_openat: __syscall_nr=0x101 (257) dfd=0xffffffffffdfff9c (-2097252) filename=(0xffff8b81639ca01c) flags=0x80000 (524288) mode=0x0 (0) __filename_val=/run/systemd/reboot-param <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240555: sys_exit_openat: __syscall_nr=0x101 (257) ret=0xffffffffffdffffe (-2097154) <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240571: sys_enter_openat: __syscall_nr=0x101 (257) dfd=0xffffffffffdfff9c (-2097252) filename=(0xffff8b81639ca01c) flags=0x80000 (524288) mode=0x0 (0) __filename_val=/run/systemd/reboot-param <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240620: sys_exit_openat: __syscall_nr=0x101 (257) ret=0xffffffffffdffffe (-2097154) <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.240629: sys_enter_writev: __syscall_nr=0x14 (20) fd=0x3 (3) vec=0x7ffd5294ce50 (140725988937296) vlen=0x7 (7) <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.242281: sys_exit_writev: __syscall_nr=0x14 (20) ret=0x24 (36) <...>-1 [005] ...1. 57.242286: sys_enter_reboot: __syscall_nr=0xa9 (169) magic1=0xfee1dead (4276215469) magic2=0x28121969 (672274793) cmd=0x1234567 (19088743) arg=0x0 (0) Have: <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446011: sys_waitid(which: 1, upid: 0x4d2, infop: 0x7ffdccdadfd0, options: 5, ru: 0) <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446042: sys_waitid -> 0x0 <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446045: sys_rt_sigprocmask(how: 2, nset: 0x7ffdccdae100, oset: 0, sigsetsize: 8) <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446047: sys_rt_sigprocmask -> 0x0 <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446051: sys_close(fd: 4) <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446073: sys_close -> 0x0 <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446095: sys_openat(dfd: 18446744073709551516, filename: 139732544945794 "/run/systemd/reboot-param", flags: O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446165: sys_openat -> 0xfffffffffffffffe <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446182: sys_openat(dfd: 18446744073709551516, filename: 139732544945794 "/run/systemd/reboot-param", flags: O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446233: sys_openat -> 0xfffffffffffffffe <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.446242: sys_writev(fd: 3, vec: 0x7ffdccdad790, vlen: 7) <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.447877: sys_writev -> 0x24 <...>-1 [000] ...1. 91.447883: sys_reboot(magic1: 0xfee1dead, magic2: 0x28121969, cmd: 0x1234567, arg: 0) Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231149.097404581@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-10-28tracing: Add a config and syscall_user_buf_size file to limit amount writtenSteven Rostedt
When a system call that can copy user space addresses into the ring buffer, it can copy up to 511 bytes of data. This can waste precious ring buffer space if the user isn't interested in the output. Add a new file "syscall_user_buf_size" that gets initialized to a new config CONFIG_SYSCALL_BUF_SIZE_DEFAULT that defaults to 63. The config also is used to limit how much perf can read from user space. Also lower the max down to 165, as this isn't to record everything that a system call may be passing through to the kernel. 165 is more than enough. The reason for 165 is because adding one for the nul terminating byte, as well as possibly needing to append the "..." string turns it into 170 bytes. As this needs to save up to 3 arguments and 3 * 170 is 510 which fits nicely in 512 bytes (a power of 2). Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231148.260068913@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-10-28tracing: Make trace_user_fault_read() exposed to rest of tracingSteven Rostedt
The write to the trace_marker file is a critical section where it cannot take locks nor allocate memory. To read from user space, it allocates a per CPU buffer when the trace_marker file is opened, and then when the write system call is performed, it uses the following method to read from user space: preempt_disable(); buffer = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_buffers, cpu); do { cnt = nr_context_switches_cpu(); migrate_disable(); preempt_enable(); ret = copy_from_user(buffer, ptr, len); preempt_disable(); migrate_enable(); } while (!ret && cnt != nr_context_switches_cpu()); if (!ret) ring_buffer_write(buffer); preempt_enable(); It records the number of context switches for the current CPU, enables preemption, copies from user space, disable preemption and then checks if the number of context switches changed. If it did not, then the buffer is valid, otherwise the buffer may have been corrupted and the read from user space must be tried again. The system call trace events are now faultable and have the same restrictions as the trace_marker write. For system calls to read the user space buffer (for example to read the file of the openat system call), it needs the same logic. Instead of copying the code over to the system call trace events, make the code generic to allow the system call trace events to use the same code. The following API is added internally to the tracing sub system (these are only exposed within the tracing subsystem and not to be used outside of it): trace_user_fault_init() - initializes a trace_user_buf_info descriptor that will allocate the per CPU buffers to copy from user space into. trace_user_fault_destroy() - used to free the allocations made by trace_user_fault_init(). trace_user_fault_get() - update the ref count of the info descriptor to allow more than one user to use the same descriptor. trace_user_fault_put() - decrement the ref count. trace_user_fault_read() - performs the above action to read user space into the per CPU buffer. The preempt_disable() is expected before calling this function and preemption must remain disabled while the buffer returned is in use. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231147.096570057@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-10-11Merge tag 'trace-v6.18-3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "The previous fix to trace_marker required updating trace_marker_raw as well. The difference between trace_marker_raw from trace_marker is that the raw version is for applications to write binary structures directly into the ring buffer instead of writing ASCII strings. This is for applications that will read the raw data from the ring buffer and get the data structures directly. It's a bit quicker than using the ASCII version. Unfortunately, it appears that our test suite has several tests that test writes to the trace_marker file, but lacks any tests to the trace_marker_raw file (this needs to be remedied). Two issues came about the update to the trace_marker_raw file that syzbot found: - Fix tracing_mark_raw_write() to use per CPU buffer The fix to use the per CPU buffer to copy from user space was needed for both the trace_maker and trace_maker_raw file. The fix for reading from user space into per CPU buffers properly fixed the trace_marker write function, but the trace_marker_raw file wasn't fixed properly. The user space data was correctly written into the per CPU buffer, but the code that wrote into the ring buffer still used the user space pointer and not the per CPU buffer that had the user space data already written. - Stop the fortify string warning from writing into trace_marker_raw After converting the copy_from_user_nofault() into a memcpy(), another issue appeared. As writes to the trace_marker_raw expects binary data, the first entry is a 4 byte identifier. The entry structure is defined as: struct { struct trace_entry ent; int id; char buf[]; }; The size of this structure is reserved on the ring buffer with: size = sizeof(*entry) + cnt; Then it is copied from the buffer into the ring buffer with: memcpy(&entry->id, buf, cnt); This use to be a copy_from_user_nofault(), but now converting it to a memcpy() triggers the fortify-string code, and causes a warning. The allocated space is actually more than what is copied, as the cnt used also includes the entry->id portion. Allocating sizeof(*entry) plus cnt is actually allocating 4 bytes more than what is needed. Change the size function to: size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id)); And update the memcpy() to unsafe_memcpy()" * tag 'trace-v6.18-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: tracing: Stop fortify-string from warning in tracing_mark_raw_write() tracing: Fix tracing_mark_raw_write() to use buf and not ubuf
2025-10-11tracing: Stop fortify-string from warning in tracing_mark_raw_write()Steven Rostedt
The way tracing_mark_raw_write() records its data is that it has the following structure: struct { struct trace_entry; int id; char buf[]; }; But memcpy(&entry->id, buf, size) triggers the following warning when the size is greater than the id: ------------[ cut here ]------------ memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 6) of single field "&entry->id" at kernel/trace/trace.c:7458 (size 4) WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 995 at kernel/trace/trace.c:7458 write_raw_marker_to_buffer.isra.0+0x1f9/0x2e0 Modules linked in: CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 995 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.17.0-test-00007-g60b82183e78a-dirty #211 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:write_raw_marker_to_buffer.isra.0+0x1f9/0x2e0 Code: 04 00 75 a7 b9 04 00 00 00 48 89 de 48 89 04 24 48 c7 c2 e0 b1 d1 b2 48 c7 c7 40 b2 d1 b2 c6 05 2d 88 6a 04 01 e8 f7 e8 bd ff <0f> 0b 48 8b 04 24 e9 76 ff ff ff 49 8d 7c 24 04 49 8d 5c 24 08 48 RSP: 0018:ffff888104c3fc78 EFLAGS: 00010292 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000006 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 1ffffffff6b363b4 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffff888100058a00 R08: ffffffffb041d459 R09: ffffed1020987f40 R10: 0000000000000007 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff888100bb9010 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000000003e3 R15: ffff888134800000 FS: 00007fa61d286740(0000) GS:ffff888286cad000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000560d28d509f1 CR3: 00000001047a4006 CR4: 0000000000172ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> tracing_mark_raw_write+0x1fe/0x290 ? __pfx_tracing_mark_raw_write+0x10/0x10 ? security_file_permission+0x50/0xf0 ? rw_verify_area+0x6f/0x4b0 vfs_write+0x1d8/0xdd0 ? __pfx_vfs_write+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_css_rstat_updated+0x10/0x10 ? count_memcg_events+0xd9/0x410 ? fdget_pos+0x53/0x5e0 ksys_write+0x182/0x200 ? __pfx_ksys_write+0x10/0x10 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x4af/0xa30 do_syscall_64+0x63/0x350 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fa61d318687 Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 58 b3 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff RSP: 002b:00007ffd87fe0120 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa61d286740 RCX: 00007fa61d318687 RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 0000560d28d509f0 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 0000560d28d509f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000006 R13: 00007fa61d4715c0 R14: 00007fa61d46ee80 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- This is because fortify string sees that the size of entry->id is only 4 bytes, but it is writing more than that. But this is OK as the dynamic_array is allocated to handle that copy. The size allocated on the ring buffer was actually a bit too big: size = sizeof(*entry) + cnt; But cnt includes the 'id' and the buffer data, so adding cnt to the size of *entry actually allocates too much on the ring buffer. Change the allocation to: size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id)); and the memcpy() to unsafe_memcpy() with an added justification. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251011112032.77be18e4@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 64cf7d058a00 ("tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space") Reported-by: syzbot+9a2ede1643175f350105@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68e973f5.050a0220.1186a4.0010.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-10-10tracing: Fix tracing_mark_raw_write() to use buf and not ubufSteven Rostedt
The fix to use a per CPU buffer to read user space tested only the writes to trace_marker. But it appears that the selftests are missing tests to the trace_maker_raw file. The trace_maker_raw file is used by applications that writes data structures and not strings into the file, and the tools read the raw ring buffer to process the structures it writes. The fix that reads the per CPU buffers passes the new per CPU buffer to the trace_marker file writes, but the update to the trace_marker_raw write read the data from user space into the per CPU buffer, but then still used then passed the user space address to the function that records the data. Pass in the per CPU buffer and not the user space address. TODO: Add a test to better test trace_marker_raw. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251011035243.386098147@kernel.org Fixes: 64cf7d058a00 ("tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space") Reported-by: syzbot+9a2ede1643175f350105@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68e973f5.050a0220.1186a4.0010.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-10-09Merge tag 'trace-v6.18-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing clean up and fixes from Steven Rostedt: - Have osnoise tracer use memdup_user_nul() The function osnoise_cpus_write() open codes a kmalloc() and then a copy_from_user() and then adds a nul byte at the end which is the same as simply using memdup_user_nul(). - Fix wakeup and irq tracers when failing to acquire calltime When the wakeup and irq tracers use the function graph tracer for tracing function times, it saves a timestamp into the fgraph shadow stack. It is possible that this could fail to be stored. If that happens, it exits the routine early. These functions also disable nesting of the operations by incremeting the data "disable" counter. But if the calltime exits out early, it never increments the counter back to what it needs to be. Since there's only a couple of lines of code that does work after acquiring the calltime, instead of exiting out early, reverse the if statement to be true if calltime is acquired, and place the code that is to be done within that if block. The clean up will always be done after that. - Fix ring_buffer_map() return value on failure of __rb_map_vma() If __rb_map_vma() fails in ring_buffer_map(), it does not return an error. This means the caller will be working against a bad vma mapping. Have ring_buffer_map() return an error when __rb_map_vma() fails. - Fix regression of writing to the trace_marker file A bug fix was made to change __copy_from_user_inatomic() to copy_from_user_nofault() in the trace_marker write function. The trace_marker file is used by applications to write into it (usually with a file descriptor opened at the start of the program) to record into the tracing system. It's usually used in critical sections so the write to trace_marker is highly optimized. The reason for copying in an atomic section is that the write reserves space on the ring buffer and then writes directly into it. After it writes, it commits the event. The time between reserve and commit must have preemption disabled. The trace marker write does not have any locking nor can it allocate due to the nature of it being a critical path. Unfortunately, converting __copy_from_user_inatomic() to copy_from_user_nofault() caused a regression in Android. Now all the writes from its applications trigger the fault that is rejected by the _nofault() version that wasn't rejected by the _inatomic() version. Instead of getting data, it now just gets a trace buffer filled with: tracing_mark_write: <faulted> To fix this, on opening of the trace_marker file, allocate per CPU buffers that can be used by the write call. Then when entering the write call, do the following: preempt_disable(); cpu = smp_processor_id(); buffer = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_buffers, cpu); do { cnt = nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu); migrate_disable(); preempt_enable(); ret = copy_from_user(buffer, ptr, size); preempt_disable(); migrate_enable(); } while (!ret && cnt != nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu)); if (!ret) ring_buffer_write(buffer); preempt_enable(); This works similarly to seqcount. As it must enabled preemption to do a copy_from_user() into a per CPU buffer, if it gets preempted, the buffer could be corrupted by another task. To handle this, read the number of context switches of the current CPU, disable migration, enable preemption, copy the data from user space, then immediately disable preemption again. If the number of context switches is the same, the buffer is still valid. Otherwise it must be assumed that the buffer may have been corrupted and it needs to try again. Now the trace_marker write can get the user data even if it has to fault it in, and still not grab any locks of its own. * tag 'trace-v6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space ring buffer: Propagate __rb_map_vma return value to caller tracing: Fix irqoff tracers on failure of acquiring calltime tracing: Fix wakeup tracers on failure of acquiring calltime tracing/osnoise: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user_nul
2025-10-08tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user spaceSteven Rostedt
It was reported that using __copy_from_user_inatomic() can actually schedule. Which is bad when preemption is disabled. Even though there's logic to check in_atomic() is set, but this is a nop when the kernel is configured with PREEMPT_NONE. This is due to page faulting and the code could schedule with preemption disabled. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250819105152.2766363-1-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com/ The solution was to change the __copy_from_user_inatomic() to copy_from_user_nofault(). But then it was reported that this caused a regression in Android. There's several applications writing into trace_marker() in Android, but now instead of showing the expected data, it is showing: tracing_mark_write: <faulted> After reverting the conversion to copy_from_user_nofault(), Android was able to get the data again. Writes to the trace_marker is a way to efficiently and quickly enter data into the Linux tracing buffer. It takes no locks and was designed to be as non-intrusive as possible. This means it cannot allocate memory, and must use pre-allocated data. A method that is actively being worked on to have faultable system call tracepoints read user space data is to allocate per CPU buffers, and use them in the callback. The method uses a technique similar to seqcount. That is something like this: preempt_disable(); cpu = smp_processor_id(); buffer = this_cpu_ptr(&pre_allocated_cpu_buffers, cpu); do { cnt = nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu); migrate_disable(); preempt_enable(); ret = copy_from_user(buffer, ptr, size); preempt_disable(); migrate_enable(); } while (!ret && cnt != nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu)); if (!ret) ring_buffer_write(buffer); preempt_enable(); It's a little more involved than that, but the above is the basic logic. The idea is to acquire the current CPU buffer, disable migration, and then enable preemption. At this moment, it can safely use copy_from_user(). After reading the data from user space, it disables preemption again. It then checks to see if there was any new scheduling on this CPU. If there was, it must assume that the buffer was corrupted by another task. If there wasn't, then the buffer is still valid as only tasks in preemptable context can write to this buffer and only those that are running on the CPU. By using this method, where trace_marker open allocates the per CPU buffers, trace_marker writes can access user space and even fault it in, without having to allocate or take any locks of its own. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Wattson CI <wattson-external@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251008124510.6dba541a@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 3d62ab32df065 ("tracing: Fix tracing_marker may trigger page fault during preempt_disable") Reported-by: Runping Lai <runpinglai@google.com> Tested-by: Runping Lai <runpinglai@google.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20251007003417.3470979-2-runpinglai@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-10-03Merge tag 'pull-fs_context' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull fs_context updates from Al Viro: "Change vfs_parse_fs_string() calling conventions Get rid of the length argument (almost all callers pass strlen() of the string argument there), add vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for the cases that do want separate length" * tag 'pull-fs_context' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: do_nfs4_mount(): switch to vfs_parse_fs_string() change the calling conventions for vfs_parse_fs_string()
2025-09-08tracing: Silence warning when chunk allocation fails in trace_pid_writePu Lehui
Syzkaller trigger a fault injection warning: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12326 at tracepoint_add_func+0xbfc/0xeb0 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12326 Comm: syz.6.10325 Tainted: G U 6.14.0-rc5-syzkaller #0 Tainted: [U]=USER Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine RIP: 0010:tracepoint_add_func+0xbfc/0xeb0 kernel/tracepoint.c:294 Code: 09 fe ff 90 0f 0b 90 0f b6 74 24 43 31 ff 41 bc ea ff ff ff RSP: 0018:ffffc9000414fb48 EFLAGS: 00010283 RAX: 00000000000012a1 RBX: ffffffff8e240ae0 RCX: ffffc90014b78000 RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: ffffffff81bbd78b RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffffffffef R13: 0000000000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffffff81c264f0 FS: 00007f27217f66c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000001b2e80dff8 CR3: 00000000268f8000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> tracepoint_probe_register_prio+0xc0/0x110 kernel/tracepoint.c:464 register_trace_prio_sched_switch include/trace/events/sched.h:222 [inline] register_pid_events kernel/trace/trace_events.c:2354 [inline] event_pid_write.isra.0+0x439/0x7a0 kernel/trace/trace_events.c:2425 vfs_write+0x24c/0x1150 fs/read_write.c:677 ksys_write+0x12b/0x250 fs/read_write.c:731 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f We can reproduce the warning by following the steps below: 1. echo 8 >> set_event_notrace_pid. Let tr->filtered_pids owns one pid and register sched_switch tracepoint. 2. echo ' ' >> set_event_pid, and perform fault injection during chunk allocation of trace_pid_list_alloc. Let pid_list with no pid and assign to tr->filtered_pids. 3. echo ' ' >> set_event_pid. Let pid_list is NULL and assign to tr->filtered_pids. 4. echo 9 >> set_event_pid, will trigger the double register sched_switch tracepoint warning. The reason is that syzkaller injects a fault into the chunk allocation in trace_pid_list_alloc, causing a failure in trace_pid_list_set, which may trigger double register of the same tracepoint. This only occurs when the system is about to crash, but to suppress this warning, let's add failure handling logic to trace_pid_list_set. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250908024658.2390398-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com Fixes: 8d6e90983ade ("tracing: Create a sparse bitmask for pid filtering") Reported-by: syzbot+161412ccaeff20ce4dde@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67cb890e.050a0220.d8275.022e.GAE@google.com Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui <pulehui@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-09-04change the calling conventions for vfs_parse_fs_string()Al Viro
Absolute majority of callers are passing the 4th argument equal to strlen() of the 3rd one. Drop the v_size argument, add vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for the cases that want independent length. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-02tracing: Fix tracing_marker may trigger page fault during preempt_disableLuo Gengkun
Both tracing_mark_write and tracing_mark_raw_write call __copy_from_user_inatomic during preempt_disable. But in some case, __copy_from_user_inatomic may trigger page fault, and will call schedule() subtly. And if a task is migrated to other cpu, the following warning will be trigger: if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !local_read(&cpu_buffer->committing))) An example can illustrate this issue: process flow CPU --------------------------------------------------------------------- tracing_mark_raw_write(): cpu:0 ... ring_buffer_lock_reserve(): cpu:0 ... cpu = raw_smp_processor_id() cpu:0 cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu] cpu:0 ... ... __copy_from_user_inatomic(): cpu:0 ... # page fault do_mem_abort(): cpu:0 ... # Call schedule schedule() cpu:0 ... # the task schedule to cpu1 __buffer_unlock_commit(): cpu:1 ... ring_buffer_unlock_commit(): cpu:1 ... cpu = raw_smp_processor_id() cpu:1 cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu] cpu:1 As shown above, the process will acquire cpuid twice and the return values are not the same. To fix this problem using copy_from_user_nofault instead of __copy_from_user_inatomic, as the former performs 'access_ok' before copying. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819105152.2766363-1-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com Fixes: 656c7f0d2d2b ("tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing") Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun@huaweicloud.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-08-22ftrace: Fix potential warning in trace_printk_seq during ftrace_dumpTengda Wu
When calling ftrace_dump_one() concurrently with reading trace_pipe, a WARN_ON_ONCE() in trace_printk_seq() can be triggered due to a race condition. The issue occurs because: CPU0 (ftrace_dump) CPU1 (reader) echo z > /proc/sysrq-trigger !trace_empty(&iter) trace_iterator_reset(&iter) <- len = size = 0 cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe trace_find_next_entry_inc(&iter) __find_next_entry ring_buffer_empty_cpu <- all empty return NULL trace_printk_seq(&iter.seq) WARN_ON_ONCE(s->seq.len >= s->seq.size) In the context between trace_empty() and trace_find_next_entry_inc() during ftrace_dump, the ring buffer data was consumed by other readers. This caused trace_find_next_entry_inc to return NULL, failing to populate `iter.seq`. At this point, due to the prior trace_iterator_reset, both `iter.seq.len` and `iter.seq.size` were set to 0. Since they are equal, the WARN_ON_ONCE condition is triggered. Move the trace_printk_seq() into the if block that checks to make sure the return value of trace_find_next_entry_inc() is non-NULL in ftrace_dump_one(), ensuring the 'iter.seq' is properly populated before subsequent operations. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250822033343.3000289-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com Fixes: d769041f8653 ("ring_buffer: implement new locking") Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-08-20tracing: Limit access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failedPu Lehui
When the length of the string written to set_ftrace_filter exceeds FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, the following KASAN alarm will be triggered: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in strsep+0x18c/0x1b0 Read of size 1 at addr ffff0000d00bd5ba by task ash/165 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 165 Comm: ash Not tainted 6.16.0-g6bcdbd62bd56-dirty Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Call trace: show_stack+0x34/0x50 (C) dump_stack_lvl+0xa0/0x158 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x88/0x398 print_report+0xb0/0x280 kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0 __asan_report_load1_noabort+0x20/0x30 strsep+0x18c/0x1b0 ftrace_process_regex.isra.0+0x100/0x2d8 ftrace_regex_release+0x484/0x618 __fput+0x364/0xa58 ____fput+0x28/0x40 task_work_run+0x154/0x278 do_notify_resume+0x1f0/0x220 el0_svc+0xec/0xf0 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8 el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0 The reason is that trace_get_user will fail when processing a string longer than FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, but not set the end of parser->buffer to 0. Then an OOB access will be triggered in ftrace_regex_release-> ftrace_process_regex->strsep->strpbrk. We can solve this problem by limiting access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failed. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250813040232.1344527-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com Fixes: 8c9af478c06b ("ftrace: Handle commands when closing set_ftrace_filter file") Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui <pulehui@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-08-03Merge tag 'trace-v6.17-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Remove unneeded goto out statements Over time, the logic was restructured but left a "goto out" where the out label simply did a "return ret;". Instead of jumping to this out label, simply return immediately and remove the out label. - Add guard(ring_buffer_nest) Some calls to the tracing ring buffer can happen when the ring buffer is already being written to at the same context (for example, a trace_printk() in between a ring_buffer_lock_reserve() and a ring_buffer_unlock_commit()). In order to not trigger the recursion detection, these functions use ring_buffer_nest_start() and ring_buffer_nest_end(). Create a guard() for these functions so that their use cases can be simplified and not need to use goto for the release. - Clean up the tracing code with guard() and __free() logic There were several locations that were prime candidates for using guard() and __free() helpers. Switch them over to use them. - Fix output of function argument traces for unsigned int values The function tracer with "func-args" option set will record up to 6 argument registers and then use BTF to format them for human consumption when the trace file is read. There are several arguments that are "unsigned long" and even "unsigned int" that are either and address or a mask. It is easier to understand if they were printed using hexadecimal instead of decimal. The old method just printed all non-pointer values as signed integers, which made it even worse for unsigned integers. For instance, instead of: __local_bh_disable_ip(ip=-2127311112, cnt=256) <-handle_softirqs show: __local_bh_disable_ip(ip=0xffffffff8133cef8, cnt=0x100) <-handle_softirqs" * tag 'trace-v6.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: tracing: Have unsigned int function args displayed as hexadecimal ring-buffer: Convert ring_buffer_write() to use guard(preempt_notrace) tracing: Use __free(kfree) in trace.c to remove gotos tracing: Add guard() around locks and mutexes in trace.c tracing: Add guard(ring_buffer_nest) tracing: Remove unneeded goto out logic
2025-08-03Merge tag 'modules-6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux Pull module updates from Daniel Gomez: "This is a small set of changes for modules, primarily to extend module users to use the module data structures in combination with the already no-op stub module functions, even when support for modules is disabled in the kernel configuration. This change follows the kernel's coding style for conditional compilation and allows kunit code to drop all CONFIG_MODULES ifdefs, which is also part of the changes. This should allow others part of the kernel to do the same cleanup. The remaining changes include a fix for module name length handling which could potentially lead to the removal of an incorrect module, and various cleanups" * tag 'modules-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: module: Rename MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN to __MODULE_NAME_LEN tracing: Replace MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN with MODULE_NAME_LEN module: Restore the moduleparam prefix length check module: Remove unnecessary +1 from last_unloaded_module::name size module: Prevent silent truncation of module name in delete_module(2) kunit: test: Drop CONFIG_MODULE ifdeffery module: make structure definitions always visible module: move 'struct module_use' to internal.h
2025-08-01tracing: Use __free(kfree) in trace.c to remove gotosSteven Rostedt
There's a couple of locations that have goto out in trace.c for the only purpose of freeing a variable that was allocated. These can be replaced with __free(kfree). Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250801203858.040892777@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-08-01tracing: Add guard() around locks and mutexes in trace.cSteven Rostedt
There's several locations in trace.c that can be simplified by using guards around raw_spin_lock_irqsave, mutexes and preempt disabling. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250801203857.879085376@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-08-01tracing: Add guard(ring_buffer_nest)Steven Rostedt
Some calls to the tracing ring buffer can happen when the ring buffer is already being written to by the same context (for example, a trace_printk() in between a ring_buffer_lock_reserve() and a ring_buffer_unlock_commit()). In order to not trigger the recursion detection, these functions use ring_buffer_nest_start() and ring_buffer_nest_end(). Create a guard() for these functions so that their use cases can be simplified and not need to use goto for the release. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250801203857.710501021@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-08-01tracing: Remove unneeded goto out logicSteven Rostedt
Several places in the trace.c file there's a goto out where the out is simply a return. There's no reason to jump to the out label if it's not doing any more logic but simply returning from the function. Replace the goto outs with a return and remove the out labels. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250801203857.538726745@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-08-01Merge tag 'trace-v6.17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Deprecate auto-mounting tracefs to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing When tracefs was first introduced back in 2014, the directory /sys/kernel/tracing was added and is the designated location to mount tracefs. To keep backward compatibility, tracefs was auto-mounted in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing as well. All distros now mount tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing. Having it seen in two different locations has lead to various issues and inconsistencies. The VFS folks have to also maintain debugfs_create_automount() for this single user. It's been over 10 years. Tooling and scripts should start replacing the debugfs location with the tracefs one. The reason tracefs was created in the first place was to allow access to the tracing facilities without the need to configure debugfs into the kernel. Using tracefs should now be more robust. A new config is created: CONFIG_TRACEFS_AUTOMOUNT_DEPRECATED which is default y, so that the kernel is still built with the automount. This config allows those that want to remove the automount from debugfs to do so. When tracefs is accessed from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing, the following printk is triggerd: pr_warn("NOTICE: Automounting of tracing to debugfs is deprecated and will be removed in 2030\n"); This gives users another 5 years to fix their scripts. - Use queue_rcu_work() instead of call_rcu() for freeing event filters The number of filters to be free can be many depending on the number of events within an event system. Freeing them from softirq context can potentially cause undesired latency. Use the RCU workqueue to free them instead. - Remove pointless memory barriers in latency code Memory barriers were added to some of the latency code a long time ago with the idea of "making them visible", but that's not what memory barriers are for. They are to synchronize access between different variables. There was no synchronization here making them pointless. - Remove "__attribute__()" from the type field of event format When LLVM is used to compile the kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y and PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG=y, some of the format fields get expanded with the following: field:const char * filename; offset:24; size:8; signed:0; Turns into: field:const char __attribute__((btf_type_tag("user"))) * filename; offset:24; size:8; signed:0; This confuses parsers. Add code to strip these tags from the strings. - Add eprobe config option CONFIG_EPROBE_EVENTS Eprobes were added back in 5.15 but were only enabled when another probe was enabled (kprobe, fprobe, uprobe, etc). The eprobes had no config option of their own. Add one as they should be a separate entity. It's default y to keep with the old kernels but still has dependencies on TRACING and HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API. - Add eprobe documentation When eprobes were added back in 5.15 no documentation was added to describe them. This needs to be rectified. - Replace open coded cpumask_next_wrap() in move_to_next_cpu() - Have preemptirq_delay_run() use off-stack CPU mask - Remove obsolete comment about pelt_cfs event DECLARE_TRACE() appends "_tp" to trace events now, but the comment above pelt_cfs still mentioned appending it manually. - Remove EVENT_FILE_FL_SOFT_MODE flag The SOFT_MODE flag was required when the soft enabling and disabling of trace events was first introduced. But there was a bug with this approach as it only worked for a single instance. When multiple users required soft disabling and disabling the code was changed to have a ref count. The SOFT_MODE flag is now set iff the ref count is non zero. This is redundant and just reading the ref count is good enough. - Fix typo in comment * tag 'trace-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: Documentation: tracing: Add documentation about eprobes tracing: Have eprobes have their own config option tracing: Remove "__attribute__()" from the type field of event format tracing: Deprecate auto-mounting tracefs in debugfs tracing: Fix comment in trace_module_remove_events() tracing: Remove EVENT_FILE_FL_SOFT_MODE flag tracing: Remove pointless memory barriers tracing/sched: Remove obsolete comment on suffixes kernel: trace: preemptirq_delay_test: use offstack cpu mask tracing: Use queue_rcu_work() to free filters tracing: Replace opencoded cpumask_next_wrap() in move_to_next_cpu()
2025-07-31tracing: Replace MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN with MODULE_NAME_LENPetr Pavlu
Use the MODULE_NAME_LEN definition in module_exists() to obtain the maximum size of a module name, instead of using MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN. The values are the same but MODULE_NAME_LEN is more appropriate in this context. MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN was added in commit 730b69d22525 ("module: check kernel param length at compile time, not runtime") only to break a circular dependency between module.h and moduleparam.h, and should mostly be limited to use in moduleparam.h. Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250630143535.267745-5-petr.pavlu@suse.com Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
2025-07-29tracing: Remove "__attribute__()" from the type field of event formatMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
With CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y and PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG=y, `__user` is converted to `__attribute__((btf_type_tag("user")))`. In this case, some syscall events have it for __user data, like below; /sys/kernel/tracing # cat events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/format name: sys_enter_openat ID: 720 format: field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1; field:int __syscall_nr; offset:8; size:4; signed:1; field:int dfd; offset:16; size:8; signed:0; field:const char __attribute__((btf_type_tag("user"))) * filename; offset:24; size:8; signed:0; field:int flags; offset:32; size:8; signed:0; field:umode_t mode; offset:40; size:8; signed:0; Then the trace event filter fails to set the string acceptable flag (FILTER_PTR_STRING) to the field and rejects setting string filter; # echo 'filename.ustring ~ "*ftracetest-dir.wbx24v*"' \ >> events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/filter sh: write error: Invalid argument # cat error_log [ 723.743637] event filter parse error: error: Expecting numeric field Command: filename.ustring ~ "*ftracetest-dir.wbx24v*" Since this __attribute__ makes format parsing complicated and not needed, remove the __attribute__(.*) from the type string. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/175376583493.1688759.12333973498014733551.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-07-23tracing: Deprecate auto-mounting tracefs in debugfsSteven Rostedt
In January 2015, tracefs was created to allow access to the tracing infrastructure without needing to compile in debugfs. When tracefs is configured, the directory /sys/kernel/tracing will exist and tooling is expected to use that path to access the tracing infrastructure. To allow backward compatibility, when debugfs is mounted, it would automount tracefs in its "tracing" directory so that tooling that had hard coded /sys/kernel/debug/tracing would still work. It has been over 10 years since the new interface was introduced, and all tooling should now be using it. Start the process of deprecating the old path so that it doesn't need to be maintained anymore. A new config is added to allow distributions to disable automounting of tracefs on debugfs. If /sys/kernel/debug/tracing is accessed, a pr_warn() will trigger stating: "NOTICE: Automounting of tracing to debugfs is deprecated and will be removed in 2030" Expect to remove this feature in 5 years (2030). Cc: <linux-trace-users@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250722170806.40c068c6@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-07-22tracing: Remove pointless memory barriersNam Cao
Memory barriers are useful to ensure memory accesses from one CPU appear in the original order as seen by other CPUs. Some smp_rmb() and smp_wmb() are used, but they are not ordering multiple memory accesses. Remove them. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250626151940.1756398-1-namcao@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-07-22ring-buffer: Remove ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync()Steven Rostedt
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 <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630180440.3eabb514@batman.local.home Reported-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Fixes: 1039221cc278 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator") Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-05-30Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.16' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt: - Allow the persistent ring buffer to be memory mapped In the last merge window there was issues with the implementation of mapping the persistent ring buffer because it was assumed that the persistent memory was just physical memory without being part of the kernel virtual address space. But this was incorrect and the persistent ring buffer can be mapped the same way as the allocated ring buffer is mapped. The metadata for the persistent ring buffer is different than the normal ring buffer and the organization of mapping it to user space is a little different. Make the updates needed to the meta data to allow the persistent ring buffer to be mapped to user space. - Fix cpus_read_lock() with buffer->mutex and cpu_buffer->mapping_lock Mapping the ring buffer to user space uses the cpu_buffer->mapping_lock. The buffer->mutex can be taken when the mapping_lock is held, giving the locking order of: cpu_buffer->mapping_lock -->> buffer->mutex. But there also exists the ordering: buffer->mutex -->> cpus_read_lock() mm->mmap_lock -->> cpu_buffer->mapping_lock cpus_read_lock() -->> mm->mmap_lock causing a circular chain of: cpu_buffer->mapping_lock -> buffer->mutex -->> cpus_read_lock() -->> mm->mmap_lock -->> cpu_buffer->mapping_lock By moving the cpus_read_lock() outside the buffer->mutex where: cpus_read_lock() -->> buffer->mutex, breaks the deadlock chain. - Do not trigger WARN_ON() for commit overrun When the ring buffer is user space mapped and there's a "commit overrun" (where an interrupt preempted an event, and then added so many events it filled the buffer having to drop events when it hit the preempted event) a WARN_ON() was triggered if this was read via a memory mapped buffer. This is due to "missed events" being non zero when the reader page ended up with the commit page. The idea was, if the writer is on the reader page, there's only one page that has been written to and there should be no missed events. But if a commit overrun is done where the writer is off the commit page and looped around to the commit page causing missed events, it is possible that the reader page is the commit page with missed events. Instead of triggering a WARN_ON() when the reader page is the commit page with missed events, trigger it when the reader page is the tail_page with missed events. That's because the writer is always on the tail_page if an event was interrupted (which holds the commit event) and continues off the commit page. - Reset the persistent buffer if it is fully consumed On boot up, if the user fully consumes the last boot buffer of the persistent buffer, if it reboots without enabling it, there will still be events in the buffer which can cause confusion. Instead, reset the buffer when it is fully consumed, so that the data is not read again. - Clean up some goto out jumps There's a few cases that the code jumps to the "out:" label that simply returns a value. There used to be more work done at those labels but now that they simply return a value use a return instead of jumping to a label. - Use guard() to simplify some of the code Add guard() around some locking instead of jumping to a label to do the unlocking. - Use free() to simplify some of the code Use free(kfree) on variables that will get freed on error and use return_ptr() to return the variable when its not freed. There's one instance where free(kfree) simplifies the code on a temp variable that was allocated just for the function use. * tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Simplify functions with __free(kfree) to free allocations ring-buffer: Make ring_buffer_{un}map() simpler with guard(mutex) ring-buffer: Simplify ring_buffer_read_page() with guard() ring-buffer: Simplify reset_disabled_cpu_buffer() with use of guard() ring-buffer: Remove jump to out label in ring_buffer_swap_cpu() ring-buffer: Removed unnecessary if() goto out where out is the next line tracing: Reset last-boot buffers when reading out all cpu buffers ring-buffer: Allow reserve_mem persistent ring buffers to be mmapped ring-buffer: Do not trigger WARN_ON() due to a commit_overrun ring-buffer: Move cpus_read_lock() outside of buffer->mutex
2025-05-30Merge tag 'pull-automount' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull automount updates from Al Viro: "Automount wart removal A bunch of odd boilerplate gone from instances - the reason for those was the need to protect the yet-to-be-attched mount from mark_mounts_for_expiry() deciding to take it out. But that's easy to detect and take care of in mark_mounts_for_expiry() itself; no need to have every instance simulate mount being busy by grabbing an extra reference to it, with finish_automount() undoing that once it attaches that mount. Should've done it that way from the very beginning... This is a flagday change, thankfully there are very few instances. vfs_submount() is gone - its sole remaining user (trace_automount) had been switched to saner primitives" * tag 'pull-automount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: kill vfs_submount() saner calling conventions for ->d_automount()