linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c, branch v6.18.21

Merge tag 'probes-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2025-07-30T22:38:01+00:00

Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
 "Stack usage reduction for probe events:
   - Allocate string buffers from the heap for uprobe, eprobe, kprobe,
     and fprobe events to avoid stack overflow
   - Allocate traceprobe_parse_context from the heap to prevent
     potential stack overflow
   - Fix a typo in the above commit

  New features for eprobe and tprobe events:
   - Add support for arrays in eprobes
   - Support multiple tprobes on the same tracepoint

  Improve efficiency:
   - Register fprobe-events only when it is enabled to reduce overhead
   - Register tracepoints for tprobe events only when enabled to resolve
     a lock dependency

  Code Cleanup:
   - Add kerneldoc for traceprobe_parse_event_name() and
     __get_insn_slot()
   - Sort #include alphabetically in the probes code
   - Remove the unused 'mod' field from the tprobe-event
   - Clean up the entry-arg storing code in probe-events

  Selftest update
   - Enable fprobe events before checking enable_functions in selftests"

* tag 'probes-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: trace_fprobe: Fix typo of the semicolon
  tracing: Have eprobes handle arrays
  tracing: probes: Add a kerneldoc for traceprobe_parse_event_name()
  tracing: uprobe-event: Allocate string buffers from heap
  tracing: eprobe-event: Allocate string buffers from heap
  tracing: kprobe-event: Allocate string buffers from heap
  tracing: fprobe-event: Allocate string buffers from heap
  tracing: probe: Allocate traceprobe_parse_context from heap
  tracing: probes: Sort #include alphabetically
  kprobes: Add missing kerneldoc for __get_insn_slot
  tracing: tprobe-events: Register tracepoint when enable tprobe event
  selftests: tracing: Enable fprobe events before checking enable_functions
  tracing: fprobe-events: Register fprobe-events only when it is enabled
  tracing: tprobe-events: Support multiple tprobes on the same tracepoint
  tracing: tprobe-events: Remove mod field from tprobe-event
  tracing: probe-events: Cleanup entry-arg storing code

tracing: probes: Add a kerneldoc for traceprobe_parse_event_name()

2025-07-23T15:22:06+00:00

Since traceprobe_parse_event_name() is a bit complicated, add a
kerneldoc for explaining the behavior.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/175323430565.57270.2602609519355112748.stgit@devnote2/

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: probes: Sort #include alphabetically

2025-07-23T15:21:22+00:00

Sort the #include directives in trace_probe* files alphabetically for
easier maintenance and avoid double includes.
This also groups headers as linux-generic, asm-generic, and local
headers.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/175323424678.57270.11975372127870059007.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

tracing/probes: Avoid using params uninitialized in parse_btf_arg()

2025-07-16T05:01:54+00:00

After a recent change in clang to strengthen uninitialized warnings [1],
it points out that in one of the error paths in parse_btf_arg(), params
is used uninitialized:

  kernel/trace/trace_probe.c:660:19: warning: variable 'params' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
    660 |                         return PTR_ERR(params);
        |                                        ^~~~~~

Match many other NO_BTF_ENTRY error cases and return -ENOENT, clearing
up the warning.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250715-trace_probe-fix-const-uninit-warning-v1-1-98960f91dd04@kernel.org/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2110
Fixes: d157d7694460 ("tracing/probes: Support BTF field access from $retval")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/2464313eef01c5b1edf0eccf57a32cdee01472c7 [1]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

tracing: probe-events: Cleanup entry-arg storing code

2025-07-02T00:44:12+00:00

Cleanup __store_entry_arg() so that it is easier to understand.
The main complexity may come from combining the loops for finding
stored-entry-arg and max-offset and appending new entry.

This split those different loops into 3 parts, lookup the same
entry-arg, find the max offset and append new entry.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/174323039929.348535.4705349977127704120.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

tracing: probes: Fix a possible race in trace_probe_log APIs

2025-05-13T13:23:34+00:00

Since the shared trace_probe_log variable can be accessed and
modified via probe event create operation of kprobe_events,
uprobe_events, and dynamic_events, it should be protected.
In the dynamic_events, all operations are serialized by
`dyn_event_ops_mutex`. But kprobe_events and uprobe_events
interfaces are not serialized.

To solve this issue, introduces dyn_event_create(), which runs
create() operation under the mutex, for kprobe_events and
uprobe_events. This also uses lockdep to check the mutex is
held when using trace_probe_log* APIs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/174684868120.551552.3068655787654268804.stgit@devnote2/

Reported-by: Paul Cacheux 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250510074456.805a16872b591e2971a4d221@kernel.org/
Fixes: ab105a4fb894 ("tracing: Use tracing error_log with probe events")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

tracing: probe-events: Add comments about entry data storing code

2025-03-27T12:19:54+00:00

Add comments about entry data storing code to __store_entry_arg() and
traceprobe_get_entry_data_size(). These are a bit complicated because of
building the entry data storing code and scanning it.

This just add comments, no behavior change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/174061715004.501424.333819546601401102.stgit@devnote2/

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250226102223.586d7119@gandalf.local.home/
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

tracing: Use __free() in trace_probe for cleanup

2025-01-10T00:00:13+00:00

Use __free() in trace_probe to cleanup some gotos.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/173643298860.1514810.7267350121047606213.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Consider the NULL character when validating the event length

2024-10-23T08:24:47+00:00

strlen() returns a string length excluding the null byte. If the string
length equals to the maximum buffer length, the buffer will have no
space for the NULL terminating character.

This commit checks this condition and returns failure for it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241007144724.920954-1-leo.yan@arm.com/

Fixes: dec65d79fd26 ("tracing/probe: Check event name length correctly")
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

tracing/probes: fix error check in parse_btf_field()

2024-05-27T12:32:35+00:00

btf_find_struct_member() might return NULL or an error via the
ERR_PTR() macro. However, its caller in parse_btf_field() only checks
for the NULL condition. Fix this by using IS_ERR() and returning the
error up the stack.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240527094351.15687-1-clopez@suse.de/

Fixes: c440adfbe3025 ("tracing/probes: Support BTF based data structure field access")
Signed-off-by: Carlos López 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)