linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c, branch v5.10.258

tracing: Avoid NULL return from hist_field_name() on truncation

2026-06-01T15:29:57+00:00

[ Upstream commit 576ec047d20b368b43c4d5db98c4f2e0f3c101ec ]

hist_field_name() returns "" everywhere except the fully-qualified
VAR_REF/EXPR case, where snprintf() truncation returns NULL early
and bypasses the bottom NULL->"" guard. Callers don't expect NULL:
strcat(expr, hist_field_name(field, 0)) at trace_events_hist.c:1758
and the strcmp() in the sort-key match loop at :4804 both deref it.

system and event_name are bounded by MAX_EVENT_NAME_LEN, but the
field name on a VAR_REF is kstrdup'd from a histogram variable
name parsed out of the trigger string and has no length cap, so
a long enough var name in a fully qualified reference can reach
the truncation path.

Keep the length check but leave field_name as "" on overflow.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508195747.25492-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Fixes: 5ec1d1e97de1 ("tracing: Rebuild full_name on each hist_field_name() call")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tracing: Rebuild full_name on each hist_field_name() call

2026-06-01T15:29:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5ec1d1e97de134beed3a5b08235a60fc1c51af96 ]

hist_field_name() uses a static MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL buffer for fully
qualified variable-reference names, but it currently appends into that
buffer with strcat() without rebuilding it first. As a result, repeated
calls append a new "system.event.field" name onto the previous one,
which can eventually run past the end of full_name.

Build the name with snprintf() on each call and return NULL if the fully
qualified name does not fit in MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260401112224.85582-1-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn
Fixes: 067fe038e70f ("tracing: Add variable reference handling to hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi 
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi 
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tracing: Fix memory leaks in create_field_var()

2025-12-06T21:08:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 80f0d631dcc76ee1b7755bfca1d8417d91d71414 ]

The function create_field_var() allocates memory for 'val' through
create_hist_field() inside parse_atom(), and for 'var' through
create_var(), which in turn allocates var->type and var->var.name
internally. Simply calling kfree() to release these structures will
result in memory leaks.

Use destroy_hist_field() to properly free 'val', and explicitly release
the memory of var->type and var->var.name before freeing 'var' itself.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106120132.3639920-1-zilin@seu.edu.cn
Fixes: 02205a6752f22 ("tracing: Add support for 'field variables'")
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tracing: Allow synthetic events to pass around stacktraces

2025-05-02T05:41:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit 00cf3d672a9dd409418647e9f98784c339c3ff63 ]

Allow a stacktrace from one event to be displayed by the end event of a
synthetic event. This is very useful when looking for the longest latency
of a sleep or something blocked on I/O.

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
 # echo 's:block_lat pid_t pid; u64 delta; unsigned long[] stack;' > dynamic_events
 # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:ts=common_timestamp.usecs,st=stacktrace  if prev_state == 1||prev_state == 2' > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
 # echo 'hist:keys=prev_pid:delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts,s=$st:onmax($delta).trace(block_lat,prev_pid,$delta,$s)' >> events/sched/sched_switch/trigger

The above creates a "block_lat" synthetic event that take the stacktrace of
when a task schedules out in either the interruptible or uninterruptible
states, and on a new per process max $delta (the time it was scheduled
out), will print the process id and the stacktrace.

  # echo 1 > events/synthetic/block_lat/enable
  # cat trace
 #           TASK-PID     CPU#  |||||  TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |         |   |||||     |         |
    kworker/u16:0-767     [006] d..4.   560.645045: block_lat: pid=767 delta=66 stack=STACK:
 => __schedule
 => schedule
 => pipe_read
 => vfs_read
 => ksys_read
 => do_syscall_64
 => 0x966000aa

           -0       [003] d..4.   561.132117: block_lat: pid=0 delta=413787 stack=STACK:
 => __schedule
 => schedule
 => schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock
 => do_sys_poll
 => __x64_sys_poll
 => do_syscall_64
 => 0x966000aa

            <...>-153     [006] d..4.   562.068407: block_lat: pid=153 delta=54 stack=STACK:
 => __schedule
 => schedule
 => io_schedule
 => rq_qos_wait
 => wbt_wait
 => __rq_qos_throttle
 => blk_mq_submit_bio
 => submit_bio_noacct_nocheck
 => ext4_bio_write_page
 => mpage_submit_page
 => mpage_process_page_bufs
 => mpage_prepare_extent_to_map
 => ext4_do_writepages
 => ext4_writepages
 => do_writepages
 => __writeback_single_inode

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230117152236.010941267@goodmis.org

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Ching-lin Yu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Stable-dep-of: 4d38328eb442 ("tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str fields")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tracing/histograms: Return an error if we fail to add histogram to hist_vars list

2023-07-27T06:44:43+00:00

commit 4b8b3905165ef98386a3c06f196c85d21292d029 upstream.

Commit 6018b585e8c6 ("tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if
they have referenced variables") added a check to fail histogram creation
if save_hist_vars() failed to add histogram to hist_vars list. But the
commit failed to set ret to failed return code before jumping to
unregister histogram, fix it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230714203341.51396-1-mkhalfella@purestorage.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6018b585e8c6 ("tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables")
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Khalfella 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables

2023-07-27T06:44:31+00:00

commit 6018b585e8c6fa7d85d4b38d9ce49a5b67be7078 upstream.

Hist triggers can have referenced variables without having direct
variables fields. This can be the case if referenced variables are added
for trigger actions. In this case the newly added references will not
have field variables. Not taking such referenced variables into
consideration can result in a bug where it would be possible to remove
hist trigger with variables being refenced. This will result in a bug
that is easily reproducable like so

$ cd /sys/kernel/tracing
$ echo 'synthetic_sys_enter char[] comm; long id' >> synthetic_events
$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' >> events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:onmatch(raw_syscalls.sys_enter).synthetic_sys_enter($comm, id)' >> events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
$ echo '!hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' >> events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger

[  100.263533] ==================================================================
[  100.264634] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180
[  100.265520] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810375d0f0 by task bash/439
[  100.266320]
[  100.266533] CPU: 2 PID: 439 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1 #4
[  100.267277] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-20220807_005459-localhost 04/01/2014
[  100.268561] Call Trace:
[  100.268902]  
[  100.269189]  dump_stack_lvl+0x4c/0x70
[  100.269680]  print_report+0xc5/0x600
[  100.270165]  ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180
[  100.270697]  ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x80/0x1f0
[  100.271389]  ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180
[  100.271913]  kasan_report+0xbd/0x100
[  100.272380]  ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180
[  100.272920]  __asan_load8+0x71/0xa0
[  100.273377]  resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180
[  100.273888]  event_hist_trigger+0x749/0x860
[  100.274505]  ? kasan_save_stack+0x2a/0x50
[  100.275024]  ? kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40
[  100.275536]  ? __pfx_event_hist_trigger+0x10/0x10
[  100.276138]  ? ksys_write+0xd1/0x170
[  100.276607]  ? do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x90
[  100.277099]  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
[  100.277771]  ? destroy_hist_data+0x446/0x470
[  100.278324]  ? event_hist_trigger_parse+0xa6c/0x3860
[  100.278962]  ? __pfx_event_hist_trigger_parse+0x10/0x10
[  100.279627]  ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20
[  100.280177]  ? mutex_unlock+0x85/0xd0
[  100.280660]  ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10
[  100.281200]  ? kfree+0x7b/0x120
[  100.281619]  ? ____kasan_slab_free+0x15d/0x1d0
[  100.282197]  ? event_trigger_write+0xac/0x100
[  100.282764]  ? __kasan_slab_free+0x16/0x20
[  100.283293]  ? __kmem_cache_free+0x153/0x2f0
[  100.283844]  ? sched_mm_cid_remote_clear+0xb1/0x250
[  100.284550]  ? __pfx_sched_mm_cid_remote_clear+0x10/0x10
[  100.285221]  ? event_trigger_write+0xbc/0x100
[  100.285781]  ? __kasan_check_read+0x15/0x20
[  100.286321]  ? __bitmap_weight+0x66/0xa0
[  100.286833]  ? _find_next_bit+0x46/0xe0
[  100.287334]  ? task_mm_cid_work+0x37f/0x450
[  100.287872]  event_triggers_call+0x84/0x150
[  100.288408]  trace_event_buffer_commit+0x339/0x430
[  100.289073]  ? ring_buffer_event_data+0x3f/0x60
[  100.292189]  trace_event_raw_event_sys_enter+0x8b/0xe0
[  100.295434]  syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x18f/0x1b0
[  100.298653]  syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x32/0x40
[  100.301808]  do_syscall_64+0x1a/0x90
[  100.304748]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
[  100.307775] RIP: 0033:0x7f686c75c1cb
[  100.310617] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 65 3c 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa b8 21 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 35 3c 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[  100.317847] RSP: 002b:00007ffc60137a38 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000021
[  100.321200] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055f566469ea0 RCX: 00007f686c75c1cb
[  100.324631] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 000000000000000a
[  100.328104] RBP: 00007ffc60137ac0 R08: 00007f686c818460 R09: 000000000000000a
[  100.331509] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000009
[  100.334992] R13: 0000000000000007 R14: 000000000000000a R15: 0000000000000007
[  100.338381]  

We hit the bug because when second hist trigger has was created
has_hist_vars() returned false because hist trigger did not have
variables. As a result of that save_hist_vars() was not called to add
the trigger to trace_array->hist_vars. Later on when we attempted to
remove the first histogram find_any_var_ref() failed to detect it is
being used because it did not find the second trigger in hist_vars list.

With this change we wait until trigger actions are created so we can take
into consideration if hist trigger has variable references. Also, now we
check the return value of save_hist_vars() and fail trigger creation if
save_hist_vars() fails.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230712223021.636335-1-mkhalfella@purestorage.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 067fe038e70f6 ("tracing: Add variable reference handling to hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Khalfella 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Check field value in hist_field_name()

2023-03-22T12:30:03+00:00

commit 9f116f76fa8c04c81aef33ad870dbf9a158e5b70 upstream.

The function hist_field_name() cannot handle being passed a NULL field
parameter. It should never be NULL, but due to a previous bug, NULL was
passed to the function and the kernel crashed due to a NULL dereference.
Mark Rutland reported this to me on IRC.

The bug was fixed, but to prevent future bugs from crashing the kernel,
check the field and add a WARN_ON() if it is NULL.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230302020810.762384440@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Reported-by: Mark Rutland 
Fixes: c6afad49d127f ("tracing: Add hist trigger 'sym' and 'sym-offset' modifiers")
Tested-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

trace_events_hist: add check for return value of 'create_hist_field'

2023-02-01T07:23:22+00:00

commit 8b152e9150d07a885f95e1fd401fc81af202d9a4 upstream.

Function 'create_hist_field' is called recursively at
trace_events_hist.c:1954 and can return NULL-value that's why we have
to check it to avoid null pointer dereference.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230111120409.4111-1-n.petrova@fintech.ru

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 30350d65ac56 ("tracing: Add variable support to hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Natalia Petrova 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing/hist: Fix wrong return value in parse_action_params()

2023-01-14T09:16:33+00:00

commit 2cc6a528882d0e0ccbc1bca5f95b8c963cedac54 upstream.

When number of synth fields is more than SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX,
parse_action_params() should return -EINVAL.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20221207034635.2253990-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c282a386a397 ("tracing: Add 'onmatch' hist trigger action support")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing/hist: Fix out-of-bound write on 'action_data.var_ref_idx'

2023-01-14T09:16:32+00:00

commit 82470f7d9044842618c847a7166de2b7458157a7 upstream.

When generate a synthetic event with many params and then create a trace
action for it [1], kernel panic happened [2].

It is because that in trace_action_create() 'data->n_params' is up to
SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX (current value is 64), and array 'data->var_ref_idx'
keeps indices into array 'hist_data->var_refs' for each synthetic event
param, but the length of 'data->var_ref_idx' is TRACING_MAP_VARS_MAX
(current value is 16), so out-of-bound write happened when 'data->n_params'
more than 16. In this case, 'data->match_data.event' is overwritten and
eventually cause the panic.

To solve the issue, adjust the length of 'data->var_ref_idx' to be
SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX and add sanity checks to avoid out-of-bound write.

[1]
 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
 # echo "my_synth_event int v1; int v2; int v3; int v4; int v5; int v6;\
int v7; int v8; int v9; int v10; int v11; int v12; int v13; int v14;\
int v15; int v16; int v17; int v18; int v19; int v20; int v21; int v22;\
int v23; int v24; int v25; int v26; int v27; int v28; int v29; int v30;\
int v31; int v32; int v33; int v34; int v35; int v36; int v37; int v38;\
int v39; int v40; int v41; int v42; int v43; int v44; int v45; int v46;\
int v47; int v48; int v49; int v50; int v51; int v52; int v53; int v54;\
int v55; int v56; int v57; int v58; int v59; int v60; int v61; int v62;\
int v63" >> synthetic_events
 # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs if comm=="bash"' >> \
events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
 # echo "hist:keys=next_pid:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).my_synth_event(\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid)" >> events/sched/sched_switch/trigger

[2]
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff91c900000000
PGD 61001067 P4D 61001067 PUD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 PID: 322 Comm: bash Tainted: G        W          6.1.0-rc8+ #229
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:strcmp+0xc/0x30
Code: 75 f7 31 d2 44 0f b6 04 16 44 88 04 11 48 83 c2 01 45 84 c0 75 ee
c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 31 c0 eb 08 48 83 c0 01 84 d2 74 13 <0f> b6 14
07 3a 14 06 74 ef 19 c0 83 c8 01 c3 cc cc cc cc 31 c3
RSP: 0018:ffff9b3b00f53c48 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffba958a68 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: ffff91c943d33a90 RDI: ffff91c900000000
RBP: ffff91c900000000 R08: 00000018d604b529 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff91c9483eddb1 R11: ffff91ca483eddab R12: ffff91c946171580
R13: ffff91c9479f0538 R14: ffff91c9457c2848 R15: ffff91c9479f0538
FS:  00007f1d1cfbe740(0000) GS:ffff91c9bdc80000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff91c900000000 CR3: 0000000006316000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
 
 __find_event_file+0x55/0x90
 action_create+0x76c/0x1060
 event_hist_trigger_parse+0x146d/0x2060
 ? event_trigger_write+0x31/0xd0
 trigger_process_regex+0xbb/0x110
 event_trigger_write+0x6b/0xd0
 vfs_write+0xc8/0x3e0
 ? alloc_fd+0xc0/0x160
 ? preempt_count_add+0x4d/0xa0
 ? preempt_count_add+0x70/0xa0
 ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f1d1d0cf077
Code: 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb bb 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e
fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00
f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74
RSP: 002b:00007ffcebb0e568 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000143 RCX: 00007f1d1d0cf077
RDX: 0000000000000143 RSI: 00005639265aa7e0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 00005639265aa7e0 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000142
R10: 000056392639c017 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000143
R13: 00007f1d1d1ae6a0 R14: 00007f1d1d1aa4a0 R15: 00007f1d1d1a98a0
 
Modules linked in:
CR2: ffff91c900000000
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:strcmp+0xc/0x30
Code: 75 f7 31 d2 44 0f b6 04 16 44 88 04 11 48 83 c2 01 45 84 c0 75 ee
c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 31 c0 eb 08 48 83 c0 01 84 d2 74 13 <0f> b6 14
07 3a 14 06 74 ef 19 c0 83 c8 01 c3 cc cc cc cc 31 c3
RSP: 0018:ffff9b3b00f53c48 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffba958a68 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: ffff91c943d33a90 RDI: ffff91c900000000
RBP: ffff91c900000000 R08: 00000018d604b529 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff91c9483eddb1 R11: ffff91ca483eddab R12: ffff91c946171580
R13: ffff91c9479f0538 R14: ffff91c9457c2848 R15: ffff91c9479f0538
FS:  00007f1d1cfbe740(0000) GS:ffff91c9bdc80000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff91c900000000 CR3: 0000000006316000 CR4: 00000000000006e0

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20221207035143.2278781-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d380dcde9a07 ("tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman