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authorNikolay Kuratov <kniv@yandex-team.ru>2025-02-06 12:01:56 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-03-07 18:25:37 +0100
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tree86aaeec2cc184e03864e224a78282bde4ef7da41 /kernel
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ftrace: Avoid potential division by zero in function_stat_show()
commit a1a7eb89ca0b89dc1c326eeee2596f263291aca3 upstream. Check whether denominator expression x * (x - 1) * 1000 mod {2^32, 2^64} produce zero and skip stddev computation in that case. For now don't care about rec->counter * rec->counter overflow because rec->time * rec->time overflow will likely happen earlier. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Wen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250206090156.1561783-1-kniv@yandex-team.ru Fixes: e31f7939c1c27 ("ftrace: Avoid potential division by zero in function profiler") Signed-off-by: Nikolay Kuratov <kniv@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ftrace.c27
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 71cc1bbfe9aa..dbd375f28ee0 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -541,6 +541,7 @@ static int function_stat_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
static struct trace_seq s;
unsigned long long avg;
unsigned long long stddev;
+ unsigned long long stddev_denom;
#endif
mutex_lock(&ftrace_profile_lock);
@@ -562,23 +563,19 @@ static int function_stat_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
seq_puts(m, " ");
- /* Sample standard deviation (s^2) */
- if (rec->counter <= 1)
- stddev = 0;
- else {
- /*
- * Apply Welford's method:
- * s^2 = 1 / (n * (n-1)) * (n * \Sum (x_i)^2 - (\Sum x_i)^2)
- */
+ /*
+ * Variance formula:
+ * s^2 = 1 / (n * (n-1)) * (n * \Sum (x_i)^2 - (\Sum x_i)^2)
+ * Maybe Welford's method is better here?
+ * Divide only by 1000 for ns^2 -> us^2 conversion.
+ * trace_print_graph_duration will divide by 1000 again.
+ */
+ stddev = 0;
+ stddev_denom = rec->counter * (rec->counter - 1) * 1000;
+ if (stddev_denom) {
stddev = rec->counter * rec->time_squared -
rec->time * rec->time;
-
- /*
- * Divide only 1000 for ns^2 -> us^2 conversion.
- * trace_print_graph_duration will divide 1000 again.
- */
- stddev = div64_ul(stddev,
- rec->counter * (rec->counter - 1) * 1000);
+ stddev = div64_ul(stddev, stddev_denom);
}
trace_seq_init(&s);