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<title>linux.git/kernel/trace, branch v6.4-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>fprobe: add recursion detection in fprobe_exit_handler</title>
<updated>2023-05-17T22:08:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ze Gao</name>
<email>zegao2021@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-17T03:45:08+00:00</published>
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fprobe_hander and fprobe_kprobe_handler has guarded ftrace recursion
detection but fprobe_exit_handler has not, which possibly introduce
recursive calls if the fprobe exit callback calls any traceable
functions. Checking in fprobe_hander or fprobe_kprobe_handler
is not enough and misses this case.

So add recursion free guard the same way as fprobe_hander. Since
ftrace recursion check does not employ ip(s), so here use entry_ip and
entry_parent_ip the same as fprobe_handler.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230517034510.15639-4-zegao@tencent.com/

Fixes: 5b0ab78998e3 ("fprobe: Add exit_handler support")
Signed-off-by: Ze Gao &lt;zegao@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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fprobe_hander and fprobe_kprobe_handler has guarded ftrace recursion
detection but fprobe_exit_handler has not, which possibly introduce
recursive calls if the fprobe exit callback calls any traceable
functions. Checking in fprobe_hander or fprobe_kprobe_handler
is not enough and misses this case.

So add recursion free guard the same way as fprobe_hander. Since
ftrace recursion check does not employ ip(s), so here use entry_ip and
entry_parent_ip the same as fprobe_handler.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230517034510.15639-4-zegao@tencent.com/

Fixes: 5b0ab78998e3 ("fprobe: Add exit_handler support")
Signed-off-by: Ze Gao &lt;zegao@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fprobe: make fprobe_kprobe_handler recursion free</title>
<updated>2023-05-17T22:08:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ze Gao</name>
<email>zegao2021@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-17T03:45:07+00:00</published>
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<id>3cc4e2c5fbae84e5033723fb7e350bc6c164e3a2</id>
<content type='text'>
Current implementation calls kprobe related functions before doing
ftrace recursion check in fprobe_kprobe_handler, which opens door
to kernel crash due to stack recursion if preempt_count_{add, sub}
is traceable in kprobe_busy_{begin, end}.

Things goes like this without this patch quoted from Steven:
"
fprobe_kprobe_handler() {
   kprobe_busy_begin() {
      preempt_disable() {
         preempt_count_add() {  &lt;-- trace
            fprobe_kprobe_handler() {
		[ wash, rinse, repeat, CRASH!!! ]
"

By refactoring the common part out of fprobe_kprobe_handler and
fprobe_handler and call ftrace recursion detection at the very beginning,
the whole fprobe_kprobe_handler is free from recursion.

[ Fix the indentation of __fprobe_handler() parameters. ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230517034510.15639-3-zegao@tencent.com/

Fixes: ab51e15d535e ("fprobe: Introduce FPROBE_FL_KPROBE_SHARED flag for fprobe")
Signed-off-by: Ze Gao &lt;zegao@tencent.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Current implementation calls kprobe related functions before doing
ftrace recursion check in fprobe_kprobe_handler, which opens door
to kernel crash due to stack recursion if preempt_count_{add, sub}
is traceable in kprobe_busy_{begin, end}.

Things goes like this without this patch quoted from Steven:
"
fprobe_kprobe_handler() {
   kprobe_busy_begin() {
      preempt_disable() {
         preempt_count_add() {  &lt;-- trace
            fprobe_kprobe_handler() {
		[ wash, rinse, repeat, CRASH!!! ]
"

By refactoring the common part out of fprobe_kprobe_handler and
fprobe_handler and call ftrace recursion detection at the very beginning,
the whole fprobe_kprobe_handler is free from recursion.

[ Fix the indentation of __fprobe_handler() parameters. ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230517034510.15639-3-zegao@tencent.com/

Fixes: ab51e15d535e ("fprobe: Introduce FPROBE_FL_KPROBE_SHARED flag for fprobe")
Signed-off-by: Ze Gao &lt;zegao@tencent.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rethook: use preempt_{disable, enable}_notrace in rethook_trampoline_handler</title>
<updated>2023-05-17T22:08:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ze Gao</name>
<email>zegao2021@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-17T03:45:06+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This patch replaces preempt_{disable, enable} with its corresponding
notrace version in rethook_trampoline_handler so no worries about stack
recursion or overflow introduced by preempt_count_{add, sub} under
fprobe + rethook context.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230517034510.15639-2-zegao@tencent.com/

Fixes: 54ecbe6f1ed5 ("rethook: Add a generic return hook")
Signed-off-by: Ze Gao &lt;zegao@tencent.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch replaces preempt_{disable, enable} with its corresponding
notrace version in rethook_trampoline_handler so no worries about stack
recursion or overflow introduced by preempt_count_{add, sub} under
fprobe + rethook context.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230517034510.15639-2-zegao@tencent.com/

Fixes: 54ecbe6f1ed5 ("rethook: Add a generic return hook")
Signed-off-by: Ze Gao &lt;zegao@tencent.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: fprobe: Initialize ret valiable to fix smatch error</title>
<updated>2023-05-17T11:42:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-09T02:28:31+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The commit 39d954200bf6 ("fprobe: Skip exit_handler if entry_handler returns
!0") introduced a hidden dependency of 'ret' local variable in the
fprobe_handler(), Smatch warns the `ret` can be accessed without
initialization.

	kernel/trace/fprobe.c:59 fprobe_handler()
	error: uninitialized symbol 'ret'.

kernel/trace/fprobe.c
    49                 fpr-&gt;entry_ip = ip;
    50                 if (fp-&gt;entry_data_size)
    51                         entry_data = fpr-&gt;data;
    52         }
    53
    54         if (fp-&gt;entry_handler)
    55                 ret = fp-&gt;entry_handler(fp, ip, ftrace_get_regs(fregs), entry_data);

ret is only initialized if there is an -&gt;entry_handler

    56
    57         /* If entry_handler returns !0, nmissed is not counted. */
    58         if (rh) {

rh is only true if there is an -&gt;exit_handler.  Presumably if you have
and -&gt;exit_handler that means you also have a -&gt;entry_handler but Smatch
is not smart enough to figure it out.

--&gt; 59                 if (ret)
                           ^^^
Warning here.

    60                         rethook_recycle(rh);
    61                 else
    62                         rethook_hook(rh, ftrace_get_regs(fregs), true);
    63         }
    64 out:
    65         ftrace_test_recursion_unlock(bit);
    66 }

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/168100731160.79534.374827110083836722.stgit@devnote2/

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/85429a5c-a4b9-499e-b6c0-cbd313291c49@kili.mountain
Fixes: 39d954200bf6 ("fprobe: Skip exit_handler if entry_handler returns !0")
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The commit 39d954200bf6 ("fprobe: Skip exit_handler if entry_handler returns
!0") introduced a hidden dependency of 'ret' local variable in the
fprobe_handler(), Smatch warns the `ret` can be accessed without
initialization.

	kernel/trace/fprobe.c:59 fprobe_handler()
	error: uninitialized symbol 'ret'.

kernel/trace/fprobe.c
    49                 fpr-&gt;entry_ip = ip;
    50                 if (fp-&gt;entry_data_size)
    51                         entry_data = fpr-&gt;data;
    52         }
    53
    54         if (fp-&gt;entry_handler)
    55                 ret = fp-&gt;entry_handler(fp, ip, ftrace_get_regs(fregs), entry_data);

ret is only initialized if there is an -&gt;entry_handler

    56
    57         /* If entry_handler returns !0, nmissed is not counted. */
    58         if (rh) {

rh is only true if there is an -&gt;exit_handler.  Presumably if you have
and -&gt;exit_handler that means you also have a -&gt;entry_handler but Smatch
is not smart enough to figure it out.

--&gt; 59                 if (ret)
                           ^^^
Warning here.

    60                         rethook_recycle(rh);
    61                 else
    62                         rethook_hook(rh, ftrace_get_regs(fregs), true);
    63         }
    64 out:
    65         ftrace_test_recursion_unlock(bit);
    66 }

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/168100731160.79534.374827110083836722.stgit@devnote2/

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/85429a5c-a4b9-499e-b6c0-cbd313291c49@kili.mountain
Fixes: 39d954200bf6 ("fprobe: Skip exit_handler if entry_handler returns !0")
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-05-05T20:11:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-05T20:11:02+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Make buffer_percent read/write.

   The buffer_percent file is how users can state how long to block on
   the tracing buffer depending on how much is in the buffer. When it
   hits the "buffer_percent" it will wake the task waiting on the
   buffer. For some reason it was set to read-only.

   This was not noticed because testing was done as root without
   SELinux, but with SELinux it will prevent even root to write to it
   without having CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE.

 - The "touched_functions" was added this merge window, but one of the
   reasons for adding it was not implemented.

   That was to show what functions were not only touched, but had either
   a direct trampoline attached to it, or a kprobe or live kernel
   patching that can "hijack" the function to run a different function.
   The point is to know if there's functions in the kernel that may not
   be behaving as the kernel code shows. This can be used for debugging.

   TODO: Add this information to kernel oops too.

* tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached
  tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file
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<pre>
Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Make buffer_percent read/write.

   The buffer_percent file is how users can state how long to block on
   the tracing buffer depending on how much is in the buffer. When it
   hits the "buffer_percent" it will wake the task waiting on the
   buffer. For some reason it was set to read-only.

   This was not noticed because testing was done as root without
   SELinux, but with SELinux it will prevent even root to write to it
   without having CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE.

 - The "touched_functions" was added this merge window, but one of the
   reasons for adding it was not implemented.

   That was to show what functions were not only touched, but had either
   a direct trampoline attached to it, or a kprobe or live kernel
   patching that can "hijack" the function to run a different function.
   The point is to know if there's functions in the kernel that may not
   be behaving as the kernel code shows. This can be used for debugging.

   TODO: Add this information to kernel oops too.

* tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached
  tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached</title>
<updated>2023-05-05T15:09:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-03T01:32:33+00:00</published>
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If a function had ever had IPMODIFY or DIRECT attached to it, where this
is how live kernel patching and BPF overrides work, mark them and display
an "M" in the enabled_functions and touched_functions files. This can be
used for debugging. If a function had been modified and later there's a bug
in the code related to that function, this can be used to know if the cause
is possibly from a live kernel patch or a BPF program that changed the
behavior of the code.

Also update the documentation on the enabled_functions and
touched_functions output, as it was missing direct callers and CALL_OPS.
And include this new modify attribute.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230502213233.004e3ae4@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
If a function had ever had IPMODIFY or DIRECT attached to it, where this
is how live kernel patching and BPF overrides work, mark them and display
an "M" in the enabled_functions and touched_functions files. This can be
used for debugging. If a function had been modified and later there's a bug
in the code related to that function, this can be used to know if the cause
is possibly from a live kernel patch or a BPF program that changed the
behavior of the code.

Also update the documentation on the enabled_functions and
touched_functions output, as it was missing direct callers and CALL_OPS.
And include this new modify attribute.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230502213233.004e3ae4@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file</title>
<updated>2023-05-03T16:45:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ondrej Mosnacek</name>
<email>omosnace@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-03T14:01:14+00:00</published>
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This file defines both read and write operations, yet it is being
created as read-only. This means that it can't be written to without the
CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE capability. Fix the permissions to allow root to write
to it without the need to override DAC perms.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230503140114.3280002-1-omosnace@redhat.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 03329f993978 ("tracing: Add tracefs file buffer_percentage")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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This file defines both read and write operations, yet it is being
created as read-only. This means that it can't be written to without the
CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE capability. Fix the permissions to allow root to write
to it without the need to override DAC perms.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230503140114.3280002-1-omosnace@redhat.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 03329f993978 ("tracing: Add tracefs file buffer_percentage")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-tools-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T23:11:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T23:11:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5ea8abf589f2974d65460a1ffa0c303763e958da'/>
<id>5ea8abf589f2974d65460a1ffa0c303763e958da</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull tracing tools updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Add auto-analysis only option to rtla/timerlat

   Add an --aa-only option to the tooling to perform only the auto
   analysis and not to parse and format the data.

 - Other minor fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-tools-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  rtla/timerlat: Fix "Previous IRQ" auto analysis' line
  rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis only option
  rv: Remove redundant assignment to variable retval
  rv: Fix addition on an uninitialized variable 'run'
  rtla: Add .gitignore file
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<pre>
Pull tracing tools updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Add auto-analysis only option to rtla/timerlat

   Add an --aa-only option to the tooling to perform only the auto
   analysis and not to parse and format the data.

 - Other minor fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-tools-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  rtla/timerlat: Fix "Previous IRQ" auto analysis' line
  rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis only option
  rv: Remove redundant assignment to variable retval
  rv: Fix addition on an uninitialized variable 'run'
  rtla: Add .gitignore file
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T22:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T22:57:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d579c468d7ad6e37f5b4290b0244a9a5a7d3c4bf'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-27T23:36:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T23:36:55+00:00</published>
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Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

   - Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

   - Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

   - My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
     module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
     proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

  Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
  the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
  to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
  debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
  functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
  reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
  issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
  kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
  have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
  want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

  Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

  The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
  patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
  new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
  together all types of supported module memory types in one data
  structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
  module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
  paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
  If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
  handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
  in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
  provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
  quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

  Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
  by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
  specific dynamic debug information.

  Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
  license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
  so to:

   a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
      deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
      part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
      clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
      Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
      kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&amp;D on this area is
      active with no clear solution in sight.

   b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
      of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

  In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
  for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
  modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
  8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
  Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

  Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
  one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
  complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
  possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
  being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
  being part of a module, and if so define a new define
  -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

  A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
  have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
  well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
  always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
  Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
  Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
  benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
  other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
  mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
  with no clear solution in sight [1].

  In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
  never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
  developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
  when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
  so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
  this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
  good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
  cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
  issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
  tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
  modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
  this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
  understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
  guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
  dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
  it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
  file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

    ./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
	$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

  You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
  that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
  license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
  demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

  Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
  just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
  changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

  The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
  were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
  systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
  of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
  of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
  present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
  modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

  The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
  linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
  for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
  week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
  window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
  larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
  bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
  proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
  of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
  them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
  instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
  module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
  module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
  module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
  module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
  module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
  module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
  module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
  module: extract patient module check into helper
  modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
  Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
  module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
  module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
  module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
  interconnect: remove module-related code
  interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ...
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Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

   - Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

   - Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

   - My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
     module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
     proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

  Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
  the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
  to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
  debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
  functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
  reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
  issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
  kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
  have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
  want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

  Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

  The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
  patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
  new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
  together all types of supported module memory types in one data
  structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
  module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
  paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
  If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
  handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
  in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
  provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
  quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

  Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
  by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
  specific dynamic debug information.

  Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
  license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
  so to:

   a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
      deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
      part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
      clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
      Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
      kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&amp;D on this area is
      active with no clear solution in sight.

   b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
      of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

  In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
  for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
  modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
  8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
  Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

  Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
  one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
  complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
  possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
  being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
  being part of a module, and if so define a new define
  -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

  A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
  have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
  well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
  always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
  Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
  Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
  benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
  other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
  mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
  with no clear solution in sight [1].

  In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
  never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
  developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
  when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
  so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
  this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
  good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
  cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
  issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
  tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
  modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
  this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
  understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
  guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
  dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
  it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
  file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

    ./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
	$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

  You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
  that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
  license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
  demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

  Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
  just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
  changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

  The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
  were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
  systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
  of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
  of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
  present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
  modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

  The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
  linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
  for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
  week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
  window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
  larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
  bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
  proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
  of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
  them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
  instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
  module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
  module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
  module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
  module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
  module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
  module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
  module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
  module: extract patient module check into helper
  modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
  Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
  module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
  module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
  module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
  interconnect: remove module-related code
  interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ...
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