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<title>gcov: support GCC 12.1 and newer compilers</title>
<updated>2022-10-26T10:22:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Liska</name>
<email>mliska@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-13T07:40:59+00:00</published>
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commit 977ef30a7d888eeb52fb6908f99080f33e5309a8 upstream.

Starting with GCC 12.1, the created .gcda format can't be read by gcov
tool.  There are 2 significant changes to the .gcda file format that
need to be supported:

a) [gcov: Use system IO buffering]
   (23eb66d1d46a34cb28c4acbdf8a1deb80a7c5a05) changed that all sizes in
   the format are in bytes and not in words (4B)

b) [gcov: make profile merging smarter]
   (72e0c742bd01f8e7e6dcca64042b9ad7e75979de) add a new checksum to the
   file header.

Tested with GCC 7.5, 10.4, 12.2 and the current master.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/624bda92-f307-30e9-9aaa-8cc678b2dfb2@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Martin Liska &lt;mliska@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 977ef30a7d888eeb52fb6908f99080f33e5309a8 upstream.

Starting with GCC 12.1, the created .gcda format can't be read by gcov
tool.  There are 2 significant changes to the .gcda file format that
need to be supported:

a) [gcov: Use system IO buffering]
   (23eb66d1d46a34cb28c4acbdf8a1deb80a7c5a05) changed that all sizes in
   the format are in bytes and not in words (4B)

b) [gcov: make profile merging smarter]
   (72e0c742bd01f8e7e6dcca64042b9ad7e75979de) add a new checksum to the
   file header.

Tested with GCC 7.5, 10.4, 12.2 and the current master.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/624bda92-f307-30e9-9aaa-8cc678b2dfb2@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Martin Liska &lt;mliska@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: use bpf_prog_pack for bpf_dispatcher</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:39:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Song Liu</name>
<email>song@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-26T18:47:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 19c02415da2345d0dda2b5c4495bc17cc14b18b5 ]

Allocate bpf_dispatcher with bpf_prog_pack_alloc so that bpf_dispatcher
can share pages with bpf programs.

arch_prepare_bpf_dispatcher() is updated to provide a RW buffer as working
area for arch code to write to.

This also fixes CPA W^X warnning like:

CPA refuse W^X violation: 8000000000000163 -&gt; 0000000000000163 range: ...

Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926184739.3512547-2-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 19c02415da2345d0dda2b5c4495bc17cc14b18b5 ]

Allocate bpf_dispatcher with bpf_prog_pack_alloc so that bpf_dispatcher
can share pages with bpf programs.

arch_prepare_bpf_dispatcher() is updated to provide a RW buffer as working
area for arch code to write to.

This also fixes CPA W^X warnning like:

CPA refuse W^X violation: 8000000000000163 -&gt; 0000000000000163 range: ...

Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926184739.3512547-2-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Adjust kprobe_multi entry_ip for CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:39:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-26T15:33:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c09eb2e578eb1668bbc84dc07e8d8bd6f04b9a02 ]

Martynas reported bpf_get_func_ip returning +4 address when
CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT option is enabled.

When CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT is enabled we'll have endbr instruction
at the function entry, which screws return value of bpf_get_func_ip()
helper that should return the function address.

There's short term workaround for kprobe_multi bpf program made by
Alexei [1], but we need this fixup also for bpf_get_attach_cookie,
that returns cookie based on the entry_ip value.

Moving the fixup in the fprobe handler, so both bpf_get_func_ip
and bpf_get_attach_cookie get expected function address when
CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT option is enabled.

Also renaming kprobe_multi_link_handler entry_ip argument to fentry_ip
so it's clearer this is an ftrace __fentry__ ip.

[1] commit 7f0059b58f02 ("selftests/bpf: Fix kprobe_multi test.")

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Martynas Pumputis &lt;m@lambda.lt&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926153340.1621984-5-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c09eb2e578eb1668bbc84dc07e8d8bd6f04b9a02 ]

Martynas reported bpf_get_func_ip returning +4 address when
CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT option is enabled.

When CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT is enabled we'll have endbr instruction
at the function entry, which screws return value of bpf_get_func_ip()
helper that should return the function address.

There's short term workaround for kprobe_multi bpf program made by
Alexei [1], but we need this fixup also for bpf_get_attach_cookie,
that returns cookie based on the entry_ip value.

Moving the fixup in the fprobe handler, so both bpf_get_func_ip
and bpf_get_attach_cookie get expected function address when
CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT option is enabled.

Also renaming kprobe_multi_link_handler entry_ip argument to fentry_ip
so it's clearer this is an ftrace __fentry__ ip.

[1] commit 7f0059b58f02 ("selftests/bpf: Fix kprobe_multi test.")

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Martynas Pumputis &lt;m@lambda.lt&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926153340.1621984-5-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Ensure RCU Tasks Trace loops have quiescent states</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:39:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-18T17:57:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d6ad60635cafe900bcd11ad588d8accb36c36b1b ]

The RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread loops across all CPUs, and
there can be quite a few CPUs, with some commercially available systems
sporting well over a thousand of them.  Some of these loops can feature
IPIs, which can take some time.  This commit therefore places a call to
cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() in each such loop.

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V0YnG1HTWMt9WHJjroiJL9lf-hMrud4v8Fn3fhyY0cI/edit?usp=sharing
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d6ad60635cafe900bcd11ad588d8accb36c36b1b ]

The RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread loops across all CPUs, and
there can be quite a few CPUs, with some commercially available systems
sporting well over a thousand of them.  Some of these loops can feature
IPIs, which can take some time.  This commit therefore places a call to
cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() in each such loop.

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V0YnG1HTWMt9WHJjroiJL9lf-hMrud4v8Fn3fhyY0cI/edit?usp=sharing
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Convert RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() to WARN_ONCE()</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:39:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zqiang</name>
<email>qiang1.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-12T08:26:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fcd53c8a4dfa38bafb89efdd0b0f718f3a03f884 ]

Kernels built with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y and CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y
attempt to emit a warning when the synchronize_rcu_tasks_generic()
function is called during early boot while the rcu_scheduler_active
variable is RCU_SCHEDULER_INACTIVE.  However the warnings is not
actually be printed because the debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() returns
false, exactly because the rcu_scheduler_active variable is still equal
to RCU_SCHEDULER_INACTIVE.

This commit therefore replaces RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() with WARN_ONCE()
to force these warnings to actually be printed.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang1.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fcd53c8a4dfa38bafb89efdd0b0f718f3a03f884 ]

Kernels built with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y and CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y
attempt to emit a warning when the synchronize_rcu_tasks_generic()
function is called during early boot while the rcu_scheduler_active
variable is RCU_SCHEDULER_INACTIVE.  However the warnings is not
actually be printed because the debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() returns
false, exactly because the rcu_scheduler_active variable is still equal
to RCU_SCHEDULER_INACTIVE.

This commit therefore replaces RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() with WARN_ONCE()
to force these warnings to actually be printed.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang1.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Back off upon fill_page_cache_func() allocation failure</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:39:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-22T11:47:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 093590c16b447f53e66771c8579ae66c96f6ef61 ]

The fill_page_cache_func() function allocates couple of pages to store
kvfree_rcu_bulk_data structures. This is a lightweight (GFP_NORETRY)
allocation which can fail under memory pressure. The function will,
however keep retrying even when the previous attempt has failed.

This retrying is in theory correct, but in practice the allocation is
invoked from workqueue context, which means that if the memory reclaim
gets stuck, these retries can hog the worker for quite some time.
Although the workqueues subsystem automatically adjusts concurrency, such
adjustment is not guaranteed to happen until the worker context sleeps.
And the fill_page_cache_func() function's retry loop is not guaranteed
to sleep (see the should_reclaim_retry() function).

And we have seen this function cause workqueue lockups:

kernel: BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=93 node=1 flags=0x1 nice=0 stuck for 32s!
[...]
kernel: pool 74: cpus=37 node=0 flags=0x1 nice=0 hung=32s workers=2 manager: 2146
kernel:   pwq 498: cpus=249 node=1 flags=0x1 nice=0 active=4/256 refcnt=5
kernel:     in-flight: 1917:fill_page_cache_func
kernel:     pending: dbs_work_handler, free_work, kfree_rcu_monitor

Originally, we thought that the root cause of this lockup was several
retries with direct reclaim, but this is not yet confirmed.  Furthermore,
we have seen similar lockups without any heavy memory pressure.  This
suggests that there are other factors contributing to these lockups.
However, it is not really clear that endless retries are desireable.

So let's make the fill_page_cache_func() function back off after
allocation failure.

Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;quic_neeraju@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 093590c16b447f53e66771c8579ae66c96f6ef61 ]

The fill_page_cache_func() function allocates couple of pages to store
kvfree_rcu_bulk_data structures. This is a lightweight (GFP_NORETRY)
allocation which can fail under memory pressure. The function will,
however keep retrying even when the previous attempt has failed.

This retrying is in theory correct, but in practice the allocation is
invoked from workqueue context, which means that if the memory reclaim
gets stuck, these retries can hog the worker for quite some time.
Although the workqueues subsystem automatically adjusts concurrency, such
adjustment is not guaranteed to happen until the worker context sleeps.
And the fill_page_cache_func() function's retry loop is not guaranteed
to sleep (see the should_reclaim_retry() function).

And we have seen this function cause workqueue lockups:

kernel: BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=93 node=1 flags=0x1 nice=0 stuck for 32s!
[...]
kernel: pool 74: cpus=37 node=0 flags=0x1 nice=0 hung=32s workers=2 manager: 2146
kernel:   pwq 498: cpus=249 node=1 flags=0x1 nice=0 active=4/256 refcnt=5
kernel:     in-flight: 1917:fill_page_cache_func
kernel:     pending: dbs_work_handler, free_work, kfree_rcu_monitor

Originally, we thought that the root cause of this lockup was several
retries with direct reclaim, but this is not yet confirmed.  Furthermore,
we have seen similar lockups without any heavy memory pressure.  This
suggests that there are other factors contributing to these lockups.
However, it is not really clear that endless retries are desireable.

So let's make the fill_page_cache_func() function back off after
allocation failure.

Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;quic_neeraju@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Avoid triggering strict-GP irq-work when RCU is idle</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:39:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zqiang</name>
<email>qiang1.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-08T02:26:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 621189a1fe93cb2b34d62c5cdb9e258bca044813 ]

Kernels built with PREEMPT_RCU=y and RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y trigger
irq-work from rcu_read_unlock(), and the resulting irq-work handler
invokes rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handle().  The point of this triggering
is to force grace periods to end quickly in order to give tools like KASAN
a better chance of detecting RCU usage bugs such as leaking RCU-protected
pointers out of an RCU read-side critical section.

However, this irq-work triggering is unconditional.  This works, but
there is no point in doing this irq-work unless the current grace period
is waiting on the running CPU or task, which is not the common case.
After all, in the common case there are many rcu_read_unlock() calls
per CPU per grace period.

This commit therefore triggers the irq-work only when the current grace
period is waiting on the running CPU or task.

This change was tested as follows on a four-CPU system:

	echo rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
	echo 1 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/function_profile_enabled
	insmod rcutorture.ko
	sleep 20
	rmmod rcutorture.ko
	echo 0 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/function_profile_enabled
	echo &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

This procedure produces results in this per-CPU set of files:

	/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/function*

Sample output from one of these files is as follows:

  Function                               Hit    Time            Avg             s^2
  --------                               ---    ----            ---             ---
  rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handle      838746    182650.3 us     0.217 us        0.004 us

The baseline sum of the "Hit" values (the number of calls to this
function) was 3,319,015.  With this commit, that sum was 1,140,359,
for a 2.9x reduction.  The worst-case variance across the CPUs was less
than 25%, so this large effect size is statistically significant.

The raw data is available in the Link: URL.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220808022626.12825-1-qiang1.zhang@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang1.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 621189a1fe93cb2b34d62c5cdb9e258bca044813 ]

Kernels built with PREEMPT_RCU=y and RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y trigger
irq-work from rcu_read_unlock(), and the resulting irq-work handler
invokes rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handle().  The point of this triggering
is to force grace periods to end quickly in order to give tools like KASAN
a better chance of detecting RCU usage bugs such as leaking RCU-protected
pointers out of an RCU read-side critical section.

However, this irq-work triggering is unconditional.  This works, but
there is no point in doing this irq-work unless the current grace period
is waiting on the running CPU or task, which is not the common case.
After all, in the common case there are many rcu_read_unlock() calls
per CPU per grace period.

This commit therefore triggers the irq-work only when the current grace
period is waiting on the running CPU or task.

This change was tested as follows on a four-CPU system:

	echo rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
	echo 1 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/function_profile_enabled
	insmod rcutorture.ko
	sleep 20
	rmmod rcutorture.ko
	echo 0 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/function_profile_enabled
	echo &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

This procedure produces results in this per-CPU set of files:

	/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/function*

Sample output from one of these files is as follows:

  Function                               Hit    Time            Avg             s^2
  --------                               ---    ----            ---             ---
  rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handle      838746    182650.3 us     0.217 us        0.004 us

The baseline sum of the "Hit" values (the number of calls to this
function) was 3,319,015.  With this commit, that sum was 1,140,359,
for a 2.9x reduction.  The worst-case variance across the CPUs was less
than 25%, so this large effect size is statistically significant.

The raw data is available in the Link: URL.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220808022626.12825-1-qiang1.zhang@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang1.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: tracking: Keep a record of tainted unloaded modules only</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:39:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaron Tomlin</name>
<email>atomlin@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-07T13:38:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=4ceb529a001ecb6e4e12f5dd0dbfd0635c8b7766'/>
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[ Upstream commit 47cc75aa92837a9d3f15157d6272ff285585d75d ]

This ensures that no module record/or entry is added to the
unloaded_tainted_modules list if it does not carry a taint.

Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 99bd9956551b ("module: Introduce module unload taint tracking")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 47cc75aa92837a9d3f15157d6272ff285585d75d ]

This ensures that no module record/or entry is added to the
unloaded_tainted_modules list if it does not carry a taint.

Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 99bd9956551b ("module: Introduce module unload taint tracking")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Fix recursive locking direct_mutex in ftrace_modify_direct_caller</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:39:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Song Liu</name>
<email>song@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-27T00:41:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=2482eacb685b6500e158268befbe6c90de5f166a'/>
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[ Upstream commit 9d2ce78ddcee159eb6a97449e9c68b6d60b9cec4 ]

Naveen reported recursive locking of direct_mutex with sample
ftrace-direct-modify.ko:

[   74.762406] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[   74.762887] 6.0.0-rc6+ #33 Not tainted
[   74.763216] --------------------------------------------
[   74.763672] event-sample-fn/1084 is trying to acquire lock:
[   74.764152] ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
    register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.764922]
[   74.764922] but task is already holding lock:
[   74.765421] ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
    modify_ftrace_direct+0x34/0x1f0
[   74.766142]
[   74.766142] other info that might help us debug this:
[   74.766701]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[   74.766701]
[   74.767216]        CPU0
[   74.767437]        ----
[   74.767656]   lock(direct_mutex);
[   74.767952]   lock(direct_mutex);
[   74.768245]
[   74.768245]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[   74.768245]
[   74.768750]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[   74.768750]
[   74.769332] 1 lock held by event-sample-fn/1084:
[   74.769731]  #0: ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
    modify_ftrace_direct+0x34/0x1f0
[   74.770496]
[   74.770496] stack backtrace:
[   74.770884] CPU: 4 PID: 1084 Comm: event-sample-fn Not tainted ...
[   74.771498] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), ...
[   74.772474] Call Trace:
[   74.772696]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[   74.772896]  dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5b
[   74.773223]  __lock_acquire.cold.74+0xac/0x2b7
[   74.773616]  lock_acquire+0xd2/0x310
[   74.773936]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.774357]  ? lock_is_held_type+0xd8/0x130
[   74.774744]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.775213]  __mutex_lock+0x99/0x1010
[   74.775536]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.775954]  ? slab_free_freelist_hook.isra.43+0x115/0x160
[   74.776424]  ? ftrace_set_hash+0x195/0x220
[   74.776779]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.777194]  ? kfree+0x3e1/0x440
[   74.777482]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.777941]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.778258]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.778672]  ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.779128]  register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.779527]  ? ftrace_set_filter_ip+0x33/0x70
[   74.779910]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.780231]  ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.780678]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.781147]  ftrace_modify_direct_caller+0x5b/0x90
[   74.781563]  ? 0xffffffffa0201000
[   74.781859]  ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.782309]  modify_ftrace_direct+0x1b2/0x1f0
[   74.782690]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.783014]  ? simple_thread+0x2a/0xb0 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.783508]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.783832]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.784294]  simple_thread+0x76/0xb0 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.784766]  kthread+0xf5/0x120
[   74.785052]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[   74.785464]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[   74.785781]  &lt;/TASK&gt;

Fix this by using register_ftrace_function_nolock in
ftrace_modify_direct_caller.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927004146.1215303-1-song@kernel.org

Fixes: 53cd885bc5c3 ("ftrace: Allow IPMODIFY and DIRECT ops on the same function")
Reported-and-tested-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&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 9d2ce78ddcee159eb6a97449e9c68b6d60b9cec4 ]

Naveen reported recursive locking of direct_mutex with sample
ftrace-direct-modify.ko:

[   74.762406] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[   74.762887] 6.0.0-rc6+ #33 Not tainted
[   74.763216] --------------------------------------------
[   74.763672] event-sample-fn/1084 is trying to acquire lock:
[   74.764152] ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
    register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.764922]
[   74.764922] but task is already holding lock:
[   74.765421] ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
    modify_ftrace_direct+0x34/0x1f0
[   74.766142]
[   74.766142] other info that might help us debug this:
[   74.766701]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[   74.766701]
[   74.767216]        CPU0
[   74.767437]        ----
[   74.767656]   lock(direct_mutex);
[   74.767952]   lock(direct_mutex);
[   74.768245]
[   74.768245]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[   74.768245]
[   74.768750]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[   74.768750]
[   74.769332] 1 lock held by event-sample-fn/1084:
[   74.769731]  #0: ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
    modify_ftrace_direct+0x34/0x1f0
[   74.770496]
[   74.770496] stack backtrace:
[   74.770884] CPU: 4 PID: 1084 Comm: event-sample-fn Not tainted ...
[   74.771498] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), ...
[   74.772474] Call Trace:
[   74.772696]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[   74.772896]  dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5b
[   74.773223]  __lock_acquire.cold.74+0xac/0x2b7
[   74.773616]  lock_acquire+0xd2/0x310
[   74.773936]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.774357]  ? lock_is_held_type+0xd8/0x130
[   74.774744]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.775213]  __mutex_lock+0x99/0x1010
[   74.775536]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.775954]  ? slab_free_freelist_hook.isra.43+0x115/0x160
[   74.776424]  ? ftrace_set_hash+0x195/0x220
[   74.776779]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.777194]  ? kfree+0x3e1/0x440
[   74.777482]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.777941]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.778258]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.778672]  ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.779128]  register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.779527]  ? ftrace_set_filter_ip+0x33/0x70
[   74.779910]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.780231]  ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.780678]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.781147]  ftrace_modify_direct_caller+0x5b/0x90
[   74.781563]  ? 0xffffffffa0201000
[   74.781859]  ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.782309]  modify_ftrace_direct+0x1b2/0x1f0
[   74.782690]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.783014]  ? simple_thread+0x2a/0xb0 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.783508]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.783832]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.784294]  simple_thread+0x76/0xb0 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.784766]  kthread+0xf5/0x120
[   74.785052]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[   74.785464]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[   74.785781]  &lt;/TASK&gt;

Fix this by using register_ftrace_function_nolock in
ftrace_modify_direct_caller.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927004146.1215303-1-song@kernel.org

Fixes: 53cd885bc5c3 ("ftrace: Allow IPMODIFY and DIRECT ops on the same function")
Reported-and-tested-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&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/osnoise: Fix possible recursive locking in stop_per_cpu_kthreads</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:39:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nico Pache</name>
<email>npache@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-19T14:49:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=511b40922cc9fd45805bfd5100812b5b157cc19c'/>
<id>511b40922cc9fd45805bfd5100812b5b157cc19c</id>
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[ Upstream commit 99ee9317a1305cd5626736785c8cb38b0e47686c ]

There is a recursive lock on the cpu_hotplug_lock.

In kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c:&lt;start/stop&gt;_per_cpu_kthreads:
    - start_per_cpu_kthreads calls cpus_read_lock() and if
	start_kthreads returns a error it will call stop_per_cpu_kthreads.
    - stop_per_cpu_kthreads then calls cpus_read_lock() again causing
      deadlock.

Fix this by calling cpus_read_unlock() before calling
stop_per_cpu_kthreads. This behavior can also be seen in commit
f46b16520a08 ("trace/hwlat: Implement the per-cpu mode").

This error was noticed during the LTP ftrace-stress-test:

WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
--------------------------------------------
sh/275006 is trying to acquire lock:
ffffffffb02f5400 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: stop_per_cpu_kthreads

but task is already holding lock:
ffffffffb02f5400 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_per_cpu_kthreads

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

      CPU0
      ----
 lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);
 lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

May be due to missing lock nesting notation

3 locks held by sh/275006:
 #0: ffff8881023f0470 (sb_writers#24){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write
 #1: ffffffffb084f430 (trace_types_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rb_simple_write
 #2: ffffffffb02f5400 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_per_cpu_kthreads

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220919144932.3064014-1-npache@redhat.com

Fixes: c8895e271f79 ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&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 99ee9317a1305cd5626736785c8cb38b0e47686c ]

There is a recursive lock on the cpu_hotplug_lock.

In kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c:&lt;start/stop&gt;_per_cpu_kthreads:
    - start_per_cpu_kthreads calls cpus_read_lock() and if
	start_kthreads returns a error it will call stop_per_cpu_kthreads.
    - stop_per_cpu_kthreads then calls cpus_read_lock() again causing
      deadlock.

Fix this by calling cpus_read_unlock() before calling
stop_per_cpu_kthreads. This behavior can also be seen in commit
f46b16520a08 ("trace/hwlat: Implement the per-cpu mode").

This error was noticed during the LTP ftrace-stress-test:

WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
--------------------------------------------
sh/275006 is trying to acquire lock:
ffffffffb02f5400 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: stop_per_cpu_kthreads

but task is already holding lock:
ffffffffb02f5400 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_per_cpu_kthreads

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

      CPU0
      ----
 lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);
 lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

May be due to missing lock nesting notation

3 locks held by sh/275006:
 #0: ffff8881023f0470 (sb_writers#24){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write
 #1: ffffffffb084f430 (trace_types_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rb_simple_write
 #2: ffffffffb02f5400 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: start_per_cpu_kthreads

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220919144932.3064014-1-npache@redhat.com

Fixes: c8895e271f79 ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&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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