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<title>tracing: Fix comment in tracing_buffers_splice_read()</title>
<updated>2026-09-04T20:19:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2026-09-04T18:49:02+00:00</published>
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The comment about returning an error if the read fails on the first
iteration is slightly incorrect. It makes it sound like the only reason it
could fail on a later iteration is if the subbuf order changed. That is
incorrect, it could also fail if the length passed in was not a multiple
of the subbuf size. Fix the comment.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260904143527.40e73d36@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904144902.506862a1@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: dae8dda341d2 ("tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The comment about returning an error if the read fails on the first
iteration is slightly incorrect. It makes it sound like the only reason it
could fail on a later iteration is if the subbuf order changed. That is
incorrect, it could also fail if the length passed in was not a multiple
of the subbuf size. Fix the comment.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260904143527.40e73d36@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904144902.506862a1@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: dae8dda341d2 ("tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers</title>
<updated>2026-09-04T20:19:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Donnefort</name>
<email>vdonnefort@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-04T16:44:48+00:00</published>
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Concurrent subbuffer resizes may crash trace_pipe_raw readers or leak
uninitialized memory to userspace due to stale size values.

Modify ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() to handle the resizing of an
existing buffer_data_read_page if necessary and add a new
ring_buffer_read_page_size(). This new function enables ring-buffer
buffer_data_read_page users to not call the racy
ring_buffer_subbuf_size_get(). This makes the spare_size member of
ftrace_buffer_info redundant.

Finally, handle buffer_data_read_page/reader_page order discrepancy in
ring_buffer_read_page(). On a mismatch simply copy manually the data to
the buffer_data_read_page.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260817140812.2C7D41F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904164450.1345852-3-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: bce761d75745 ("ring-buffer: Read and write to ring buffers with custom sub buffer size")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Concurrent subbuffer resizes may crash trace_pipe_raw readers or leak
uninitialized memory to userspace due to stale size values.

Modify ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() to handle the resizing of an
existing buffer_data_read_page if necessary and add a new
ring_buffer_read_page_size(). This new function enables ring-buffer
buffer_data_read_page users to not call the racy
ring_buffer_subbuf_size_get(). This makes the spare_size member of
ftrace_buffer_info redundant.

Finally, handle buffer_data_read_page/reader_page order discrepancy in
ring_buffer_read_page(). On a mismatch simply copy manually the data to
the buffer_data_read_page.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260817140812.2C7D41F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904164450.1345852-3-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: bce761d75745 ("ring-buffer: Read and write to ring buffers with custom sub buffer size")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix to avoid creating trace instances with duplicate names</title>
<updated>2026-09-04T15:44:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-03T23:25:04+00:00</published>
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Since commit e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped
memory for trace boot instance") changed trace_array_get_by_name() to
trace_array_create_systems(), enable_instances() does not reuse the
same name instance. Therefore, if an administrator mistakenly specifies
multiple `trace_instance=` options with duplicate names, all are
created but only the first is accessible via tracefs.

Check whether an instance with the same name already exists before
creating a new one, and reject duplicates with a warning.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178847790399.283263.5313150997200138426.stgit@devnote2
Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Since commit e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped
memory for trace boot instance") changed trace_array_get_by_name() to
trace_array_create_systems(), enable_instances() does not reuse the
same name instance. Therefore, if an administrator mistakenly specifies
multiple `trace_instance=` options with duplicate names, all are
created but only the first is accessible via tracefs.

Check whether an instance with the same name already exists before
creating a new one, and reject duplicates with a warning.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178847790399.283263.5313150997200138426.stgit@devnote2
Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Take trace_array reference when opening options file</title>
<updated>2026-09-02T19:03:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-02T16:19:18+00:00</published>
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The options files do not take the trace_array reference for the options
they represent. This could cause a use-after-free kernel crash if one of
these files is opened by one task and another task removes the instance
that the option is for. Because it doesn't take a reference upon opening,
it will not stop the removal which will free the options descriptor that
is being used.

As the options are somewhat dynamic in their creation at boot up, each
file represents a flag in the trace_array. The trace_array has an array of
indexes to represent each of these flags that is stored in the
trace_flags_index array. The address of the index array element is used to
pass to the inode-&gt;i_private pointer. Then that element is read which
holds the index (which represents the flag) and then the index is used to
calculate the trace_array descriptor from its trace_flags_index array.

One issue is that the index element can not be referenced until the
trace_array's reference is taken. To handle this, create a new helper
function called: trace_array_options_get() that will iterate all the
existing trace_arrays in the ftrace_trace_arrays list (under the
trace_types_lock), and compare the passed in address of the index element
with the entire array of the trace_array's trace_flags_index array.
If it matches, then up the corresponding trace_array's reference and
return.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260902121918.5a9e9d1b@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 577b785f55168 ("tracing: add tracer dependent options to options directory")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20260828135858.2AC501F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The options files do not take the trace_array reference for the options
they represent. This could cause a use-after-free kernel crash if one of
these files is opened by one task and another task removes the instance
that the option is for. Because it doesn't take a reference upon opening,
it will not stop the removal which will free the options descriptor that
is being used.

As the options are somewhat dynamic in their creation at boot up, each
file represents a flag in the trace_array. The trace_array has an array of
indexes to represent each of these flags that is stored in the
trace_flags_index array. The address of the index array element is used to
pass to the inode-&gt;i_private pointer. Then that element is read which
holds the index (which represents the flag) and then the index is used to
calculate the trace_array descriptor from its trace_flags_index array.

One issue is that the index element can not be referenced until the
trace_array's reference is taken. To handle this, create a new helper
function called: trace_array_options_get() that will iterate all the
existing trace_arrays in the ftrace_trace_arrays list (under the
trace_types_lock), and compare the passed in address of the index element
with the entire array of the trace_array's trace_flags_index array.
If it matches, then up the corresponding trace_array's reference and
return.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260902121918.5a9e9d1b@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 577b785f55168 ("tracing: add tracer dependent options to options directory")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20260828135858.2AC501F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2026-08-30T16:22:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-30T16:22:00+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Fix error output of boot instance creation failure

   Currently if a boot instance creation fails, instead of printing out
   the name of the instance that failed, it prints "(null)". That is
   because it prints "cur_str" that had already been processed by
   strsep(). Print the saved name instead.

   While at it, print the error code of the failure.

 - Fix use-after-free for same named historgrams

   Histograms can be named so that they can be used in multiple events.
   But if the named histogram has a variable attached, the second event
   that uses the named histogram which duplicates it and needs to free
   the original after duplication leaves the old variable in place and
   still visible. If another histogram uses than variable, it will use
   the stale one which will try to reference the freed duplicate
   histogram and crash the kernel.

   Free the duplicate variables along with the duplicated histogram
   data.

 - Check return value of kthread_run() in event self test

   The events self tests uses a kthread for testing but does not check
   if it succeeded in creating a kthread. If the kthread creation were
   to fail, the code will still try to call kthread_stop() on the error
   returned.

 - Fix race between reading trace_pipe and updating subbuffer size

   If a user is reading the trace_pipe file at the same time they update
   the ring buffer sub-buffer size, can cause the trace_pipe read to
   read stale data. Add trace_access_lock() around updating the ring
   buffer sub-buffer size.

 - Fix eventfs_inode on failure path in creation of the events directory

   In the creation of the "events" directory, if after allocating the
   eventfs_inode a failure is detected, it calls cleanup_ei() which
   calls free_ei(). The free_ei() will test if eventfs_inode being freed
   has no children. It is a bug if it does. But on the failure case of
   the creation of the "events" directory, the children lists have not
   yet been initialized and the free will trigger a warning because
   list_empty() on an uninitialized list returns false.

   Move the initialization into init_ei() where it makes more sense and
   makes sure that a created eventfs_inode has its lists initialized
   upon creation.

 - Check return value of kthread_run() in ftrace direct sample code

   The sample code that shows how to use the ftrace direct calls does
   not test the return of kthread_run() to see if it succeeds. Return a
   failure if the kthread_run() doesn't succeed.

 - Clear user events state on fork in case of alloc failure

   On fork, the child gets a pointer to the parent's user events state.
   It makes a copy of it then updates the child's pointer to it. But if
   the allocation fails, the duplication function leaves the child with
   a pointer to its parent's descriptor. When the child cleans up its
   data, it will free the parent's descriptor while the parent is still
   using it.

   In the duplication function, set the child's user_event_mm to NULL
   before testing if the allocation succeeded, and when it exits it will
   not free the parent's descriptor.

 - Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap

   simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page() starts with retry set to 8 and
   post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final
   attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a
   failed replacement leaves it at -1.

   But the check for success expects the retry value to be non-zero and
   exits with an error on zero. This is the opposite result. Fix it.

 - Fail nicely when the remote swap_reader_page() returns an error

   Currently, if the swap_reader_page() of a remote buffer fails, it
   triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() and continues normally. Instead, have it
   exit with an error and a pr_warn() print instead of a full WARNING.

* tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Stop remote reader update when page swap fails
  tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap
  tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication
  samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-multi-modify
  samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-modify
  eventfs: Initialize ei-&gt;children and ei-&gt;list in init_ei()
  tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change
  tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()
  tracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers
  tracing: Fix logged instance name on creation failure
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Fix error output of boot instance creation failure

   Currently if a boot instance creation fails, instead of printing out
   the name of the instance that failed, it prints "(null)". That is
   because it prints "cur_str" that had already been processed by
   strsep(). Print the saved name instead.

   While at it, print the error code of the failure.

 - Fix use-after-free for same named historgrams

   Histograms can be named so that they can be used in multiple events.
   But if the named histogram has a variable attached, the second event
   that uses the named histogram which duplicates it and needs to free
   the original after duplication leaves the old variable in place and
   still visible. If another histogram uses than variable, it will use
   the stale one which will try to reference the freed duplicate
   histogram and crash the kernel.

   Free the duplicate variables along with the duplicated histogram
   data.

 - Check return value of kthread_run() in event self test

   The events self tests uses a kthread for testing but does not check
   if it succeeded in creating a kthread. If the kthread creation were
   to fail, the code will still try to call kthread_stop() on the error
   returned.

 - Fix race between reading trace_pipe and updating subbuffer size

   If a user is reading the trace_pipe file at the same time they update
   the ring buffer sub-buffer size, can cause the trace_pipe read to
   read stale data. Add trace_access_lock() around updating the ring
   buffer sub-buffer size.

 - Fix eventfs_inode on failure path in creation of the events directory

   In the creation of the "events" directory, if after allocating the
   eventfs_inode a failure is detected, it calls cleanup_ei() which
   calls free_ei(). The free_ei() will test if eventfs_inode being freed
   has no children. It is a bug if it does. But on the failure case of
   the creation of the "events" directory, the children lists have not
   yet been initialized and the free will trigger a warning because
   list_empty() on an uninitialized list returns false.

   Move the initialization into init_ei() where it makes more sense and
   makes sure that a created eventfs_inode has its lists initialized
   upon creation.

 - Check return value of kthread_run() in ftrace direct sample code

   The sample code that shows how to use the ftrace direct calls does
   not test the return of kthread_run() to see if it succeeds. Return a
   failure if the kthread_run() doesn't succeed.

 - Clear user events state on fork in case of alloc failure

   On fork, the child gets a pointer to the parent's user events state.
   It makes a copy of it then updates the child's pointer to it. But if
   the allocation fails, the duplication function leaves the child with
   a pointer to its parent's descriptor. When the child cleans up its
   data, it will free the parent's descriptor while the parent is still
   using it.

   In the duplication function, set the child's user_event_mm to NULL
   before testing if the allocation succeeded, and when it exits it will
   not free the parent's descriptor.

 - Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap

   simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page() starts with retry set to 8 and
   post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final
   attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a
   failed replacement leaves it at -1.

   But the check for success expects the retry value to be non-zero and
   exits with an error on zero. This is the opposite result. Fix it.

 - Fail nicely when the remote swap_reader_page() returns an error

   Currently, if the swap_reader_page() of a remote buffer fails, it
   triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() and continues normally. Instead, have it
   exit with an error and a pr_warn() print instead of a full WARNING.

* tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Stop remote reader update when page swap fails
  tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap
  tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication
  samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-multi-modify
  samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-modify
  eventfs: Initialize ei-&gt;children and ei-&gt;list in init_ei()
  tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change
  tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()
  tracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers
  tracing: Fix logged instance name on creation failure
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change</title>
<updated>2026-08-22T21:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepanshu Kartikey</name>
<email>kartikey406@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-17T14:06:55+00:00</published>
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Writing to buffer_subbuf_size_kb calls ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(),
which frees every sub-buffer of the ring buffer, including the reader
page, and replaces them with newly allocated ones.

Readers of trace_pipe hold pointers into those pages. ring_buffer_peek()
looks up an event under cpu_buffer-&gt;reader_lock but returns the event
pointer after dropping the lock, and peek_next_entry() then calls
ring_buffer_event_length() and ring_buffer_event_data() on it. If the
sub-buffer order is changed in that window, the reader dereferences
freed memory:

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ring_buffer_peek+0x3e0/0x430
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff88802a4cf010 by task syz-executor989/6002

  Freed by:
   free_buffer_page kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:398 [inline]
   ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set+0x1325/0x18e0 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:7444
   buffer_subbuf_size_write+0x182/0x280 kernel/trace/trace.c:8221

Take trace_access_lock(RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) around the order change.
This is the lock trace_pipe readers already hold across their entire
peek-and-print loop, so the swap can no longer race with a reader that
is dereferencing a peeked event.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260817140655.5694-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
Fixes: f9b94daa542a ("ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page")
Reported-by: syzbot+685955db58555575fdd2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=685955db58555575fdd2
Tested-by: syzbot+685955db58555575fdd2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan &lt;include@grrlz.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey &lt;kartikey406@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Writing to buffer_subbuf_size_kb calls ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(),
which frees every sub-buffer of the ring buffer, including the reader
page, and replaces them with newly allocated ones.

Readers of trace_pipe hold pointers into those pages. ring_buffer_peek()
looks up an event under cpu_buffer-&gt;reader_lock but returns the event
pointer after dropping the lock, and peek_next_entry() then calls
ring_buffer_event_length() and ring_buffer_event_data() on it. If the
sub-buffer order is changed in that window, the reader dereferences
freed memory:

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ring_buffer_peek+0x3e0/0x430
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff88802a4cf010 by task syz-executor989/6002

  Freed by:
   free_buffer_page kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:398 [inline]
   ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set+0x1325/0x18e0 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:7444
   buffer_subbuf_size_write+0x182/0x280 kernel/trace/trace.c:8221

Take trace_access_lock(RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) around the order change.
This is the lock trace_pipe readers already hold across their entire
peek-and-print loop, so the swap can no longer race with a reader that
is dereferencing a peeked event.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260817140655.5694-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
Fixes: f9b94daa542a ("ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page")
Reported-by: syzbot+685955db58555575fdd2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=685955db58555575fdd2
Tested-by: syzbot+685955db58555575fdd2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan &lt;include@grrlz.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey &lt;kartikey406@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix logged instance name on creation failure</title>
<updated>2026-08-22T14:41:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Donnefort</name>
<email>vdonnefort@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-07T08:54:23+00:00</published>
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When boot instance creation fails, the kernel incorrectly logs "(null)"
as the instance name because strsep() consumes curr_str entirely during
parsing.

Print the properly parsed name variable instead. And while at it log
the error code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260807085423.4175161-1-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: cb1f98c5e574 ("tracing: Add creation of instances at boot command line")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When boot instance creation fails, the kernel incorrectly logs "(null)"
as the instance name because strsep() consumes curr_str entirely during
parsing.

Print the properly parsed name variable instead. And while at it log
the error code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260807085423.4175161-1-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: cb1f98c5e574 ("tracing: Add creation of instances at boot command line")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vdonnefort@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'probes-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2026-08-20T22:11:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-20T22:11:52+00:00</published>
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Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
 "BTF typecasting and variable fetch enhancements:

   - Typecast support across probe events: Extended BTF typecasting
     syntax (e.g., (STRUCT)PARAM-&gt;MEMBER) to kprobes, uprobes, and
     fprobes on function entry and return

   - Nested typecasts: Added support for chaining and nesting typecasts
     up to 3 levels, including casting registers and stack variables

   - Field specifier option: Added (STRUCT,FIELD) syntax to emulate
     container_of(), allowing retrieval of parent structures from member
     pointers

   - $current variable support: Introduced $current special variable to
     access the running task_struct via BTF dereferencing

   - Per-CPU variable access: Added this_cpu_read() and this_cpu_ptr()
     fetcharg methods to trace CPU-local data safely

   - Fetcharg bytecode dumper: Added CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS_DUMP_FETCHARG
     to dump the compiled fetcharg bytecode instructions as comments in
     dynamic_events

   - Extended symbol name handling: Removed the MAX_COMMON_HEAD_LEN
     limit and extended MAX_ARGSTR_LEN to 256 bytes, enabling probing of
     long symbols, mangled Rust symbols and complex BTF expressions

   - eprobe variable syntax: Allowed eprobes to reference event fields
     directly without requiring a '$' prefix

   - Cleanup unused parameters, redundant codes, duplicate macros and
     pointer arithmetic

   - Use a ternary operator for simplifying fetch_type_from_btf_type()

  Expanded boot time dynamic probe support:

   - Add boot-time tracing configuration support for event probes
     (eprobes), function probes (fprobes), and tracepoint probes
     (tprobes)

   - Allow comment lines ('#') in dynamic_events file

  Optimization, robustness, and cleanups:

   - Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing graph and ftrace helpers

   - Remove __packed attribute from struct __fprobe_header to avoid
     unaligned memory access penalties on RISC architectures

   - Remove redundant memset() calls in perf event probe handlers

   - Replace legacy __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files

  Selftests &amp; refactoring:

   - Refactor parse_probe_arg() and parse_probe_vars(), and eliminate
     recursion in probe argument parsing to protect kernel stack depth

   - Add selftests for BTF typecasts and module probing without module
     prefixes

   - Force LC_ALL=C in ftracetest to prevent test failures on localized
     systems

   - Refactor btf_type_skip_modifiers() to remove ignored id parameter

   - Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically

   - Fix typo in fprobe docs, and trace_fprobe function name

   - Rename FETCH_OP_DATA to FETCH_OP_IMMSTR

   - Make file offset error message probe-agnostic"

* tag 'probes-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (37 commits)
  fprobe: Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing existing helpers
  tracing/boot: Add support for eprobe, fprobe, and tprobe events
  selftests/ftrace: Force C locale in ftracetest
  tracing/probes: Treating longer symbol name on event comparation
  docs: trace: fprobe: fix 'thos' spelling
  tracing/probes: Fix extra whitespace in trace_probe_kernel.h
  tracing/kprobe: Remove redundant memset in kprobe_perf_func()
  tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant memset in fentry_perf_func()
  tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant snprintf in trace_fprobe_match_command_head()
  tracing/probes: Simplify BTF_KIND_PTR case in fetch_type_from_btf_type()
  tracing/probes: Cleanup pointer arithmetic in store_trace_entry_data()
  tracing/probes: Remove unused parameter from parse_probe_var_retval()
  tracing/probes: Remove redundant bounds check in trace_probe_compare_arg_type()
  tracing/probes: Remove redundant boolean conversion in trace_probe_has_single_file()
  tracing/probes: Remove duplicate MAX_ARRAY_LEN macro definition
  selftests/ftrace: Add test case for a symbol in a module without module name
  tracing/probes: Eliminate recursion in parse_probe_arg()
  tracing/probes: Extend max length of argument string
  tracing/probes: Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically
  tracing/probes: Refactor parse_probe_arg()
  ...
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Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
 "BTF typecasting and variable fetch enhancements:

   - Typecast support across probe events: Extended BTF typecasting
     syntax (e.g., (STRUCT)PARAM-&gt;MEMBER) to kprobes, uprobes, and
     fprobes on function entry and return

   - Nested typecasts: Added support for chaining and nesting typecasts
     up to 3 levels, including casting registers and stack variables

   - Field specifier option: Added (STRUCT,FIELD) syntax to emulate
     container_of(), allowing retrieval of parent structures from member
     pointers

   - $current variable support: Introduced $current special variable to
     access the running task_struct via BTF dereferencing

   - Per-CPU variable access: Added this_cpu_read() and this_cpu_ptr()
     fetcharg methods to trace CPU-local data safely

   - Fetcharg bytecode dumper: Added CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS_DUMP_FETCHARG
     to dump the compiled fetcharg bytecode instructions as comments in
     dynamic_events

   - Extended symbol name handling: Removed the MAX_COMMON_HEAD_LEN
     limit and extended MAX_ARGSTR_LEN to 256 bytes, enabling probing of
     long symbols, mangled Rust symbols and complex BTF expressions

   - eprobe variable syntax: Allowed eprobes to reference event fields
     directly without requiring a '$' prefix

   - Cleanup unused parameters, redundant codes, duplicate macros and
     pointer arithmetic

   - Use a ternary operator for simplifying fetch_type_from_btf_type()

  Expanded boot time dynamic probe support:

   - Add boot-time tracing configuration support for event probes
     (eprobes), function probes (fprobes), and tracepoint probes
     (tprobes)

   - Allow comment lines ('#') in dynamic_events file

  Optimization, robustness, and cleanups:

   - Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing graph and ftrace helpers

   - Remove __packed attribute from struct __fprobe_header to avoid
     unaligned memory access penalties on RISC architectures

   - Remove redundant memset() calls in perf event probe handlers

   - Replace legacy __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files

  Selftests &amp; refactoring:

   - Refactor parse_probe_arg() and parse_probe_vars(), and eliminate
     recursion in probe argument parsing to protect kernel stack depth

   - Add selftests for BTF typecasts and module probing without module
     prefixes

   - Force LC_ALL=C in ftracetest to prevent test failures on localized
     systems

   - Refactor btf_type_skip_modifiers() to remove ignored id parameter

   - Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically

   - Fix typo in fprobe docs, and trace_fprobe function name

   - Rename FETCH_OP_DATA to FETCH_OP_IMMSTR

   - Make file offset error message probe-agnostic"

* tag 'probes-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (37 commits)
  fprobe: Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing existing helpers
  tracing/boot: Add support for eprobe, fprobe, and tprobe events
  selftests/ftrace: Force C locale in ftracetest
  tracing/probes: Treating longer symbol name on event comparation
  docs: trace: fprobe: fix 'thos' spelling
  tracing/probes: Fix extra whitespace in trace_probe_kernel.h
  tracing/kprobe: Remove redundant memset in kprobe_perf_func()
  tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant memset in fentry_perf_func()
  tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant snprintf in trace_fprobe_match_command_head()
  tracing/probes: Simplify BTF_KIND_PTR case in fetch_type_from_btf_type()
  tracing/probes: Cleanup pointer arithmetic in store_trace_entry_data()
  tracing/probes: Remove unused parameter from parse_probe_var_retval()
  tracing/probes: Remove redundant bounds check in trace_probe_compare_arg_type()
  tracing/probes: Remove redundant boolean conversion in trace_probe_has_single_file()
  tracing/probes: Remove duplicate MAX_ARRAY_LEN macro definition
  selftests/ftrace: Add test case for a symbol in a module without module name
  tracing/probes: Eliminate recursion in parse_probe_arg()
  tracing/probes: Extend max length of argument string
  tracing/probes: Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically
  tracing/probes: Refactor parse_probe_arg()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T21:06:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-19T21:06:14+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Expose btf_ids to trace events

   In order to allow BPF programs to attach to system call trace events
   (which are actually pseudo trace events built on top of raw_syscall
   events), expose the BTF ID of the events. This will allow BPF
   programs better precision in attaching to events.

 - Use "u64" to assign to hist_field-&gt;type

   Instead of using kstrdup("u64", GFP_KERNEL) to assign the
   hist_field-&gt;type, just point it to "u64" instead. The
   hist_field-&gt;type is freed via kfree_const().

 - Replace kmalloc()/strcpy() with kstrdup() for trace_printk

   Instead of having two calls to copy the module format string, just
   use kstrdup().

 - Use __free() in trace event histograms and triggres where possible

 - Use seq_buf in trace event code instead of strcat()

   Instead of calculating the size of the buffer to use and filling it
   with strcat(), use the seq_buf infrastructure that takes care of
   making sure not to overflow the string size.

 - Reject invalid preemptirq_delay_test CPU affinity

   The preempt_delay_test module can take an invalid CPU affinity mask
   and create confusing output. Simply have the module reject invalid
   affinity masks.

 - Prevent division by zero in ftrace_ops sample module code

   If the ftrace_ops sample module code receives the module parameter
   nr_function_calls set to zero, it can cause a division by zero error.

 - Warn when an event dereferences a parameter in TP_printk()

   On boot up and module load, the trace event TP_printk() is scanned
   for possible bugs. As the TP_printk() code is executed when the user
   reads the "trace" file and processes the data written when the
   trace_event executed, the data it reads can be literally days old.
   The scan currently checks for dereferencing printk formats like
   "%pI6". But it does not check if the parameters themselves have a
   dereference like:

	TP_printk("offset %08x: value %08x",
		(u32)(__entry-&gt;addr - __entry-&gt;edma-&gt;membase), __entry-&gt;value)

   __entry represents the pointer to the event on the ring buffer. The
   __entry-&gt;edma-&gt;membase is dereferencing a pointer on the ring buffer
   to find membase, but the __entry-&gt;edma may no longer be a valid
   pointer.

   Warn on this case too.

 - Replace some strcpy() with strscpy()

 - Clean up mmiotrace events to use assign_type() macro

   The assign_type() macro makes sure the event type is indeed the type
   that is being parsed. The mmiotrace trace was written before that
   macro was created so it just simply typecasted the pointer.

   Replace the typecasting with the macro.

 - Have the ENUM processing to numbers only process what is added

   The code that converts ENUMs to their numbers in the trace events
   scanned all events to do the processing. This was true when a module
   was loaded too. That is, instead of processing just the events for
   the module, it processed *all* events. Even the builtin ones that
   were processed at boot up.

   Add a check for the event-&gt;module matching mod if it is a module
   before processing it.

* tag 'trace-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (21 commits)
  tracing: Have trace_event_update_all() only handle module that is loading
  tracing: Cleanup event_enable_trigger_parse() by using __free()
  tracing: Report every TP_printk double dereference
  tracing/mmiotrace: Use trace_assign_type() in mmio_print_mark()
  tracing: Make per-template BTF id lists file-local
  tracing: Use seq_buf for string concatenation
  tracing: Use strscpy() instead of strcpy() in trace_sched_switch
  tracing: Warn when an event dereferences a pointer in TP_printk()
  samples/ftrace: Prevent division by zero when nr_function_calls is zero
  tracing: Reject invalid preemptirq_delay_test CPU affinity
  fgraph: Use trace_seq_putc() in print_graph_return()
  tracing/user_events: Replace a seq_printf() call by seq_puts() in user_seq_show()
  tracing/user_events: Use seq_putc() in two functions
  tracing: Bound histogram expression strings with seq_buf
  tracing: Return ERR_PTR() from expr_str()
  tracing: Use __free() for expr_str() buffer
  kernel/trace/trace_printk: Use kstrdup() instead of kmalloc() and strcpy()
  tracing: Point constant hist field type to string literal
  selftests/bpf: Add test for tracepoint btf_ids tracefs file
  tracing: Expose tracepoint BTF ids via tracefs
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Expose btf_ids to trace events

   In order to allow BPF programs to attach to system call trace events
   (which are actually pseudo trace events built on top of raw_syscall
   events), expose the BTF ID of the events. This will allow BPF
   programs better precision in attaching to events.

 - Use "u64" to assign to hist_field-&gt;type

   Instead of using kstrdup("u64", GFP_KERNEL) to assign the
   hist_field-&gt;type, just point it to "u64" instead. The
   hist_field-&gt;type is freed via kfree_const().

 - Replace kmalloc()/strcpy() with kstrdup() for trace_printk

   Instead of having two calls to copy the module format string, just
   use kstrdup().

 - Use __free() in trace event histograms and triggres where possible

 - Use seq_buf in trace event code instead of strcat()

   Instead of calculating the size of the buffer to use and filling it
   with strcat(), use the seq_buf infrastructure that takes care of
   making sure not to overflow the string size.

 - Reject invalid preemptirq_delay_test CPU affinity

   The preempt_delay_test module can take an invalid CPU affinity mask
   and create confusing output. Simply have the module reject invalid
   affinity masks.

 - Prevent division by zero in ftrace_ops sample module code

   If the ftrace_ops sample module code receives the module parameter
   nr_function_calls set to zero, it can cause a division by zero error.

 - Warn when an event dereferences a parameter in TP_printk()

   On boot up and module load, the trace event TP_printk() is scanned
   for possible bugs. As the TP_printk() code is executed when the user
   reads the "trace" file and processes the data written when the
   trace_event executed, the data it reads can be literally days old.
   The scan currently checks for dereferencing printk formats like
   "%pI6". But it does not check if the parameters themselves have a
   dereference like:

	TP_printk("offset %08x: value %08x",
		(u32)(__entry-&gt;addr - __entry-&gt;edma-&gt;membase), __entry-&gt;value)

   __entry represents the pointer to the event on the ring buffer. The
   __entry-&gt;edma-&gt;membase is dereferencing a pointer on the ring buffer
   to find membase, but the __entry-&gt;edma may no longer be a valid
   pointer.

   Warn on this case too.

 - Replace some strcpy() with strscpy()

 - Clean up mmiotrace events to use assign_type() macro

   The assign_type() macro makes sure the event type is indeed the type
   that is being parsed. The mmiotrace trace was written before that
   macro was created so it just simply typecasted the pointer.

   Replace the typecasting with the macro.

 - Have the ENUM processing to numbers only process what is added

   The code that converts ENUMs to their numbers in the trace events
   scanned all events to do the processing. This was true when a module
   was loaded too. That is, instead of processing just the events for
   the module, it processed *all* events. Even the builtin ones that
   were processed at boot up.

   Add a check for the event-&gt;module matching mod if it is a module
   before processing it.

* tag 'trace-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (21 commits)
  tracing: Have trace_event_update_all() only handle module that is loading
  tracing: Cleanup event_enable_trigger_parse() by using __free()
  tracing: Report every TP_printk double dereference
  tracing/mmiotrace: Use trace_assign_type() in mmio_print_mark()
  tracing: Make per-template BTF id lists file-local
  tracing: Use seq_buf for string concatenation
  tracing: Use strscpy() instead of strcpy() in trace_sched_switch
  tracing: Warn when an event dereferences a pointer in TP_printk()
  samples/ftrace: Prevent division by zero when nr_function_calls is zero
  tracing: Reject invalid preemptirq_delay_test CPU affinity
  fgraph: Use trace_seq_putc() in print_graph_return()
  tracing/user_events: Replace a seq_printf() call by seq_puts() in user_seq_show()
  tracing/user_events: Use seq_putc() in two functions
  tracing: Bound histogram expression strings with seq_buf
  tracing: Return ERR_PTR() from expr_str()
  tracing: Use __free() for expr_str() buffer
  kernel/trace/trace_printk: Use kstrdup() instead of kmalloc() and strcpy()
  tracing: Point constant hist field type to string literal
  selftests/bpf: Add test for tracepoint btf_ids tracefs file
  tracing: Expose tracepoint BTF ids via tracefs
  ...
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Have trace_event_update_all() only handle module that is loading</title>
<updated>2026-08-14T13:59:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-14T00:42:26+00:00</published>
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The function trace_event_update_all() does a scan of events looking to
replace enums with their values in the strings that get exported to the
event format files. It's run at boot up on all events and again when a
module loads.

The issue is that when a module loads, it still runs on *all* events.
There's no reason to process every event when a module loads as the
previous events have already been processed. Only execute on the events
that are loaded with the module.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813204226.29563591@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 3673b8e4ce723 ("tracing: Allow for modules to convert their enums to values")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The function trace_event_update_all() does a scan of events looking to
replace enums with their values in the strings that get exported to the
event format files. It's run at boot up on all events and again when a
module loads.

The issue is that when a module loads, it still runs on *all* events.
There's no reason to process every event when a module loads as the
previous events have already been processed. Only execute on the events
that are loaded with the module.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813204226.29563591@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 3673b8e4ce723 ("tracing: Allow for modules to convert their enums to values")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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