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

tracing: Fix use-after-free in print_graph_function_flags during tracer switching

2025-04-10T12:31:02+00:00

commit 7f81f27b1093e4895e87b74143c59c055c3b1906 upstream.

Kairui reported a UAF issue in print_graph_function_flags() during
ftrace stress testing [1]. This issue can be reproduced if puting a
'mdelay(10)' after 'mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock)' in s_start(),
and executing the following script:

  $ echo function_graph > current_tracer
  $ cat trace > /dev/null &
  $ sleep 5  # Ensure the 'cat' reaches the 'mdelay(10)' point
  $ echo timerlat > current_tracer

The root cause lies in the two calls to print_graph_function_flags
within print_trace_line during each s_show():

  * One through 'iter->trace->print_line()';
  * Another through 'event->funcs->trace()', which is hidden in
    print_trace_fmt() before print_trace_line returns.

Tracer switching only updates the former, while the latter continues
to use the print_line function of the old tracer, which in the script
above is print_graph_function_flags.

Moreover, when switching from the 'function_graph' tracer to the
'timerlat' tracer, s_start only calls graph_trace_close of the
'function_graph' tracer to free 'iter->private', but does not set
it to NULL. This provides an opportunity for 'event->funcs->trace()'
to use an invalid 'iter->private'.

To fix this issue, set 'iter->private' to NULL immediately after
freeing it in graph_trace_close(), ensuring that an invalid pointer
is not passed to other tracers. Additionally, clean up the unnecessary
'iter->private = NULL' during each 'cat trace' when using wakeup and
irqsoff tracers.

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231112150030.84609-1-ryncsn@gmail.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Zheng Yejian 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250320122137.23635-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: eecb91b9f98d ("tracing: Fix memleak due to race between current_tracer and trace")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMgjq7BW79KDSCyp+tZHjShSzHsScSiJxn5ffskp-QzVM06fxw@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Kairui Song 
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix memleak due to race between current_tracer and trace

2023-08-30T14:23:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit eecb91b9f98d6427d4af5fdb8f108f52572a39e7 ]

Kmemleak report a leak in graph_trace_open():

  unreferenced object 0xffff0040b95f4a00 (size 128):
    comm "cat", pid 204981, jiffies 4301155872 (age 99771.964s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      e0 05 e7 b4 ab 7d 00 00 0b 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 .....}..........
      f4 00 01 10 00 a0 ff ff 00 00 00 00 65 00 10 00 ............e...
    backtrace:
      [<000000005db27c8b>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x348/0x5f0
      [<000000007df90faa>] graph_trace_open+0xb0/0x344
      [<00000000737524cd>] __tracing_open+0x450/0xb10
      [<0000000098043327>] tracing_open+0x1a0/0x2a0
      [<00000000291c3876>] do_dentry_open+0x3c0/0xdc0
      [<000000004015bcd6>] vfs_open+0x98/0xd0
      [<000000002b5f60c9>] do_open+0x520/0x8d0
      [<00000000376c7820>] path_openat+0x1c0/0x3e0
      [<00000000336a54b5>] do_filp_open+0x14c/0x324
      [<000000002802df13>] do_sys_openat2+0x2c4/0x530
      [<0000000094eea458>] __arm64_sys_openat+0x130/0x1c4
      [<00000000a71d7881>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xfc/0x394
      [<00000000313647bf>] do_el0_svc+0xac/0xec
      [<000000002ef1c651>] el0_svc+0x20/0x30
      [<000000002fd4692a>] el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
      [<000000000c309c35>] el0_sync+0x160/0x180

The root cause is descripted as follows:

  __tracing_open() {  // 1. File 'trace' is being opened;
    ...
    *iter->trace = *tr->current_trace;  // 2. Tracer 'function_graph' is
                                        //    currently set;
    ...
    iter->trace->open(iter);  // 3. Call graph_trace_open() here,
                              //    and memory are allocated in it;
    ...
  }

  s_start() {  // 4. The opened file is being read;
    ...
    *iter->trace = *tr->current_trace;  // 5. If tracer is switched to
                                        //    'nop' or others, then memory
                                        //    in step 3 are leaked!!!
    ...
  }

To fix it, in s_start(), close tracer before switching then reopen the
new tracer after switching. And some tracers like 'wakeup' may not update
'iter->private' in some cases when reopen, then it should be cleared
to avoid being mistakenly closed again.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230817125539.1646321-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Fixes: d7350c3f4569 ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tracing: Use pause-on-trace with the latency tracers

2021-02-10T08:29:16+00:00

commit da7f84cdf02fd5f66864041f45018b328911b722 upstream.

Eaerlier, tracing was disabled when reading the trace file. This behavior
was changed with:

commit 06e0a548bad0 ("tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the
trace file").

This doesn't seem to work with the latency tracers.

The above mentioned commit dit not only change the behavior but also added
an option to emulate the old behavior. The idea with this patch is to
enable this pause-on-trace option when the latency tracers are used.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210119164344.37500-2-Viktor.Rosendahl@bmw.de

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 06e0a548bad0 ("tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the trace file")
Signed-off-by: Viktor Rosendahl 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Rename trace_buffer to array_buffer

2020-01-13T18:19:38+00:00

As we are working to remove the generic "ring_buffer" name that is used by
both tracing and perf, the ring_buffer name for tracing will be renamed to
trace_buffer, and perf's ring buffer will be renamed to perf_buffer.

As there already exists a trace_buffer that is used by the trace_arrays, it
needs to be first renamed to array_buffer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'trace-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2019-03-12T00:01:32+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The biggest change for this release is in the histogram code:

   - Add "onchange(var)" histogram handler that executes a action when
     $var changes.

   - Add new "snapshot()" action for histogram handlers, that causes a
     snapshot of the ring buffer when triggered. ie.
     onchange(var).snapshot() will trigger a snapshot if var changes.

   - Add alternative for "trace()" action. Currently, to trigger a
     synthetic event, the name of that event is used as the handler
     name, which is inconsistent with the other actions.
     onchange(var).synthetic(param) where it can now be
     onchange(var).trace(synthetic, param). The older method will still
     be allowed, as long as the synthetic events do not overlap with
     other handler names.

   - The histogram documentation at testcases were updated for the new
     changes.

  Outside of the histogram code, we have:

   - Added a quicker way to enable set_ftrace_filter files, that will
     make it much quicker to bisect tracing a function that shouldn't be
     traced and crashes the kernel. (You can echo in numbers to
     set_ftrace_filter, and it will select the corresponding function
     that is in available_filter_functions).

   - Some better displaying of the tracing data (and more information
     was added).

  The rest are small fixes and more clean ups to the code"

* tag 'trace-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (37 commits)
  tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy when copying comm in trace.c
  tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy when copying comm for hist triggers
  tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy for string keys in hist triggers
  tracing: Use str_has_prefix() in synth_event_create()
  x86/ftrace: Fix warning and considate ftrace_jmp_replace() and ftrace_call_replace()
  tracing/perf: Use strndup_user() instead of buggy open-coded version
  doc: trace: Fix documentation for uprobe_profile
  tracing: Fix spelling mistake: "analagous" -> "analogous"
  tracing: Comment why cond_snapshot is checked outside of max_lock protection
  tracing: Add hist trigger action 'expected fail' test case
  tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action test case
  tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler test case
  tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action test case
  tracing: Add SPDX license GPL-2.0 license identifier to inter-event testcases
  tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action syntax
  tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler Documentation
  tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler
  tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action Documentation
  tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action
  tracing: Add conditional snapshot
  ...

kprobes: Prohibit probing on hardirq tracers

2019-02-13T07:16:40+00:00

Since kprobes breakpoint handling involves hardirq tracer,
probing these functions cause breakpoint recursion problem.

Prohibit probing on those functions.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andrea Righi 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154998802073.31052.17255044712514564153.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

function_graph: Support displaying relative timestamp

2019-02-06T16:56:18+00:00

When function_graph is used for latency tracers, relative timestamp
is more straightforward than absolute timestamp as function trace
does. This change adds relative timestamp support to function_graph
and applies to latency tracers (wakeup and irqsoff).

Instead of:

 # tracer: irqsoff
 #
 # irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 5.0.0-rc1-test
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # latency: 521 us, #1125/1125, CPU#2 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:8)
 #    -----------------
 #    | task: swapper/2-0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
 #    -----------------
 #  => started at: __schedule
 #  => ended at:   _raw_spin_unlock_irq
 #
 #
 #                                       _-----=> irqs-off
 #                                      / _----=> need-resched
 #                                     | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                                     || / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                                     ||| /
 #     TIME        CPU  TASK/PID       ||||  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 #      |          |     |    |        ||||   |   |                     |   |   |   |
   124.974306 |   2)  systemd-693   |  d..1  0.000 us    |  __schedule();
   124.974307 |   2)  systemd-693   |  d..1              |    rcu_note_context_switch() {
   124.974308 |   2)  systemd-693   |  d..1  0.487 us    |      rcu_preempt_deferred_qs();
   124.974309 |   2)  systemd-693   |  d..1  0.451 us    |      rcu_qs();
   124.974310 |   2)  systemd-693   |  d..1  2.301 us    |    }
[..]
   124.974826 |   2)    -0    |  d..2              |  finish_task_switch() {
   124.974826 |   2)    -0    |  d..2              |    _raw_spin_unlock_irq() {
   124.974827 |   2)    -0    |  d..2  0.000 us    |  _raw_spin_unlock_irq();
   124.974828 |   2)    -0    |  d..2  0.000 us    |  tracer_hardirqs_on();
   -0       2d..2  552us : 
  => __schedule
  => schedule_idle
  => do_idle
  => cpu_startup_entry
  => start_secondary
  => secondary_startup_64

Show:

 # tracer: irqsoff
 #
 # irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 5.0.0-rc1-test+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # latency: 511 us, #1053/1053, CPU#7 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:8)
 #    -----------------
 #    | task: swapper/7-0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
 #    -----------------
 #  => started at: __schedule
 #  => ended at:   _raw_spin_unlock_irq
 #
 #
 #                                       _-----=> irqs-off
 #                                      / _----=> need-resched
 #                                     | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                                     || / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                                     ||| /
 #   REL TIME      CPU  TASK/PID       ||||  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 #      |          |     |    |        ||||   |   |                     |   |   |   |
         0 us |   7)   sshd-1704    |  d..1  0.000 us    |  __schedule();
         1 us |   7)   sshd-1704    |  d..1              |    rcu_note_context_switch() {
         1 us |   7)   sshd-1704    |  d..1  0.611 us    |      rcu_preempt_deferred_qs();
         2 us |   7)   sshd-1704    |  d..1  0.484 us    |      rcu_qs();
         3 us |   7)   sshd-1704    |  d..1  2.599 us    |    }
[..]
       509 us |   7)    -0    |  d..2              |  finish_task_switch() {
       510 us |   7)    -0    |  d..2              |    _raw_spin_unlock_irq() {
       510 us |   7)    -0    |  d..2  0.000 us    |  _raw_spin_unlock_irq();
       512 us |   7)    -0    |  d..2  0.000 us    |  tracer_hardirqs_on();
   -0       7d..2  543us : 
  => __schedule
  => schedule_idle
  => do_idle
  => cpu_startup_entry
  => start_secondary
  => secondary_startup_64

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190101154614.8887-2-changbin.du@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

fgraph: Add new fgraph_ops structure to enable function graph hooks

2018-12-09T01:54:07+00:00

Currently the registering of function graph is to pass in a entry and return
function. We need to have a way to associate those functions together where
the entry can determine to run the return hook. Having a structure that
contains both functions will facilitate the process of converting the code
to be able to do such.

This is similar to the way function hooks are enabled (it passes in
ftrace_ops). Instead of passing in the functions to use, a single structure
is passed in to the registering function.

The unregister function is now passed in the fgraph_ops handle. When we
allow more than one callback to the function graph hooks, this will let the
system know which one to remove.

Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing/fgraph: Fix set_graph_function from showing interrupts

2018-11-30T03:09:00+00:00

The tracefs file set_graph_function is used to only function graph functions
that are listed in that file (or all functions if the file is empty). The
way this is implemented is that the function graph tracer looks at every
function, and if the current depth is zero and the function matches
something in the file then it will trace that function. When other functions
are called, the depth will be greater than zero (because the original
function will be at depth zero), and all functions will be traced where the
depth is greater than zero.

The issue is that when a function is first entered, and the handler that
checks this logic is called, the depth is set to zero. If an interrupt comes
in and a function in the interrupt handler is traced, its depth will be
greater than zero and it will automatically be traced, even if the original
function was not. But because the logic only looks at depth it may trace
interrupts when it should not be.

The recent design change of the function graph tracer to fix other bugs
caused the depth to be zero while the function graph callback handler is
being called for a longer time, widening the race of this happening. This
bug was actually there for a longer time, but because the race window was so
small it seldom happened. The Fixes tag below is for the commit that widen
the race window, because that commit belongs to a series that will also help
fix the original bug.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 39eb456dacb5 ("function_graph: Use new curr_ret_depth to manage depth instead of curr_ret_stack")
Reported-by: Joe Lawrence 
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files

2018-08-16T23:08:06+00:00

Add the SPDX License header to ease license compliance management.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)