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<title>linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c, branch v6.12.80</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers</title>
<updated>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</published>
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-user-events-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2024-05-18T01:46:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-18T01:46:30+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing user-event updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Minor update to the user_events interface

  The ABI of creating a user event states that the fields are separated
  by semicolons, and spaces should be ignored.

  But the parsing expected at least one space to be there (which was
  incorrect). Fix the reading of the string to handle fields separated
  by semicolons but no space between them.

  This does extend the API sightly as now "field;field" will now be
  parsed and not cause an error. But it should not cause any regressions
  as no logic should expect it to fail.

  Note, that the logic that parses the event fields to create the
  trace_event works with no spaces after the semi-colon. It is
  the logic that tests against existing events that is inconsistent.
  This causes registering an event without using spaces to succeed
  if it doesn't exist, but makes the same call that tries to register
  to the same event, but doesn't use spaces, fail.

* tag 'trace-user-events-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  selftests/user_events: Add non-spacing separator check
  tracing/user_events: Fix non-spaced field matching
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Pull tracing user-event updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Minor update to the user_events interface

  The ABI of creating a user event states that the fields are separated
  by semicolons, and spaces should be ignored.

  But the parsing expected at least one space to be there (which was
  incorrect). Fix the reading of the string to handle fields separated
  by semicolons but no space between them.

  This does extend the API sightly as now "field;field" will now be
  parsed and not cause an error. But it should not cause any regressions
  as no logic should expect it to fail.

  Note, that the logic that parses the event fields to create the
  trace_event works with no spaces after the semi-colon. It is
  the logic that tests against existing events that is inconsistent.
  This causes registering an event without using spaces to succeed
  if it doesn't exist, but makes the same call that tries to register
  to the same event, but doesn't use spaces, fail.

* tag 'trace-user-events-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  selftests/user_events: Add non-spacing separator check
  tracing/user_events: Fix non-spaced field matching
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<entry>
<title>tracing/user_events: Fix non-spaced field matching</title>
<updated>2024-05-13T16:15:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Beau Belgrave</name>
<email>beaub@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-23T16:23:37+00:00</published>
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When the ABI was updated to prevent same name w/different args, it
missed an important corner case when fields don't end with a space.
Typically, space is used for fields to help separate them, like
"u8 field1; u8 field2". If no spaces are used, like
"u8 field1;u8 field2", then the parsing works for the first time.
However, the match check fails on a subsequent register, leading to
confusion.

This is because the match check uses argv_split() and assumes that all
fields will be split upon the space. When spaces are used, we get back
{ "u8", "field1;" }, without spaces we get back { "u8", "field1;u8" }.
This causes a mismatch, and the user program gets back -EADDRINUSE.

Add a method to detect this case before calling argv_split(). If found
force a space after the field separator character ';'. This ensures all
cases work properly for matching.

With this fix, the following are all treated as matching:
u8 field1;u8 field2
u8 field1; u8 field2
u8 field1;\tu8 field2
u8 field1;\nu8 field2

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240423162338.292-2-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Fixes: ba470eebc2f6 ("tracing/user_events: Prevent same name but different args event")
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When the ABI was updated to prevent same name w/different args, it
missed an important corner case when fields don't end with a space.
Typically, space is used for fields to help separate them, like
"u8 field1; u8 field2". If no spaces are used, like
"u8 field1;u8 field2", then the parsing works for the first time.
However, the match check fails on a subsequent register, leading to
confusion.

This is because the match check uses argv_split() and assumes that all
fields will be split upon the space. When spaces are used, we get back
{ "u8", "field1;" }, without spaces we get back { "u8", "field1;u8" }.
This causes a mismatch, and the user program gets back -EADDRINUSE.

Add a method to detect this case before calling argv_split(). If found
force a space after the field separator character ';'. This ensures all
cases work properly for matching.

With this fix, the following are all treated as matching:
u8 field1;u8 field2
u8 field1; u8 field2
u8 field1;\tu8 field2
u8 field1;\nu8 field2

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240423162338.292-2-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Fixes: ba470eebc2f6 ("tracing/user_events: Prevent same name but different args event")
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array</title>
<updated>2024-04-24T07:43:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T13:30:23+00:00</published>
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel elements from ftrace_sysctls and user_event_sysctls

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel elements from ftrace_sysctls and user_event_sysctls

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/user_events: Introduce multi-format events</title>
<updated>2024-03-18T14:13:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Beau Belgrave</name>
<email>beaub@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-22T00:18:05+00:00</published>
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Currently user_events supports 1 event with the same name and must have
the exact same format when referenced by multiple programs. This opens
an opportunity for malicious or poorly thought through programs to
create events that others use with different formats. Another scenario
is user programs wishing to use the same event name but add more fields
later when the software updates. Various versions of a program may be
running side-by-side, which is prevented by the current single format
requirement.

Add a new register flag (USER_EVENT_REG_MULTI_FORMAT) which indicates
the user program wishes to use the same user_event name, but may have
several different formats of the event. When this flag is used, create
the underlying tracepoint backing the user_event with a unique name
per-version of the format. It's important that existing ABI users do
not get this logic automatically, even if one of the multi format
events matches the format. This ensures existing programs that create
events and assume the tracepoint name will match exactly continue to
work as expected. Add logic to only check multi-format events with
other multi-format events and single-format events to only check
single-format events during find.

Change system name of the multi-format event tracepoint to ensure that
multi-format events are isolated completely from single-format events.
This prevents single-format names from conflicting with multi-format
events if they end with the same suffix as the multi-format events.

Add a register_name (reg_name) to the user_event struct which allows for
split naming of events. We now have the name that was used to register
within user_events as well as the unique name for the tracepoint. Upon
registering events ensure matches based on first the reg_name, followed
by the fields and format of the event. This allows for multiple events
with the same registered name to have different formats. The underlying
tracepoint will have a unique name in the format of {reg_name}.{unique_id}.

For example, if both "test u32 value" and "test u64 value" are used with
the USER_EVENT_REG_MULTI_FORMAT the system would have 2 unique
tracepoints. The dynamic_events file would then show the following:
  u:test u64 count
  u:test u32 count

The actual tracepoint names look like this:
  test.0
  test.1

Both would be under the new user_events_multi system name to prevent the
older ABI from being used to squat on multi-formatted events and block
their use.

Deleting events via "!u:test u64 count" would only delete the first
tracepoint that matched that format. When the delete ABI is used all
events with the same name will be attempted to be deleted. If
per-version deletion is required, user programs should either not use
persistent events or delete them via dynamic_events.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240222001807.1463-3-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Currently user_events supports 1 event with the same name and must have
the exact same format when referenced by multiple programs. This opens
an opportunity for malicious or poorly thought through programs to
create events that others use with different formats. Another scenario
is user programs wishing to use the same event name but add more fields
later when the software updates. Various versions of a program may be
running side-by-side, which is prevented by the current single format
requirement.

Add a new register flag (USER_EVENT_REG_MULTI_FORMAT) which indicates
the user program wishes to use the same user_event name, but may have
several different formats of the event. When this flag is used, create
the underlying tracepoint backing the user_event with a unique name
per-version of the format. It's important that existing ABI users do
not get this logic automatically, even if one of the multi format
events matches the format. This ensures existing programs that create
events and assume the tracepoint name will match exactly continue to
work as expected. Add logic to only check multi-format events with
other multi-format events and single-format events to only check
single-format events during find.

Change system name of the multi-format event tracepoint to ensure that
multi-format events are isolated completely from single-format events.
This prevents single-format names from conflicting with multi-format
events if they end with the same suffix as the multi-format events.

Add a register_name (reg_name) to the user_event struct which allows for
split naming of events. We now have the name that was used to register
within user_events as well as the unique name for the tracepoint. Upon
registering events ensure matches based on first the reg_name, followed
by the fields and format of the event. This allows for multiple events
with the same registered name to have different formats. The underlying
tracepoint will have a unique name in the format of {reg_name}.{unique_id}.

For example, if both "test u32 value" and "test u64 value" are used with
the USER_EVENT_REG_MULTI_FORMAT the system would have 2 unique
tracepoints. The dynamic_events file would then show the following:
  u:test u64 count
  u:test u32 count

The actual tracepoint names look like this:
  test.0
  test.1

Both would be under the new user_events_multi system name to prevent the
older ABI from being used to squat on multi-formatted events and block
their use.

Deleting events via "!u:test u64 count" would only delete the first
tracepoint that matched that format. When the delete ABI is used all
events with the same name will be attempted to be deleted. If
per-version deletion is required, user programs should either not use
persistent events or delete them via dynamic_events.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240222001807.1463-3-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/user_events: Prepare find/delete for same name events</title>
<updated>2024-03-18T14:12:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Beau Belgrave</name>
<email>beaub@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-22T00:18:04+00:00</published>
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The current code for finding and deleting events assumes that there will
never be cases when user_events are registered with the same name, but
different formats. Scenarios exist where programs want to use the same
name but have different formats. An example is multiple versions of a
program running side-by-side using the same event name, but with updated
formats in each version.

This change does not yet allow for multi-format events. If user_events
are registered with the same name but different arguments the programs
see the same return values as before. This change simply makes it
possible to easily accommodate for this.

Update find_user_event() to take in argument parameters and register
flags to accommodate future multi-format event scenarios. Have find
validate argument matching and return error pointers to cover when
an existing event has the same name but different format. Update
callers to handle error pointer logic.

Move delete_user_event() to use hash walking directly now that
find_user_event() has changed. Delete all events found that match the
register name, stop if an error occurs and report back to the user.

Update user_fields_match() to cover list_empty() scenarios now that
find_user_event() uses it directly. This makes the logic consistent
across several callsites.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240222001807.1463-2-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The current code for finding and deleting events assumes that there will
never be cases when user_events are registered with the same name, but
different formats. Scenarios exist where programs want to use the same
name but have different formats. An example is multiple versions of a
program running side-by-side using the same event name, but with updated
formats in each version.

This change does not yet allow for multi-format events. If user_events
are registered with the same name but different arguments the programs
see the same return values as before. This change simply makes it
possible to easily accommodate for this.

Update find_user_event() to take in argument parameters and register
flags to accommodate future multi-format event scenarios. Have find
validate argument matching and return error pointers to cover when
an existing event has the same name but different format. Update
callers to handle error pointer logic.

Move delete_user_event() to use hash walking directly now that
find_user_event() has changed. Delete all events found that match the
register name, stop if an error occurs and report back to the user.

Update user_fields_match() to cover list_empty() scenarios now that
find_user_event() uses it directly. This makes the logic consistent
across several callsites.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240222001807.1463-2-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>iov_iter: replace import_single_range() with import_ubuf()</title>
<updated>2023-12-05T10:57:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-04T17:47:50+00:00</published>
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With the removal of the 'iov' argument to import_single_range(), the two
functions are now fully identical. Convert the import_single_range()
callers to import_ubuf(), and remove the former fully.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204174827.1258875-3-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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With the removal of the 'iov' argument to import_single_range(), the two
functions are now fully identical. Convert the import_single_range()
callers to import_ubuf(), and remove the former fully.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204174827.1258875-3-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>iov_iter: remove unused 'iov' argument from import_single_range()</title>
<updated>2023-12-05T10:57:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-04T17:47:49+00:00</published>
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It is entirely unused, just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204174827.1258875-2-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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It is entirely unused, just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204174827.1258875-2-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing/user_events: Allow events to persist for perfmon_capable users</title>
<updated>2023-10-04T02:29:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Beau Belgrave</name>
<email>beaub@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-12T18:07:02+00:00</published>
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There are several scenarios that have come up where having a user_event
persist even if the process that registered it exits. The main one is
having a daemon create events on bootup that shouldn't get deleted if
the daemon has to exit or reload. Another is within OpenTelemetry
exporters, they wish to potentially check if a user_event exists on the
system to determine if exporting the data out should occur. The
user_event in this case must exist even in the absence of the owning
process running (such as the above daemon case).

Expose the previously internal flag USER_EVENT_REG_PERSIST to user
processes. Upon register or delete of events with this flag, ensure the
user is perfmon_capable to prevent random user processes with access to
tracefs from creating events that persist after exit.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230912180704.1284-2-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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There are several scenarios that have come up where having a user_event
persist even if the process that registered it exits. The main one is
having a daemon create events on bootup that shouldn't get deleted if
the daemon has to exit or reload. Another is within OpenTelemetry
exporters, they wish to potentially check if a user_event exists on the
system to determine if exporting the data out should occur. The
user_event in this case must exist even in the absence of the owning
process running (such as the above daemon case).

Expose the previously internal flag USER_EVENT_REG_PERSIST to user
processes. Upon register or delete of events with this flag, ensure the
user is perfmon_capable to prevent random user processes with access to
tracefs from creating events that persist after exit.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230912180704.1284-2-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/user_events: Align set_bit() address for all archs</title>
<updated>2023-09-30T20:25:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Beau Belgrave</name>
<email>beaub@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-25T23:08:28+00:00</published>
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All architectures should use a long aligned address passed to set_bit().
User processes can pass either a 32-bit or 64-bit sized value to be
updated when tracing is enabled when on a 64-bit kernel. Both cases are
ensured to be naturally aligned, however, that is not enough. The
address must be long aligned without affecting checks on the value
within the user process which require different adjustments for the bit
for little and big endian CPUs.

Add a compat flag to user_event_enabler that indicates when a 32-bit
value is being used on a 64-bit kernel. Long align addresses and correct
the bit to be used by set_bit() to account for this alignment. Ensure
compat flags are copied during forks and used during deletion clears.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230925230829.341-2-beaub@linux.microsoft.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230914131102.179100-1-cleger@rivosinc.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7235759084a4 ("tracing/user_events: Use remote writes for event enablement")
Reported-by: Clément Léger &lt;cleger@rivosinc.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Clément Léger &lt;cleger@rivosinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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All architectures should use a long aligned address passed to set_bit().
User processes can pass either a 32-bit or 64-bit sized value to be
updated when tracing is enabled when on a 64-bit kernel. Both cases are
ensured to be naturally aligned, however, that is not enough. The
address must be long aligned without affecting checks on the value
within the user process which require different adjustments for the bit
for little and big endian CPUs.

Add a compat flag to user_event_enabler that indicates when a 32-bit
value is being used on a 64-bit kernel. Long align addresses and correct
the bit to be used by set_bit() to account for this alignment. Ensure
compat flags are copied during forks and used during deletion clears.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230925230829.341-2-beaub@linux.microsoft.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230914131102.179100-1-cleger@rivosinc.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7235759084a4 ("tracing/user_events: Use remote writes for event enablement")
Reported-by: Clément Léger &lt;cleger@rivosinc.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Clément Léger &lt;cleger@rivosinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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