linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c, branch v6.6.132

tracing: Disable "other" permission bits in the tracefs files

2021-10-08T22:08:43+00:00

When building the files in the tracefs file system, do not by default set
any permissions for OTH (other). This will make it easier for admins who
want to define a group for accessing tracefs and not having to first
disable all the permission bits for "other" in the file system.

As tracing can leak sensitive information, it should never by default
allowing all users access. An admin can still set the permission bits for
others to have access, which may be useful for creating a honeypot and
seeing who takes advantage of it and roots the machine.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210818153038.864149276@goodmis.org

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Have the callbacks receive a struct ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs

2020-11-13T17:14:55+00:00

In preparation to have arguments of a function passed to callbacks attached
to functions as default, change the default callback prototype to receive a
struct ftrace_regs as the forth parameter instead of a pt_regs.

For callbacks that set the FL_SAVE_REGS flag in their ftrace_ops flags, they
will now need to get the pt_regs via a ftrace_get_regs() helper call. If
this is called by a callback that their ftrace_ops did not have a
FL_SAVE_REGS flag set, it that helper function will return NULL.

This will allow the ftrace_regs to hold enough just to get the parameters
and stack pointer, but without the worry that callbacks may have a pt_regs
that is not completely filled.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Reverse what the RECURSION flag means in the ftrace_ops

2020-11-06T13:42:12+00:00

Now that all callbacks are recursion safe, reverse the meaning of the
RECURSION flag and rename it from RECURSION_SAFE to simply RECURSION.
Now only callbacks that request to have recursion protecting it will
have the added trampoline to do so.

Also remove the outdated comment about "PER_CPU" when determining to
use the ftrace_ops_assist_func.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201028115613.742454631@goodmis.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106023547.904270143@goodmis.org

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Josh  Poimboeuf 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Miroslav Benes 
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: make tracing_init_dentry() returns an integer instead of a d_entry pointer

2020-09-19T02:17:14+00:00

Current tracing_init_dentry() return a d_entry pointer, while is not
necessary. This function returns NULL on success or error on failure,
which means there is no valid d_entry pointer return.

Let's return 0 on success and negative value for error.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200712011036.70948-5-richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

trace: fix an incorrect __user annotation on stack_trace_sysctl

2020-06-08T14:13:56+00:00

No user pointers for sysctls anymore.

Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
Reported-by: build test robot 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

tracing: Have stack tracer compile when MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE is not defined

2020-01-03T03:04:07+00:00

On some archs with some configurations, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE is not defined, and
this makes the stack tracer fail to compile. Just define it to zero in this
case.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202001020219.zvE3vsty%lkp@intel.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4df297129f622 ("tracing: Remove most or all of stack tracer stack size from stack_max_size")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Add locked_down checks to the open calls of files created for tracefs

2019-10-13T00:48:06+00:00

Added various checks on open tracefs calls to see if tracefs is in lockdown
mode, and if so, to return -EPERM.

Note, the event format files (which are basically standard on all machines)
as well as the enabled_functions file (which shows what is currently being
traced) are not lockde down. Perhaps they should be, but it seems counter
intuitive to lockdown information to help you know if the system has been
modified.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wj7fGPKUspr579Cii-w_y60PtRaiDgKuxVtBAMK0VNNkA@mail.gmail.com

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Document the stack trace algorithm in the comments

2019-08-31T16:19:40+00:00

As the max stack tracer algorithm is not that easy to understand from the
code, add comments that explain the algorithm and mentions how
ARCH_FTRACE_SHIFT_STACK_TRACER affects it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806123455.487ac02b@gandalf.local.home

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

tracing/arm64: Have max stack tracer handle the case of return address after data

2019-08-31T16:19:40+00:00

Most archs (well at least x86) store the function call return address on the
stack before storing the local variables for the function. The max stack
tracer depends on this in its algorithm to display the stack size of each
function it finds in the back trace.

Some archs (arm64), may store the return address (from its link register)
just before calling a nested function. There's no reason to save the link
register on leaf functions, as it wont be updated. This breaks the algorithm
of the max stack tracer.

Add a new define ARCH_FTRACE_SHIFT_STACK_TRACER that an architecture may set
if it stores the return address (link register) after it stores the
function's local variables, and have the stack trace shift the values of the
mapped stack size to the appropriate functions.

Link: 20190802094103.163576-1-jiping.ma2@windriver.com

Reported-by: Jiping Ma 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Remove the last struct stack_trace usage

2019-04-29T10:37:56+00:00

Simplify the stack retrieval code by using the storage array based
interface.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Akinobu Mita 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Robin Murphy 
Cc: Marek Szyprowski 
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn 
Cc: David Sterba 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Josef Bacik 
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen 
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst 
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Jani Nikula 
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Miroslav Benes 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425094803.340000461@linutronix.de