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<title>tracing: Properly process error handling in event_hist_trigger_parse()</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:19:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miaoqian Lin</name>
<email>linmq006@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-11T10:00:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0550069cc25f513ce1f109c88f7c1f01d63297db ]

Memory allocated with trigger_data_alloc() requires trigger_data_free()
for proper cleanup.

Replace kfree() with trigger_data_free() to fix this.

Found via static analysis and code review.

This isn't a real bug due to the current code basically being an open
coded version of trigger_data_free() without the synchronization. The
synchronization isn't needed as this is the error path of creation and
there's nothing to synchronize against yet. Replace the kfree() to be
consistent with the allocation.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211100058.2381268-1-linmq006@gmail.com
Fixes: e1f187d09e11 ("tracing: Have existing event_command.parse() implementations use helpers")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin &lt;linmq006@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0550069cc25f513ce1f109c88f7c1f01d63297db ]

Memory allocated with trigger_data_alloc() requires trigger_data_free()
for proper cleanup.

Replace kfree() with trigger_data_free() to fix this.

Found via static analysis and code review.

This isn't a real bug due to the current code basically being an open
coded version of trigger_data_free() without the synchronization. The
synchronization isn't needed as this is the error path of creation and
there's nothing to synchronize against yet. Replace the kfree() to be
consistent with the allocation.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211100058.2381268-1-linmq006@gmail.com
Fixes: e1f187d09e11 ("tracing: Have existing event_command.parse() implementations use helpers")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin &lt;linmq006@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix memory leaks in create_field_var()</title>
<updated>2025-12-06T21:12:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zilin Guan</name>
<email>zilin@seu.edu.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-06T12:01:32+00:00</published>
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[ 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-&gt;type and var-&gt;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-&gt;type and var-&gt;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 &lt;zilin@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ 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-&gt;type and var-&gt;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-&gt;type and var-&gt;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 &lt;zilin@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc()</title>
<updated>2025-06-27T10:07:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T14:53:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f2947c4b7d0f235621c5daf78aecfbd6e22c05e5 ]

The function event_trigger_alloc() creates an event_trigger_data
descriptor and states that it needs to be freed via event_trigger_free().
This is incorrect, it needs to be freed by trigger_data_free() as
event_trigger_free() adds ref counting.

Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc() and state that it
needs to be freed via trigger_data_free(). This naming convention
was introducing bugs.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250507145455.776436410@goodmis.org
Fixes: 86599dbe2c527 ("tracing: Add helper functions to simplify event_command.parse() callback handling")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f2947c4b7d0f235621c5daf78aecfbd6e22c05e5 ]

The function event_trigger_alloc() creates an event_trigger_data
descriptor and states that it needs to be freed via event_trigger_free().
This is incorrect, it needs to be freed by trigger_data_free() as
event_trigger_free() adds ref counting.

Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc() and state that it
needs to be freed via trigger_data_free(). This naming convention
was introducing bugs.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250507145455.776436410@goodmis.org
Fixes: 86599dbe2c527 ("tracing: Add helper functions to simplify event_command.parse() callback handling")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix bad hist from corrupting named_triggers list</title>
<updated>2025-03-07T15:56:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-27T21:39:44+00:00</published>
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commit 6f86bdeab633a56d5c6dccf1a2c5989b6a5e323e upstream.

The following commands causes a crash:

 ~# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/rcu/rcu_callback
 ~# echo 'hist:name=bad:keys=common_pid:onmax(bogus).save(common_pid)' &gt; trigger
 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 ~# echo 'hist:name=bad:keys=common_pid' &gt; trigger

Because the following occurs:

event_trigger_write() {
  trigger_process_regex() {
    event_hist_trigger_parse() {

      data = event_trigger_alloc(..);

      event_trigger_register(.., data) {
        cmd_ops-&gt;reg(.., data, ..) [hist_register_trigger()] {
          data-&gt;ops-&gt;init() [event_hist_trigger_init()] {
            save_named_trigger(name, data) {
              list_add(&amp;data-&gt;named_list, &amp;named_triggers);
            }
          }
        }
      }

      ret = create_actions(); (return -EINVAL)
      if (ret)
        goto out_unreg;
[..]
      ret = hist_trigger_enable(data, ...) {
        list_add_tail_rcu(&amp;data-&gt;list, &amp;file-&gt;triggers); &lt;&lt;&lt;---- SKIPPED!!! (this is important!)
[..]
 out_unreg:
      event_hist_unregister(.., data) {
        cmd_ops-&gt;unreg(.., data, ..) [hist_unregister_trigger()] {
          list_for_each_entry(iter, &amp;file-&gt;triggers, list) {
            if (!hist_trigger_match(data, iter, named_data, false))   &lt;- never matches
                continue;
            [..]
            test = iter;
          }
          if (test &amp;&amp; test-&gt;ops-&gt;free) &lt;&lt;&lt;-- test is NULL

            test-&gt;ops-&gt;free(test) [event_hist_trigger_free()] {
              [..]
              if (data-&gt;name)
                del_named_trigger(data) {
                  list_del(&amp;data-&gt;named_list);  &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;-- NEVER gets removed!
                }
              }
           }
         }

         [..]
         kfree(data); &lt;&lt;&lt;-- frees item but it is still on list

The next time a hist with name is registered, it causes an u-a-f bug and
the kernel can crash.

Move the code around such that if event_trigger_register() succeeds, the
next thing called is hist_trigger_enable() which adds it to the list.

A bunch of actions is called if get_named_trigger_data() returns false.
But that doesn't need to be called after event_trigger_register(), so it
can be moved up, allowing event_trigger_register() to be called just
before hist_trigger_enable() keeping them together and allowing the
file-&gt;triggers to be properly populated.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250227163944.1c37f85f@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 067fe038e70f6 ("tracing: Add variable reference handling to hist triggers")
Reported-by: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAP4=nvTsxjckSBTz=Oe_UYh8keD9_sZC4i++4h72mJLic4_W4A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 6f86bdeab633a56d5c6dccf1a2c5989b6a5e323e upstream.

The following commands causes a crash:

 ~# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/rcu/rcu_callback
 ~# echo 'hist:name=bad:keys=common_pid:onmax(bogus).save(common_pid)' &gt; trigger
 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 ~# echo 'hist:name=bad:keys=common_pid' &gt; trigger

Because the following occurs:

event_trigger_write() {
  trigger_process_regex() {
    event_hist_trigger_parse() {

      data = event_trigger_alloc(..);

      event_trigger_register(.., data) {
        cmd_ops-&gt;reg(.., data, ..) [hist_register_trigger()] {
          data-&gt;ops-&gt;init() [event_hist_trigger_init()] {
            save_named_trigger(name, data) {
              list_add(&amp;data-&gt;named_list, &amp;named_triggers);
            }
          }
        }
      }

      ret = create_actions(); (return -EINVAL)
      if (ret)
        goto out_unreg;
[..]
      ret = hist_trigger_enable(data, ...) {
        list_add_tail_rcu(&amp;data-&gt;list, &amp;file-&gt;triggers); &lt;&lt;&lt;---- SKIPPED!!! (this is important!)
[..]
 out_unreg:
      event_hist_unregister(.., data) {
        cmd_ops-&gt;unreg(.., data, ..) [hist_unregister_trigger()] {
          list_for_each_entry(iter, &amp;file-&gt;triggers, list) {
            if (!hist_trigger_match(data, iter, named_data, false))   &lt;- never matches
                continue;
            [..]
            test = iter;
          }
          if (test &amp;&amp; test-&gt;ops-&gt;free) &lt;&lt;&lt;-- test is NULL

            test-&gt;ops-&gt;free(test) [event_hist_trigger_free()] {
              [..]
              if (data-&gt;name)
                del_named_trigger(data) {
                  list_del(&amp;data-&gt;named_list);  &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;-- NEVER gets removed!
                }
              }
           }
         }

         [..]
         kfree(data); &lt;&lt;&lt;-- frees item but it is still on list

The next time a hist with name is registered, it causes an u-a-f bug and
the kernel can crash.

Move the code around such that if event_trigger_register() succeeds, the
next thing called is hist_trigger_enable() which adds it to the list.

A bunch of actions is called if get_named_trigger_data() returns false.
But that doesn't need to be called after event_trigger_register(), so it
can be moved up, allowing event_trigger_register() to be called just
before hist_trigger_enable() keeping them together and allowing the
file-&gt;triggers to be properly populated.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250227163944.1c37f85f@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 067fe038e70f6 ("tracing: Add variable reference handling to hist triggers")
Reported-by: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAP4=nvTsxjckSBTz=Oe_UYh8keD9_sZC4i++4h72mJLic4_W4A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix uaf issue when open the hist or hist_debug file</title>
<updated>2024-01-20T10:50:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zheng Yejian</name>
<email>zhengyejian1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-14T01:21:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1cc111b9cddc71ce161cd388f11f0e9048edffdb ]

KASAN report following issue. The root cause is when opening 'hist'
file of an instance and accessing 'trace_event_file' in hist_show(),
but 'trace_event_file' has been freed due to the instance being removed.
'hist_debug' file has the same problem. To fix it, call
tracing_{open,release}_file_tr() in file_operations callback to have
the ref count and avoid 'trace_event_file' being freed.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hist_show+0x11e0/0x1278
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff242541e336b8 by task head/190

  CPU: 4 PID: 190 Comm: head Not tainted 6.7.0-rc5-g26aff849438c #133
  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x98/0xf8
   show_stack+0x1c/0x30
   dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x58
   print_report+0xf0/0x5a0
   kasan_report+0x80/0xc0
   __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1c/0x28
   hist_show+0x11e0/0x1278
   seq_read_iter+0x344/0xd78
   seq_read+0x128/0x1c0
   vfs_read+0x198/0x6c8
   ksys_read+0xf4/0x1e0
   __arm64_sys_read+0x70/0xa8
   invoke_syscall+0x70/0x260
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x280
   do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
   el0_svc+0x34/0x68
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
   el0t_64_sync+0x168/0x170

  Allocated by task 188:
   kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x50
   kasan_set_track+0x28/0x38
   kasan_save_alloc_info+0x20/0x30
   __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80
   kmem_cache_alloc+0x15c/0x4a8
   trace_create_new_event+0x84/0x348
   __trace_add_new_event+0x18/0x88
   event_trace_add_tracer+0xc4/0x1a0
   trace_array_create_dir+0x6c/0x100
   trace_array_create+0x2e8/0x568
   instance_mkdir+0x48/0x80
   tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x90/0xe8
   vfs_mkdir+0x3c4/0x610
   do_mkdirat+0x144/0x200
   __arm64_sys_mkdirat+0x8c/0xc0
   invoke_syscall+0x70/0x260
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x280
   do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
   el0_svc+0x34/0x68
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
   el0t_64_sync+0x168/0x170

  Freed by task 191:
   kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x50
   kasan_set_track+0x28/0x38
   kasan_save_free_info+0x34/0x58
   __kasan_slab_free+0xe4/0x158
   kmem_cache_free+0x19c/0x508
   event_file_put+0xa0/0x120
   remove_event_file_dir+0x180/0x320
   event_trace_del_tracer+0xb0/0x180
   __remove_instance+0x224/0x508
   instance_rmdir+0x44/0x78
   tracefs_syscall_rmdir+0xbc/0x140
   vfs_rmdir+0x1cc/0x4c8
   do_rmdir+0x220/0x2b8
   __arm64_sys_unlinkat+0xc0/0x100
   invoke_syscall+0x70/0x260
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x280
   do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
   el0_svc+0x34/0x68
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
   el0t_64_sync+0x168/0x170

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231214012153.676155-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1cc111b9cddc71ce161cd388f11f0e9048edffdb ]

KASAN report following issue. The root cause is when opening 'hist'
file of an instance and accessing 'trace_event_file' in hist_show(),
but 'trace_event_file' has been freed due to the instance being removed.
'hist_debug' file has the same problem. To fix it, call
tracing_{open,release}_file_tr() in file_operations callback to have
the ref count and avoid 'trace_event_file' being freed.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hist_show+0x11e0/0x1278
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff242541e336b8 by task head/190

  CPU: 4 PID: 190 Comm: head Not tainted 6.7.0-rc5-g26aff849438c #133
  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x98/0xf8
   show_stack+0x1c/0x30
   dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x58
   print_report+0xf0/0x5a0
   kasan_report+0x80/0xc0
   __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1c/0x28
   hist_show+0x11e0/0x1278
   seq_read_iter+0x344/0xd78
   seq_read+0x128/0x1c0
   vfs_read+0x198/0x6c8
   ksys_read+0xf4/0x1e0
   __arm64_sys_read+0x70/0xa8
   invoke_syscall+0x70/0x260
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x280
   do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
   el0_svc+0x34/0x68
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
   el0t_64_sync+0x168/0x170

  Allocated by task 188:
   kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x50
   kasan_set_track+0x28/0x38
   kasan_save_alloc_info+0x20/0x30
   __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80
   kmem_cache_alloc+0x15c/0x4a8
   trace_create_new_event+0x84/0x348
   __trace_add_new_event+0x18/0x88
   event_trace_add_tracer+0xc4/0x1a0
   trace_array_create_dir+0x6c/0x100
   trace_array_create+0x2e8/0x568
   instance_mkdir+0x48/0x80
   tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x90/0xe8
   vfs_mkdir+0x3c4/0x610
   do_mkdirat+0x144/0x200
   __arm64_sys_mkdirat+0x8c/0xc0
   invoke_syscall+0x70/0x260
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x280
   do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
   el0_svc+0x34/0x68
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
   el0t_64_sync+0x168/0x170

  Freed by task 191:
   kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x50
   kasan_set_track+0x28/0x38
   kasan_save_free_info+0x34/0x58
   __kasan_slab_free+0xe4/0x158
   kmem_cache_free+0x19c/0x508
   event_file_put+0xa0/0x120
   remove_event_file_dir+0x180/0x320
   event_trace_del_tracer+0xb0/0x180
   __remove_instance+0x224/0x508
   instance_rmdir+0x44/0x78
   tracefs_syscall_rmdir+0xbc/0x140
   vfs_rmdir+0x1cc/0x4c8
   do_rmdir+0x220/0x2b8
   __arm64_sys_unlinkat+0xc0/0x100
   invoke_syscall+0x70/0x260
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x280
   do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
   el0_svc+0x34/0x68
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
   el0t_64_sync+0x168/0x170

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231214012153.676155-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Allow synthetic events to pass around stacktraces</title>
<updated>2023-08-03T08:23:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-17T15:21:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=f3baa42afeea0d5f04ad31525e861199d02210cc'/>
<id>f3baa42afeea0d5f04ad31525e861199d02210cc</id>
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[ 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;' &gt; dynamic_events
 # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:ts=common_timestamp.usecs,st=stacktrace  if prev_state == 1||prev_state == 2' &gt; 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)' &gt;&gt; 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 &gt; 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:
 =&gt; __schedule
 =&gt; schedule
 =&gt; pipe_read
 =&gt; vfs_read
 =&gt; ksys_read
 =&gt; do_syscall_64
 =&gt; 0x966000aa

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

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

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

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ching-lin Yu &lt;chinglinyu@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 797311bce5c2 ("tracing/probes: Fix to record 0-length data_loc in fetch_store_string*() if fails")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
[ 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;' &gt; dynamic_events
 # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:ts=common_timestamp.usecs,st=stacktrace  if prev_state == 1||prev_state == 2' &gt; 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)' &gt;&gt; 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 &gt; 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:
 =&gt; __schedule
 =&gt; schedule
 =&gt; pipe_read
 =&gt; vfs_read
 =&gt; ksys_read
 =&gt; do_syscall_64
 =&gt; 0x966000aa

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

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

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

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ching-lin Yu &lt;chinglinyu@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 797311bce5c2 ("tracing/probes: Fix to record 0-length data_loc in fetch_store_string*() if fails")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/histograms: Return an error if we fail to add histogram to hist_vars list</title>
<updated>2023-07-27T06:50:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mohamed Khalfella</name>
<email>mkhalfella@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-14T20:33:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=61622fa3791495129b27c71a25f3184a8c332c8c'/>
<id>61622fa3791495129b27c71a25f3184a8c332c8c</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;mkhalfella@purestorage.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
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 &lt;mkhalfella@purestorage.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables</title>
<updated>2023-07-23T11:49:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mohamed Khalfella</name>
<email>mkhalfella@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-12T22:30:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=5fd32eb6fa0ac795aa5a64bc004ab68d7b44196a'/>
<id>5fd32eb6fa0ac795aa5a64bc004ab68d7b44196a</id>
<content type='text'>
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' &gt;&gt; synthetic_events
$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' &gt;&gt; events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:onmatch(raw_syscalls.sys_enter).synthetic_sys_enter($comm, id)' &gt;&gt; events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
$ echo '!hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' &gt;&gt; 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]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[  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 &lt;48&gt; 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]  &lt;/TASK&gt;

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-&gt;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 &lt;mkhalfella@purestorage.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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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' &gt;&gt; synthetic_events
$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' &gt;&gt; events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:onmatch(raw_syscalls.sys_enter).synthetic_sys_enter($comm, id)' &gt;&gt; events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
$ echo '!hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' &gt;&gt; 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]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[  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 &lt;48&gt; 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]  &lt;/TASK&gt;

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-&gt;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 &lt;mkhalfella@purestorage.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>tracing/histograms: Allow variables to have some modifiers</title>
<updated>2023-06-09T08:34:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-24T02:11:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=7403630eb94c1d664fb873f967427ef2f6ee3699'/>
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commit e30fbc618e97b38dbb49f1d44dcd0778d3f23b8c upstream.

Modifiers are used to change the behavior of keys. For instance, they
can grouped into buckets, converted to syscall names (from the syscall
identifier), show task-&gt;comm of the current pid, be an array of longs
that represent a stacktrace, and more.

It was found that nothing stopped a value from taking a modifier. As
values are simple counters. If this happened, it would call code that
was not expecting a modifier and crash the kernel. This was fixed by
having the ___create_val_field() function test if a modifier was present
and fail if one was. This fixed the crash.

Now there's a problem with variables. Variables are used to pass fields
from one event to another. Variables are allowed to have some modifiers,
as the processing may need to happen at the time of the event (like
stacktraces and comm names of the current pid). The issue is that it too
uses __create_val_field(). Now that fails on modifiers, variables can no
longer use them (this is a regression).

As not all modifiers are for variables, have them use a separate check.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230523221108.064a5d82@rorschach.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: e0213434fe3e4 ("tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit e30fbc618e97b38dbb49f1d44dcd0778d3f23b8c upstream.

Modifiers are used to change the behavior of keys. For instance, they
can grouped into buckets, converted to syscall names (from the syscall
identifier), show task-&gt;comm of the current pid, be an array of longs
that represent a stacktrace, and more.

It was found that nothing stopped a value from taking a modifier. As
values are simple counters. If this happened, it would call code that
was not expecting a modifier and crash the kernel. This was fixed by
having the ___create_val_field() function test if a modifier was present
and fail if one was. This fixed the crash.

Now there's a problem with variables. Variables are used to pass fields
from one event to another. Variables are allowed to have some modifiers,
as the processing may need to happen at the time of the event (like
stacktraces and comm names of the current pid). The issue is that it too
uses __create_val_field(). Now that fails on modifiers, variables can no
longer use them (this is a regression).

As not all modifiers are for variables, have them use a separate check.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230523221108.064a5d82@rorschach.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: e0213434fe3e4 ("tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers</title>
<updated>2023-04-06T10:10:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-02T01:00:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e0213434fe3e4a0d118923dc98d31e7ff1cd9e45 ]

Histogram values can not be strings, stacktraces, graphs, symbols,
syscalls, or grouped in buckets or log. Give an error if a value is set to
do so.

Note, the histogram code was not prepared to handle these modifiers for
histograms and caused a bug.

Mark Rutland reported:

 # echo 'p:copy_to_user __arch_copy_to_user n=$arg2' &gt;&gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events
 # echo 'hist:keys=n:vals=hitcount.buckets=8:sort=hitcount' &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kprobes/copy_to_user/trigger
 # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kprobes/copy_to_user/hist
[  143.694628] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[  143.695190] Mem abort info:
[  143.695362]   ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[  143.695604]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[  143.695889]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[  143.696077]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[  143.696302]   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[  143.702381] Data abort info:
[  143.702614]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[  143.702832]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
[  143.703087] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000448f9000
[  143.703407] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[  143.704137] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[  143.704714] Modules linked in:
[  143.705273] CPU: 0 PID: 133 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.2.0-00003-g6fc512c10a7c #3
[  143.706138] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[  143.706723] pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[  143.707120] pc : hist_field_name.part.0+0x14/0x140
[  143.707504] lr : hist_field_name.part.0+0x104/0x140
[  143.707774] sp : ffff800008333a30
[  143.707952] x29: ffff800008333a30 x28: 0000000000000001 x27: 0000000000400cc0
[  143.708429] x26: ffffd7a653b20260 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff10d303ee5800
[  143.708776] x23: ffffd7a6539b27b0 x22: ffff10d303fb8c00 x21: 0000000000000001
[  143.709127] x20: ffff10d303ec2000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000000
[  143.709478] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
[  143.709824] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 203a6f666e692072 x12: 6567676972742023
[  143.710179] x11: 0a230a6d6172676f x10: 000000000000002c x9 : ffffd7a6521e018c
[  143.710584] x8 : 000000000000002c x7 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x6 : 000000000000002c
[  143.710915] x5 : ffff10d303b0103e x4 : ffffd7a653b20261 x3 : 000000000000003d
[  143.711239] x2 : 0000000000020001 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : 0000000000000000
[  143.711746] Call trace:
[  143.712115]  hist_field_name.part.0+0x14/0x140
[  143.712642]  hist_field_name.part.0+0x104/0x140
[  143.712925]  hist_field_print+0x28/0x140
[  143.713125]  event_hist_trigger_print+0x174/0x4d0
[  143.713348]  hist_show+0xf8/0x980
[  143.713521]  seq_read_iter+0x1bc/0x4b0
[  143.713711]  seq_read+0x8c/0xc4
[  143.713876]  vfs_read+0xc8/0x2a4
[  143.714043]  ksys_read+0x70/0xfc
[  143.714218]  __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x30
[  143.714400]  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
[  143.714587]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x4c/0x100
[  143.714807]  do_el0_svc+0x44/0xd0
[  143.714970]  el0_svc+0x2c/0x84
[  143.715134]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xbc/0x140
[  143.715334]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
[  143.715742] Code: a9bd7bfd 910003fd a90153f3 aa0003f3 (f9400000)
[  143.716510] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Segmentation fault

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230302020810.559462599@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: c6afad49d127f ("tracing: Add hist trigger 'sym' and 'sym-offset' modifiers")
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e0213434fe3e4a0d118923dc98d31e7ff1cd9e45 ]

Histogram values can not be strings, stacktraces, graphs, symbols,
syscalls, or grouped in buckets or log. Give an error if a value is set to
do so.

Note, the histogram code was not prepared to handle these modifiers for
histograms and caused a bug.

Mark Rutland reported:

 # echo 'p:copy_to_user __arch_copy_to_user n=$arg2' &gt;&gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events
 # echo 'hist:keys=n:vals=hitcount.buckets=8:sort=hitcount' &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kprobes/copy_to_user/trigger
 # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kprobes/copy_to_user/hist
[  143.694628] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[  143.695190] Mem abort info:
[  143.695362]   ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[  143.695604]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[  143.695889]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[  143.696077]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[  143.696302]   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[  143.702381] Data abort info:
[  143.702614]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[  143.702832]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
[  143.703087] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000448f9000
[  143.703407] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[  143.704137] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[  143.704714] Modules linked in:
[  143.705273] CPU: 0 PID: 133 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.2.0-00003-g6fc512c10a7c #3
[  143.706138] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[  143.706723] pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[  143.707120] pc : hist_field_name.part.0+0x14/0x140
[  143.707504] lr : hist_field_name.part.0+0x104/0x140
[  143.707774] sp : ffff800008333a30
[  143.707952] x29: ffff800008333a30 x28: 0000000000000001 x27: 0000000000400cc0
[  143.708429] x26: ffffd7a653b20260 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff10d303ee5800
[  143.708776] x23: ffffd7a6539b27b0 x22: ffff10d303fb8c00 x21: 0000000000000001
[  143.709127] x20: ffff10d303ec2000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000000
[  143.709478] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
[  143.709824] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 203a6f666e692072 x12: 6567676972742023
[  143.710179] x11: 0a230a6d6172676f x10: 000000000000002c x9 : ffffd7a6521e018c
[  143.710584] x8 : 000000000000002c x7 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x6 : 000000000000002c
[  143.710915] x5 : ffff10d303b0103e x4 : ffffd7a653b20261 x3 : 000000000000003d
[  143.711239] x2 : 0000000000020001 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : 0000000000000000
[  143.711746] Call trace:
[  143.712115]  hist_field_name.part.0+0x14/0x140
[  143.712642]  hist_field_name.part.0+0x104/0x140
[  143.712925]  hist_field_print+0x28/0x140
[  143.713125]  event_hist_trigger_print+0x174/0x4d0
[  143.713348]  hist_show+0xf8/0x980
[  143.713521]  seq_read_iter+0x1bc/0x4b0
[  143.713711]  seq_read+0x8c/0xc4
[  143.713876]  vfs_read+0xc8/0x2a4
[  143.714043]  ksys_read+0x70/0xfc
[  143.714218]  __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x30
[  143.714400]  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
[  143.714587]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x4c/0x100
[  143.714807]  do_el0_svc+0x44/0xd0
[  143.714970]  el0_svc+0x2c/0x84
[  143.715134]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xbc/0x140
[  143.715334]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
[  143.715742] Code: a9bd7bfd 910003fd a90153f3 aa0003f3 (f9400000)
[  143.716510] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Segmentation fault

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230302020810.559462599@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: c6afad49d127f ("tracing: Add hist trigger 'sym' and 'sym-offset' modifiers")
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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