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<title>tracing: Move pipe reference to trace array instead of current_tracer</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T11:05:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-30T03:45:56+00:00</published>
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commit 7ef282e05132d56b6f6b71e3873f317664bea78b upstream.

If a process has the trace_pipe open on a trace_array, the current tracer
for that trace array should not be changed. This was original enforced by a
global lock, but when instances were introduced, it was moved to the
current_trace. But this structure is shared by all instances, and a
trace_pipe is for a single instance. There's no reason that a process that
has trace_pipe open on one instance should prevent another instance from
changing its current tracer. Move the reference counter to the trace_array
instead.

This is marked as "Fixes" but is more of a clean up than a true fix.
Backport if you want, but its not critical.

Fixes: cf6ab6d9143b1 ("tracing: Add ref count to tracer for when they are being read by pipe")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[Resolved conflict in __remove_instance()]
Signed-off-by: dann frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7ef282e05132d56b6f6b71e3873f317664bea78b upstream.

If a process has the trace_pipe open on a trace_array, the current tracer
for that trace array should not be changed. This was original enforced by a
global lock, but when instances were introduced, it was moved to the
current_trace. But this structure is shared by all instances, and a
trace_pipe is for a single instance. There's no reason that a process that
has trace_pipe open on one instance should prevent another instance from
changing its current tracer. Move the reference counter to the trace_array
instead.

This is marked as "Fixes" but is more of a clean up than a true fix.
Backport if you want, but its not critical.

Fixes: cf6ab6d9143b1 ("tracing: Add ref count to tracer for when they are being read by pipe")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[Resolved conflict in __remove_instance()]
Signed-off-by: dann frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Add a vmalloc_sync_mappings() for safe measure</title>
<updated>2020-05-14T05:58:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T14:36:18+00:00</published>
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commit 11f5efc3ab66284f7aaacc926e9351d658e2577b upstream.

x86_64 lazily maps in the vmalloc pages, and the way this works with per_cpu
areas can be complex, to say the least. Mappings may happen at boot up, and
if nothing synchronizes the page tables, those page mappings may not be
synced till they are used. This causes issues for anything that might touch
one of those mappings in the path of the page fault handler. When one of
those unmapped mappings is touched in the page fault handler, it will cause
another page fault, which in turn will cause a page fault, and leave us in
a loop of page faults.

Commit 763802b53a42 ("x86/mm: split vmalloc_sync_all()") split
vmalloc_sync_all() into vmalloc_sync_unmappings() and
vmalloc_sync_mappings(), as on system exit, it did not need to do a full
sync on x86_64 (although it still needed to be done on x86_32). By chance,
the vmalloc_sync_all() would synchronize the page mappings done at boot up
and prevent the per cpu area from being a problem for tracing in the page
fault handler. But when that synchronization in the exit of a task became a
nop, it caused the problem to appear.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429054857.66e8e333@oasis.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 737223fbca3b1 ("tracing: Consolidate buffer allocation code")
Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" &lt;tz.stoyanov@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 11f5efc3ab66284f7aaacc926e9351d658e2577b upstream.

x86_64 lazily maps in the vmalloc pages, and the way this works with per_cpu
areas can be complex, to say the least. Mappings may happen at boot up, and
if nothing synchronizes the page tables, those page mappings may not be
synced till they are used. This causes issues for anything that might touch
one of those mappings in the path of the page fault handler. When one of
those unmapped mappings is touched in the page fault handler, it will cause
another page fault, which in turn will cause a page fault, and leave us in
a loop of page faults.

Commit 763802b53a42 ("x86/mm: split vmalloc_sync_all()") split
vmalloc_sync_all() into vmalloc_sync_unmappings() and
vmalloc_sync_mappings(), as on system exit, it did not need to do a full
sync on x86_64 (although it still needed to be done on x86_32). By chance,
the vmalloc_sync_all() would synchronize the page mappings done at boot up
and prevent the per cpu area from being a problem for tracing in the page
fault handler. But when that synchronization in the exit of a task became a
nop, it caused the problem to appear.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429054857.66e8e333@oasis.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 737223fbca3b1 ("tracing: Consolidate buffer allocation code")
Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" &lt;tz.stoyanov@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Disable trace_printk() on post poned tests</title>
<updated>2020-03-05T15:43:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-20T20:38:01+00:00</published>
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commit 78041c0c9e935d9ce4086feeff6c569ed88ddfd4 upstream.

The tracing seftests checks various aspects of the tracing infrastructure,
and one is filtering. If trace_printk() is active during a self test, it can
cause the filtering to fail, which will disable that part of the trace.

To keep the selftests from failing because of trace_printk() calls,
trace_printk() checks the variable tracing_selftest_running, and if set, it
does not write to the tracing buffer.

As some tracers were registered earlier in boot, the selftest they triggered
would fail because not all the infrastructure was set up for the full
selftest. Thus, some of the tests were post poned to when their
infrastructure was ready (namely file system code). The postpone code did
not set the tracing_seftest_running variable, and could fail if a
trace_printk() was added and executed during their run.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9afecfbb95198 ("tracing: Postpone tracer start-up tests till the system is more robust")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 78041c0c9e935d9ce4086feeff6c569ed88ddfd4 upstream.

The tracing seftests checks various aspects of the tracing infrastructure,
and one is filtering. If trace_printk() is active during a self test, it can
cause the filtering to fail, which will disable that part of the trace.

To keep the selftests from failing because of trace_printk() calls,
trace_printk() checks the variable tracing_selftest_running, and if set, it
does not write to the tracing buffer.

As some tracers were registered earlier in boot, the selftest they triggered
would fail because not all the infrastructure was set up for the full
selftest. Thus, some of the tests were post poned to when their
infrastructure was ready (namely file system code). The postpone code did
not set the tracing_seftest_running variable, and could fail if a
trace_printk() was added and executed during their run.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9afecfbb95198 ("tracing: Postpone tracer start-up tests till the system is more robust")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Do not set trace clock if tracefs lockdown is in effect</title>
<updated>2020-01-29T15:45:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Ichikawa</name>
<email>masami256@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-16T13:12:36+00:00</published>
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commit bf24daac8f2bd5b8affaec03c2be1d20bcdd6837 upstream.

When trace_clock option is not set and unstable clcok detected,
tracing_set_default_clock() sets trace_clock(ThinkPad A285 is one of
case). In that case, if lockdown is in effect, null pointer
dereference error happens in ring_buffer_set_clock().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200116131236.3866925-1-masami256@gmail.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 17911ff38aa58 ("tracing: Add locked_down checks to the open calls of files created for tracefs")
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788488
Signed-off-by: Masami Ichikawa &lt;masami256@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit bf24daac8f2bd5b8affaec03c2be1d20bcdd6837 upstream.

When trace_clock option is not set and unstable clcok detected,
tracing_set_default_clock() sets trace_clock(ThinkPad A285 is one of
case). In that case, if lockdown is in effect, null pointer
dereference error happens in ring_buffer_set_clock().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200116131236.3866925-1-masami256@gmail.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 17911ff38aa58 ("tracing: Add locked_down checks to the open calls of files created for tracefs")
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788488
Signed-off-by: Masami Ichikawa &lt;masami256@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Do not create directories if lockdown is in affect</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T11:21:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-02T21:25:27+00:00</published>
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commit a356646a56857c2e5ad875beec734d7145ecd49a upstream.

If lockdown is disabling tracing on boot up, it prevents the tracing files
from even bering created. But when that happens, there's several places that
will give a warning that the files were not created as that is usually a
sign of a bug.

Add in strategic locations where a check is made to see if tracing is
disabled by lockdown, and if it is, do not go further, and fail silently
(but print that tracing is disabled by lockdown, without doing a WARN_ON()).

Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 17911ff38aa5 ("tracing: Add locked_down checks to the open calls of files created for tracefs")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a356646a56857c2e5ad875beec734d7145ecd49a upstream.

If lockdown is disabling tracing on boot up, it prevents the tracing files
from even bering created. But when that happens, there's several places that
will give a warning that the files were not created as that is usually a
sign of a bug.

Add in strategic locations where a check is made to see if tracing is
disabled by lockdown, and if it is, do not go further, and fail silently
(but print that tracing is disabled by lockdown, without doing a WARN_ON()).

Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 17911ff38aa5 ("tracing: Add locked_down checks to the open calls of files created for tracefs")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix lock inversion in trace_event_enable_tgid_record()</title>
<updated>2020-01-09T09:19:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prateek Sood</name>
<email>prsood@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-10T09:15:16+00:00</published>
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commit 3a53acf1d9bea11b57c1f6205e3fe73f9d8a3688 upstream.

       Task T2                             Task T3
trace_options_core_write()            subsystem_open()

 mutex_lock(trace_types_lock)           mutex_lock(event_mutex)

 set_tracer_flag()

   trace_event_enable_tgid_record()       mutex_lock(trace_types_lock)

    mutex_lock(event_mutex)

This gives a circular dependency deadlock between trace_types_lock and
event_mutex. To fix this invert the usage of trace_types_lock and
event_mutex in trace_options_core_write(). This keeps the sequence of
lock usage consistent.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0101016eef175e38-8ca71caf-a4eb-480d-a1e6-6f0bbc015495-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d914ba37d7145 ("tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks")
Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood &lt;prsood@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3a53acf1d9bea11b57c1f6205e3fe73f9d8a3688 upstream.

       Task T2                             Task T3
trace_options_core_write()            subsystem_open()

 mutex_lock(trace_types_lock)           mutex_lock(event_mutex)

 set_tracer_flag()

   trace_event_enable_tgid_record()       mutex_lock(trace_types_lock)

    mutex_lock(event_mutex)

This gives a circular dependency deadlock between trace_types_lock and
event_mutex. To fix this invert the usage of trace_types_lock and
event_mutex in trace_options_core_write(). This keeps the sequence of
lock usage consistent.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0101016eef175e38-8ca71caf-a4eb-480d-a1e6-6f0bbc015495-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d914ba37d7145 ("tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks")
Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood &lt;prsood@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>tracing: use kvcalloc for tgid_map array allocation</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:45:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuming Han</name>
<email>yuming.han@unisoc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-24T03:34:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6ee40511cb838f9ced002dff7131bca87e3ccbdd ]

Fail to allocate memory for tgid_map, because it requires order-6 page.
detail as:

c3 sh: page allocation failure: order:6,
   mode:0x140c0c0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null)
c3 sh cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
c3 CPU: 3 PID: 5632 Comm: sh Tainted: G        W  O    4.14.133+ #10
c3 Hardware name: Generic DT based system
c3 Backtrace:
c3 [&lt;c010bdbc&gt;] (dump_backtrace) from [&lt;c010c08c&gt;](show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
c3 [&lt;c010c074&gt;] (show_stack) from [&lt;c0993c54&gt;](dump_stack+0x84/0xa4)
c3 [&lt;c0993bd0&gt;] (dump_stack) from [&lt;c0229858&gt;](warn_alloc+0xc4/0x19c)
c3 [&lt;c0229798&gt;] (warn_alloc) from [&lt;c022a6e4&gt;](__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd18/0xf28)
c3 [&lt;c02299cc&gt;] (__alloc_pages_nodemask) from [&lt;c0248344&gt;](kmalloc_order+0x20/0x38)
c3 [&lt;c0248324&gt;] (kmalloc_order) from [&lt;c0248380&gt;](kmalloc_order_trace+0x24/0x108)
c3 [&lt;c024835c&gt;] (kmalloc_order_trace) from [&lt;c01e6078&gt;](set_tracer_flag+0xb0/0x158)
c3 [&lt;c01e5fc8&gt;] (set_tracer_flag) from [&lt;c01e6404&gt;](trace_options_core_write+0x7c/0xcc)
c3 [&lt;c01e6388&gt;] (trace_options_core_write) from [&lt;c0278b1c&gt;](__vfs_write+0x40/0x14c)
c3 [&lt;c0278adc&gt;] (__vfs_write) from [&lt;c0278e10&gt;](vfs_write+0xc4/0x198)
c3 [&lt;c0278d4c&gt;] (vfs_write) from [&lt;c027906c&gt;](SyS_write+0x6c/0xd0)
c3 [&lt;c0279000&gt;] (SyS_write) from [&lt;c01079a0&gt;](ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54)

Switch to use kvcalloc to avoid unexpected allocation failures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571888070-24425-1-git-send-email-chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com

Signed-off-by: Yuming Han &lt;yuming.han@unisoc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6ee40511cb838f9ced002dff7131bca87e3ccbdd ]

Fail to allocate memory for tgid_map, because it requires order-6 page.
detail as:

c3 sh: page allocation failure: order:6,
   mode:0x140c0c0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null)
c3 sh cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
c3 CPU: 3 PID: 5632 Comm: sh Tainted: G        W  O    4.14.133+ #10
c3 Hardware name: Generic DT based system
c3 Backtrace:
c3 [&lt;c010bdbc&gt;] (dump_backtrace) from [&lt;c010c08c&gt;](show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
c3 [&lt;c010c074&gt;] (show_stack) from [&lt;c0993c54&gt;](dump_stack+0x84/0xa4)
c3 [&lt;c0993bd0&gt;] (dump_stack) from [&lt;c0229858&gt;](warn_alloc+0xc4/0x19c)
c3 [&lt;c0229798&gt;] (warn_alloc) from [&lt;c022a6e4&gt;](__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd18/0xf28)
c3 [&lt;c02299cc&gt;] (__alloc_pages_nodemask) from [&lt;c0248344&gt;](kmalloc_order+0x20/0x38)
c3 [&lt;c0248324&gt;] (kmalloc_order) from [&lt;c0248380&gt;](kmalloc_order_trace+0x24/0x108)
c3 [&lt;c024835c&gt;] (kmalloc_order_trace) from [&lt;c01e6078&gt;](set_tracer_flag+0xb0/0x158)
c3 [&lt;c01e5fc8&gt;] (set_tracer_flag) from [&lt;c01e6404&gt;](trace_options_core_write+0x7c/0xcc)
c3 [&lt;c01e6388&gt;] (trace_options_core_write) from [&lt;c0278b1c&gt;](__vfs_write+0x40/0x14c)
c3 [&lt;c0278adc&gt;] (__vfs_write) from [&lt;c0278e10&gt;](vfs_write+0xc4/0x198)
c3 [&lt;c0278d4c&gt;] (vfs_write) from [&lt;c027906c&gt;](SyS_write+0x6c/0xd0)
c3 [&lt;c0279000&gt;] (SyS_write) from [&lt;c01079a0&gt;](ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54)

Switch to use kvcalloc to avoid unexpected allocation failures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571888070-24425-1-git-send-email-chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com

Signed-off-by: Yuming Han &lt;yuming.han@unisoc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Initialize iter-&gt;seq after zeroing in tracing_read_pipe()</title>
<updated>2019-10-13T00:49:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-11T14:21:34+00:00</published>
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A customer reported the following softlockup:

[899688.160002] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [test.sh:16464]
[899688.160002] CPU: 0 PID: 16464 Comm: test.sh Not tainted 4.12.14-6.23-azure #1 SLE12-SP4
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] RSP: 0018:ffffa86784d4fde8 EFLAGS: 00000257 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff12
[899688.160002] RAX: ffffffff970fea00 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] RDX: ffffffff00000001 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: ffffffff970fea00
[899688.160002] RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b59014720d8
[899688.160002] R13: ffff8b59014720c0 R14: ffff8b5901471090 R15: ffff8b5901470000
[899688.160002]  tracing_read_pipe+0x336/0x3c0
[899688.160002]  __vfs_read+0x26/0x140
[899688.160002]  vfs_read+0x87/0x130
[899688.160002]  SyS_read+0x42/0x90
[899688.160002]  do_syscall_64+0x74/0x160

It caught the process in the middle of trace_access_unlock(). There is
no loop. So, it must be looping in the caller tracing_read_pipe()
via the "waitagain" label.

Crashdump analyze uncovered that iter-&gt;seq was completely zeroed
at this point, including iter-&gt;seq.seq.size. It means that
print_trace_line() was never able to print anything and
there was no forward progress.

The culprit seems to be in the code:

	/* reset all but tr, trace, and overruns */
	memset(&amp;iter-&gt;seq, 0,
	       sizeof(struct trace_iterator) -
	       offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq));

It was added by the commit 53d0aa773053ab182877 ("ftrace:
add logic to record overruns"). It was v2.6.27-rc1.
It was the time when iter-&gt;seq looked like:

     struct trace_seq {
	unsigned char		buffer[PAGE_SIZE];
	unsigned int		len;
     };

There was no "size" variable and zeroing was perfectly fine.

The solution is to reinitialize the structure after or without
zeroing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011142134.11997-1-pmladek@suse.com

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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A customer reported the following softlockup:

[899688.160002] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [test.sh:16464]
[899688.160002] CPU: 0 PID: 16464 Comm: test.sh Not tainted 4.12.14-6.23-azure #1 SLE12-SP4
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] RSP: 0018:ffffa86784d4fde8 EFLAGS: 00000257 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff12
[899688.160002] RAX: ffffffff970fea00 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] RDX: ffffffff00000001 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: ffffffff970fea00
[899688.160002] RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b59014720d8
[899688.160002] R13: ffff8b59014720c0 R14: ffff8b5901471090 R15: ffff8b5901470000
[899688.160002]  tracing_read_pipe+0x336/0x3c0
[899688.160002]  __vfs_read+0x26/0x140
[899688.160002]  vfs_read+0x87/0x130
[899688.160002]  SyS_read+0x42/0x90
[899688.160002]  do_syscall_64+0x74/0x160

It caught the process in the middle of trace_access_unlock(). There is
no loop. So, it must be looping in the caller tracing_read_pipe()
via the "waitagain" label.

Crashdump analyze uncovered that iter-&gt;seq was completely zeroed
at this point, including iter-&gt;seq.seq.size. It means that
print_trace_line() was never able to print anything and
there was no forward progress.

The culprit seems to be in the code:

	/* reset all but tr, trace, and overruns */
	memset(&amp;iter-&gt;seq, 0,
	       sizeof(struct trace_iterator) -
	       offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq));

It was added by the commit 53d0aa773053ab182877 ("ftrace:
add logic to record overruns"). It was v2.6.27-rc1.
It was the time when iter-&gt;seq looked like:

     struct trace_seq {
	unsigned char		buffer[PAGE_SIZE];
	unsigned int		len;
     };

There was no "size" variable and zeroing was perfectly fine.

The solution is to reinitialize the structure after or without
zeroing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011142134.11997-1-pmladek@suse.com

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Add locked_down checks to the open calls of files created for tracefs</title>
<updated>2019-10-13T00:48:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-11T21:22:50+00:00</published>
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Added various checks on open tracefs calls to see if tracefs is in lockdown
mode, and if so, to return -EPERM.

Note, the event format files (which are basically standard on all machines)
as well as the enabled_functions file (which shows what is currently being
traced) are not lockde down. Perhaps they should be, but it seems counter
intuitive to lockdown information to help you know if the system has been
modified.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wj7fGPKUspr579Cii-w_y60PtRaiDgKuxVtBAMK0VNNkA@mail.gmail.com

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Added various checks on open tracefs calls to see if tracefs is in lockdown
mode, and if so, to return -EPERM.

Note, the event format files (which are basically standard on all machines)
as well as the enabled_functions file (which shows what is currently being
traced) are not lockde down. Perhaps they should be, but it seems counter
intuitive to lockdown information to help you know if the system has been
modified.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wj7fGPKUspr579Cii-w_y60PtRaiDgKuxVtBAMK0VNNkA@mail.gmail.com

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add tracing_check_open_get_tr()</title>
<updated>2019-10-13T00:44:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-11T21:39:57+00:00</published>
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Currently, most files in the tracefs directory test if tracing_disabled is
set. If so, it should return -ENODEV. The tracing_disabled is called when
tracing is found to be broken. Originally it was done in case the ring
buffer was found to be corrupted, and we wanted to prevent reading it from
crashing the kernel. But it's also called if a tracing selftest fails on
boot. It's a one way switch. That is, once it is triggered, tracing is
disabled until reboot.

As most tracefs files can also be used by instances in the tracefs
directory, they need to be carefully done. Each instance has a trace_array
associated to it, and when the instance is removed, the trace_array is
freed. But if an instance is opened with a reference to the trace_array,
then it requires looking up the trace_array to get its ref counter (as there
could be a race with it being deleted and the open itself). Once it is
found, a reference is added to prevent the instance from being removed (and
the trace_array associated with it freed).

Combine the two checks (tracing_disabled and trace_array_get()) into a
single helper function. This will also make it easier to add lockdown to
tracefs later.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011135458.7399da44@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Currently, most files in the tracefs directory test if tracing_disabled is
set. If so, it should return -ENODEV. The tracing_disabled is called when
tracing is found to be broken. Originally it was done in case the ring
buffer was found to be corrupted, and we wanted to prevent reading it from
crashing the kernel. But it's also called if a tracing selftest fails on
boot. It's a one way switch. That is, once it is triggered, tracing is
disabled until reboot.

As most tracefs files can also be used by instances in the tracefs
directory, they need to be carefully done. Each instance has a trace_array
associated to it, and when the instance is removed, the trace_array is
freed. But if an instance is opened with a reference to the trace_array,
then it requires looking up the trace_array to get its ref counter (as there
could be a race with it being deleted and the open itself). Once it is
found, a reference is added to prevent the instance from being removed (and
the trace_array associated with it freed).

Combine the two checks (tracing_disabled and trace_array_get()) into a
single helper function. This will also make it easier to add lockdown to
tracefs later.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011135458.7399da44@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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