commit 2fbdb6d8e0 upstream.
On arm32, size_t is defined to be unsigned int, while PAGE_SIZE is
unsigned long. This hence triggers a compilation warning as min()
asserts the type of two operands to be equal. Casting PAGE_SIZE to size_t
solves this issue and works on other target architectures as well.
Compilation warning details:
kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_splice_read_pipe':
./include/linux/minmax.h:20:28: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
(!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
^
./include/linux/minmax.h:26:4: note: in expansion of macro '__typecheck'
(__typecheck(x, y) && __no_side_effects(x, y))
^~~~~~~~~~~
...
kernel/trace/trace.c:6771:8: note: in expansion of macro 'min'
min((size_t)trace_seq_used(&iter->seq),
^~~
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250526013731.1198030-1-pantaixi@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: f5178c41bb ("tracing: Fix oob write in trace_seq_to_buffer()")
Reviewed-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pan Taixi <pantaixi@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit 196a062641 ]
Binary printing functions are using printf() type of format, and compiler
is not happy about them as is:
kernel/trace/trace.c:3292:9: error: function ‘trace_vbprintk’ might be a candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Werror=suggest-attribute=format]
kernel/trace/trace_seq.c:182:9: error: function ‘trace_seq_bprintf’ might be a candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Werror=suggest-attribute=format]
Fix the compilation errors by adding __printf() attribute.
While at it, move existing __printf() attributes from the implementations
to the declarations. IT also fixes incorrect attribute parameters that are
used for trace_array_printk().
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250321144822.324050-4-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
commit f5178c41bb upstream.
syzbot reported this bug:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in trace_seq_to_buffer kernel/trace/trace.c:1830 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in tracing_splice_read_pipe+0x6be/0xdd0 kernel/trace/trace.c:6822
Write of size 4507 at addr ffff888032b6b000 by task syz.2.320/7260
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7260 Comm: syz.2.320 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1-syzkaller-00301-g3bde70a2c827 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]
print_report+0xc3/0x670 mm/kasan/report.c:521
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0xef/0x1a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
__asan_memcpy+0x3c/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:106
trace_seq_to_buffer kernel/trace/trace.c:1830 [inline]
tracing_splice_read_pipe+0x6be/0xdd0 kernel/trace/trace.c:6822
....
==================================================================
It has been reported that trace_seq_to_buffer() tries to copy more data
than PAGE_SIZE to buf. Therefore, to prevent this, we should use the
smaller of trace_seq_used(&iter->seq) and PAGE_SIZE as an argument.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250422113026.13308-1-aha310510@gmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+c8cd2d2c412b868263fb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 3c56819b14 ("tracing: splice support for tracing_pipe")
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit d23569979c ]
A trace instance may only need to enable specific events. As the eventfs
directory of an instance currently creates all events which adds overhead,
allow internal instances to be created with just the events in systems
that they care about. This currently only deals with systems and not
individual events, but this should bring down the overhead of creating
instances for specific use cases quite bit.
The trace_array_get_by_name() now has another parameter "systems". This
parameter is a const string pointer of a comma/space separated list of
event systems that should be created by the trace_array. (Note if the
trace_array already exists, this parameter is ignored).
The list of systems is saved and if a module is loaded, its events will
not be added unless the system for those events also match the systems
string.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231213093701.03fddec0@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Cc: Arun Easi <aeasi@marvell.com>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Tested-by: Dmytro Maluka <dmaluka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Stable-dep-of: 0b4ffbe488 ("tracing: Correct the refcount if the hist/hist_debug file fails to open")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit afd2627f72 ]
The TP_printk() portion of a trace event is executed at the time a event
is read from the trace. This can happen seconds, minutes, hours, days,
months, years possibly later since the event was recorded. If the print
format contains a dereference to a string via "%s", and that string was
allocated, there's a chance that string could be freed before it is read
by the trace file.
To protect against such bugs, there are two functions that verify the
event. The first one is test_event_printk(), which is called when the
event is created. It reads the TP_printk() format as well as its arguments
to make sure nothing may be dereferencing a pointer that was not copied
into the ring buffer along with the event. If it is, it will trigger a
WARN_ON().
For strings that use "%s", it is not so easy. The string may not reside in
the ring buffer but may still be valid. Strings that are static and part
of the kernel proper which will not be freed for the life of the running
system, are safe to dereference. But to know if it is a pointer to a
static string or to something on the heap can not be determined until the
event is triggered.
This brings us to the second function that tests for the bad dereferencing
of strings, trace_check_vprintf(). It would walk through the printf format
looking for "%s", and when it finds it, it would validate that the pointer
is safe to read. If not, it would produces a WARN_ON() as well and write
into the ring buffer "[UNSAFE-MEMORY]".
The problem with this is how it used va_list to have vsnprintf() handle
all the cases that it didn't need to check. Instead of re-implementing
vsnprintf(), it would make a copy of the format up to the %s part, and
call vsnprintf() with the current va_list ap variable, where the ap would
then be ready to point at the string in question.
For architectures that passed va_list by reference this was possible. For
architectures that passed it by copy it was not. A test_can_verify()
function was used to differentiate between the two, and if it wasn't
possible, it would disable it.
Even for architectures where this was feasible, it was a stretch to rely
on such a method that is undocumented, and could cause issues later on
with new optimizations of the compiler.
Instead, the first function test_event_printk() was updated to look at
"%s" as well. If the "%s" argument is a pointer outside the event in the
ring buffer, it would find the field type of the event that is the problem
and mark the structure with a new flag called "needs_test". The event
itself will be marked by TRACE_EVENT_FL_TEST_STR to let it be known that
this event has a field that needs to be verified before the event can be
printed using the printf format.
When the event fields are created from the field type structure, the
fields would copy the field type's "needs_test" value.
Finally, before being printed, a new function ignore_event() is called
which will check if the event has the TEST_STR flag set (if not, it
returns false). If the flag is set, it then iterates through the events
fields looking for the ones that have the "needs_test" flag set.
Then it uses the offset field from the field structure to find the pointer
in the ring buffer event. It runs the tests to make sure that pointer is
safe to print and if not, it triggers the WARN_ON() and also adds to the
trace output that the event in question has an unsafe memory access.
The ignore_event() makes the trace_check_vprintf() obsolete so it is
removed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wh3uOnqnZPpR0PeLZZtyWbZLboZ7cHLCKRWsocvs9Y7hQ@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.848621576@goodmis.org
Fixes: 5013f454a3 ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 50a3242d84 ]
When the tp_printk kernel command line is used, the trace events go
directly to printk(). It is still checked via the trace_check_vprintf()
function to make sure the pointers of the trace event are legit.
The addition of reading buffers from previous boots required adding a
delta between the addresses of the previous boot and the current boot so
that the pointers in the old buffer can still be used. But this required
adding a trace_array pointer to acquire the delta offsets.
The tp_printk code does not provide a trace_array (tr) pointer, so when
the offsets were examined, a NULL pointer dereference happened and the
kernel crashed.
If the trace_array does not exist, just default the delta offsets to zero,
as that also means the trace event is not being read from a previous boot.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zv3z5UsG_jsO9_Tb@aschofie-mobl2.lan/
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241003104925.4e1b1fd9@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 07714b4bb3 ("tracing: Handle old buffer mappings for event strings and functions")
Reported-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Stable-dep-of: afd2627f72 ("tracing: Check "%s" dereference via the field and not the TP_printk format")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 25f00e40ce ]
Support accessing $argN in the return probe events. This will help users to
record entry data in function return (exit) event for simplfing the function
entry/exit information in one event, and record the result values (e.g.
allocated object/initialized object) at function exit.
For example, if we have a function `int init_foo(struct foo *obj, int param)`
sometimes we want to check how `obj` is initialized. In such case, we can
define a new return event like below;
# echo 'r init_foo retval=$retval param=$arg2 field1=+0($arg1)' >> kprobe_events
Thus it records the function parameter `param` and its result `obj->field1`
(the dereference will be done in the function exit timing) value at once.
This also support fprobe, BTF args and'$arg*'. So if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
is enabled, we can trace both function parameters and the return value
by following command.
# echo 'f target_function%return $arg* $retval' >> dynamic_events
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/170952365552.229804.224112990211602895.stgit@devnote2/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: 373b9338c9 ("uprobe: avoid out-of-bounds memory access of fetching args")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 0b18c852cc ]
The saved_cmdlines have three arrays for mapping PIDs to COMMs:
- map_pid_to_cmdline[]
- map_cmdline_to_pid[]
- saved_cmdlines
The map_pid_to_cmdline[] is PID_MAX_DEFAULT in size and holds the index
into the other arrays. The map_cmdline_to_pid[] is a mapping back to the
full pid as it can be larger than PID_MAX_DEFAULT. And the
saved_cmdlines[] just holds the COMMs associated to the pids.
Currently the map_pid_to_cmdline[] and saved_cmdlines[] are allocated
together (in reality the saved_cmdlines is just in the memory of the
rounding of the allocation of the structure as it is always allocated in
powers of two). The map_cmdline_to_pid[] array is allocated separately.
Since the rounding to a power of two is rather large (it allows for 8000
elements in saved_cmdlines), also include the map_cmdline_to_pid[] array.
(This drops it to 6000 by default, which is still plenty for most use
cases). This saves even more memory as the map_cmdline_to_pid[] array
doesn't need to be allocated.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240212174011.068211d9@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240220140703.182330529@goodmis.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mete Durlu <meted@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 44dc5c41b5 ("tracing: Fix wasted memory in saved_cmdlines logic")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
commit 49aa8a1f4d upstream.
In __tracing_open(), when max latency tracers took place on the cpu,
the time start of its buffer would be updated, then event entries with
timestamps being earlier than start of the buffer would be skipped
(see tracing_iter_reset()).
Softlockup will occur if the kernel is non-preemptible and too many
entries were skipped in the loop that reset every cpu buffer, so add
cond_resched() to avoid it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2f26ebd549 ("tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240827124654.3817443-1-zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit e5d7c19165 upstream.
The .release() function does not get called until all readers of a file
descriptor are finished.
If a thread is blocked on reading a file descriptor in ring_buffer_wait(),
and another thread closes the file descriptor, it will not wake up the
other thread as ring_buffer_wake_waiters() is called by .release(), and
that will not get called until the .read() is finished.
The issue originally showed up in trace-cmd, but the readers are actually
other processes with their own file descriptors. So calling close() would wake
up the other tasks because they are blocked on another descriptor then the
one that was closed(). But there's other wake ups that solve that issue.
When a thread is blocked on a read, it can still hang even when another
thread closed its descriptor.
This is what the .flush() callback is for. Have the .flush() wake up the
readers.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240308202432.107909457@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linke li <lilinke99@qq.com>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Fixes: f3ddb74ad0 ("tracing: Wake up ring buffer waiters on closing of the file")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 5790b1fb3d upstream.
Instead of having a descriptor for every file represented in the eventfs
directory, only have the directory itself represented. Change the API to
send in a list of entries that represent all the files in the directory
(but not other directories). The entry list contains a name and a callback
function that will be used to create the files when they are accessed.
struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
const struct eventfs_entry *entries,
int size, void *data);
is used for the top level eventfs directory, and returns an eventfs_inode
that will be used by:
struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct eventfs_inode *parent,
const struct eventfs_entry *entries,
int size, void *data);
where both of the above take an array of struct eventfs_entry entries for
every file that is in the directory.
The entries are defined by:
typedef int (*eventfs_callback)(const char *name, umode_t *mode, void **data,
const struct file_operations **fops);
struct eventfs_entry {
const char *name;
eventfs_callback callback;
};
Where the name is the name of the file and the callback gets called when
the file is being created. The callback passes in the name (in case the
same callback is used for multiple files), a pointer to the mode, data and
fops. The data will be pointing to the data that was passed in
eventfs_create_dir() or eventfs_create_events_dir() but may be overridden
to point to something else, as it will be used to point to the
inode->i_private that is created. The information passed back from the
callback is used to create the dentry/inode.
If the callback fills the data and the file should be created, it must
return a positive number. On zero or negative, the file is ignored.
This logic may also be used as a prototype to convert entire pseudo file
systems into just-in-time allocation.
The "show_events_dentry" file has been updated to show the directories,
and any files they have.
With just the eventfs_file allocations:
Before after deltas for meminfo (in kB):
MemFree: -14360
MemAvailable: -14260
Buffers: 40
Cached: 24
Active: 44
Inactive: 48
Inactive(anon): 28
Active(file): 44
Inactive(file): 20
Dirty: -4
AnonPages: 28
Mapped: 4
KReclaimable: 132
Slab: 1604
SReclaimable: 132
SUnreclaim: 1472
Committed_AS: 12
Before after deltas for slabinfo:
<slab>: <objects> [ * <size> = <total>]
ext4_inode_cache 27 [* 1184 = 31968 ]
extent_status 102 [* 40 = 4080 ]
tracefs_inode_cache 144 [* 656 = 94464 ]
buffer_head 39 [* 104 = 4056 ]
shmem_inode_cache 49 [* 800 = 39200 ]
filp -53 [* 256 = -13568 ]
dentry 251 [* 192 = 48192 ]
lsm_file_cache 277 [* 32 = 8864 ]
vm_area_struct -14 [* 184 = -2576 ]
trace_event_file 1748 [* 88 = 153824 ]
kmalloc-1k 35 [* 1024 = 35840 ]
kmalloc-256 49 [* 256 = 12544 ]
kmalloc-192 -28 [* 192 = -5376 ]
kmalloc-128 -30 [* 128 = -3840 ]
kmalloc-96 10581 [* 96 = 1015776 ]
kmalloc-64 3056 [* 64 = 195584 ]
kmalloc-32 1291 [* 32 = 41312 ]
kmalloc-16 2310 [* 16 = 36960 ]
kmalloc-8 9216 [* 8 = 73728 ]
Free memory dropped by 14,360 kB
Available memory dropped by 14,260 kB
Total slab additions in size: 1,771,032 bytes
With this change:
Before after deltas for meminfo (in kB):
MemFree: -12084
MemAvailable: -11976
Buffers: 32
Cached: 32
Active: 72
Inactive: 168
Inactive(anon): 176
Active(file): 72
Inactive(file): -8
Dirty: 24
AnonPages: 196
Mapped: 8
KReclaimable: 148
Slab: 836
SReclaimable: 148
SUnreclaim: 688
Committed_AS: 324
Before after deltas for slabinfo:
<slab>: <objects> [ * <size> = <total>]
tracefs_inode_cache 144 [* 656 = 94464 ]
shmem_inode_cache -23 [* 800 = -18400 ]
filp -92 [* 256 = -23552 ]
dentry 179 [* 192 = 34368 ]
lsm_file_cache -3 [* 32 = -96 ]
vm_area_struct -13 [* 184 = -2392 ]
trace_event_file 1748 [* 88 = 153824 ]
kmalloc-1k -49 [* 1024 = -50176 ]
kmalloc-256 -27 [* 256 = -6912 ]
kmalloc-128 1864 [* 128 = 238592 ]
kmalloc-64 4685 [* 64 = 299840 ]
kmalloc-32 -72 [* 32 = -2304 ]
kmalloc-16 256 [* 16 = 4096 ]
total = 721352
Free memory dropped by 12,084 kB
Available memory dropped by 11,976 kB
Total slab additions in size: 721,352 bytes
That's over 2 MB in savings per instance for free and available memory,
and over 1 MB in savings per instance of slab memory.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231003184059.4924468e@gandalf.local.home
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231004165007.43d79161@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 44dc5c41b5 upstream.
While looking at improving the saved_cmdlines cache I found a huge amount
of wasted memory that should be used for the cmdlines.
The tracing data saves pids during the trace. At sched switch, if a trace
occurred, it will save the comm of the task that did the trace. This is
saved in a "cache" that maps pids to comms and exposed to user space via
the /sys/kernel/tracing/saved_cmdlines file. Currently it only caches by
default 128 comms.
The structure that uses this creates an array to store the pids using
PID_MAX_DEFAULT (which is usually set to 32768). This causes the structure
to be of the size of 131104 bytes on 64 bit machines.
In hex: 131104 = 0x20020, and since the kernel allocates generic memory in
powers of two, the kernel would allocate 0x40000 or 262144 bytes to store
this structure. That leaves 131040 bytes of wasted space.
Worse, the structure points to an allocated array to store the comm names,
which is 16 bytes times the amount of names to save (currently 128), which
is 2048 bytes. Instead of allocating a separate array, make the structure
end with a variable length string and use the extra space for that.
This is similar to a recommendation that Linus had made about eventfs_inode names:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240130190355.11486-5-torvalds@linux-foundation.org/
Instead of allocating a separate string array to hold the saved comms,
have the structure end with: char saved_cmdlines[]; and round up to the
next power of two over sizeof(struct saved_cmdline_buffers) + num_cmdlines * TASK_COMM_LEN
It will use this extra space for the saved_cmdline portion.
Now, instead of saving only 128 comms by default, by using this wasted
space at the end of the structure it can save over 8000 comms and even
saves space by removing the need for allocating the other array.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240209063622.1f7b6d5f@rorschach.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mete Durlu <meted@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 939c7a4f04 ("tracing: Introduce saved_cmdlines_size file")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit 1cc111b9cd ]
KASAN report following issue. The root cause is when opening 'hist'
file of an instance and accessing 'trace_event_file' in hist_show(),
but 'trace_event_file' has been freed due to the instance being removed.
'hist_debug' file has the same problem. To fix it, call
tracing_{open,release}_file_tr() in file_operations callback to have
the ref count and avoid 'trace_event_file' being freed.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hist_show+0x11e0/0x1278
Read of size 8 at addr ffff242541e336b8 by task head/190
CPU: 4 PID: 190 Comm: head Not tainted 6.7.0-rc5-g26aff849438c #133
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x98/0xf8
show_stack+0x1c/0x30
dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x58
print_report+0xf0/0x5a0
kasan_report+0x80/0xc0
__asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1c/0x28
hist_show+0x11e0/0x1278
seq_read_iter+0x344/0xd78
seq_read+0x128/0x1c0
vfs_read+0x198/0x6c8
ksys_read+0xf4/0x1e0
__arm64_sys_read+0x70/0xa8
invoke_syscall+0x70/0x260
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x280
do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
el0_svc+0x34/0x68
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
el0t_64_sync+0x168/0x170
Allocated by task 188:
kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x50
kasan_set_track+0x28/0x38
kasan_save_alloc_info+0x20/0x30
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80
kmem_cache_alloc+0x15c/0x4a8
trace_create_new_event+0x84/0x348
__trace_add_new_event+0x18/0x88
event_trace_add_tracer+0xc4/0x1a0
trace_array_create_dir+0x6c/0x100
trace_array_create+0x2e8/0x568
instance_mkdir+0x48/0x80
tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x90/0xe8
vfs_mkdir+0x3c4/0x610
do_mkdirat+0x144/0x200
__arm64_sys_mkdirat+0x8c/0xc0
invoke_syscall+0x70/0x260
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x280
do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
el0_svc+0x34/0x68
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
el0t_64_sync+0x168/0x170
Freed by task 191:
kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x50
kasan_set_track+0x28/0x38
kasan_save_free_info+0x34/0x58
__kasan_slab_free+0xe4/0x158
kmem_cache_free+0x19c/0x508
event_file_put+0xa0/0x120
remove_event_file_dir+0x180/0x320
event_trace_del_tracer+0xb0/0x180
__remove_instance+0x224/0x508
instance_rmdir+0x44/0x78
tracefs_syscall_rmdir+0xbc/0x140
vfs_rmdir+0x1cc/0x4c8
do_rmdir+0x220/0x2b8
__arm64_sys_unlinkat+0xc0/0x100
invoke_syscall+0x70/0x260
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x280
do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
el0_svc+0x34/0x68
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
el0t_64_sync+0x168/0x170
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231214012153.676155-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
commit 39a7dc23a1 upstream.
If an application blocks on the snapshot or snapshot_raw files, expecting
to be woken up when a snapshot occurs, it will not happen. Or it may
happen with an unexpected result.
That result is that the application will be reading the main buffer
instead of the snapshot buffer. That is because when the snapshot occurs,
the main and snapshot buffers are swapped. But the reader has a descriptor
still pointing to the buffer that it originally connected to.
This is fine for the main buffer readers, as they may be blocked waiting
for a watermark to be hit, and when a snapshot occurs, the data that the
main readers want is now on the snapshot buffer.
But for waiters of the snapshot buffer, they are waiting for an event to
occur that will trigger the snapshot and they can then consume it quickly
to save the snapshot before the next snapshot occurs. But to do this, they
need to read the new snapshot buffer, not the old one that is now
receiving new data.
Also, it does not make sense to have a watermark "buffer_percent" on the
snapshot buffer, as the snapshot buffer is static and does not receive new
data except all at once.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231228095149.77f5b45d@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fixes: debdd57f51 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit d06aff1cb1 upstream.
The snapshot buffer is to mimic the main buffer so that when a snapshot is
needed, the snapshot and main buffer are swapped. When the snapshot buffer
is allocated, it is set to the minimal size that the ring buffer may be at
and still functional. When it is allocated it becomes the same size as the
main ring buffer, and when the main ring buffer changes in size, it should
do.
Currently, the resize only updates the snapshot buffer if it's used by the
current tracer (ie. the preemptirqsoff tracer). But it needs to be updated
anytime it is allocated.
When changing the size of the main buffer, instead of looking to see if
the current tracer is utilizing the snapshot buffer, just check if it is
allocated to know if it should be updated or not.
Also fix typo in comment just above the code change.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231210225447.48476a6a@rorschach.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: ad909e21bb ("tracing: Add internal tracing_snapshot() functions")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit c0591b1ccc upstream.
Function trace_buffered_event_disable() is responsible for freeing pages
backing buffered events and this process can run concurrently with
trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve().
The following race is currently possible:
* Function trace_buffered_event_disable() is called on CPU 0. It
increments trace_buffered_event_cnt on each CPU and waits via
synchronize_rcu() for each user of trace_buffered_event to complete.
* After synchronize_rcu() is finished, function
trace_buffered_event_disable() has the exclusive access to
trace_buffered_event. All counters trace_buffered_event_cnt are at 1
and all pointers trace_buffered_event are still valid.
* At this point, on a different CPU 1, the execution reaches
trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve(). The function calls
preempt_disable_notrace() and only now enters an RCU read-side
critical section. The function proceeds and reads a still valid
pointer from trace_buffered_event[CPU1] into the local variable
"entry". However, it doesn't yet read trace_buffered_event_cnt[CPU1]
which happens later.
* Function trace_buffered_event_disable() continues. It frees
trace_buffered_event[CPU1] and decrements
trace_buffered_event_cnt[CPU1] back to 0.
* Function trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() continues. It reads and
increments trace_buffered_event_cnt[CPU1] from 0 to 1. This makes it
believe that it can use the "entry" that it already obtained but the
pointer is now invalid and any access results in a use-after-free.
Fix the problem by making a second synchronize_rcu() call after all
trace_buffered_event values are set to NULL. This waits on all potential
users in trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() that still read a previous
pointer from trace_buffered_event.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231127151248.7232-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205161736.19663-4-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0fc1b09ff1 ("tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 7fed14f7ac upstream.
The following warning appears when using buffered events:
[ 203.556451] WARNING: CPU: 53 PID: 10220 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3912 ring_buffer_discard_commit+0x2eb/0x420
[...]
[ 203.670690] CPU: 53 PID: 10220 Comm: stress-ng-sysin Tainted: G E 6.7.0-rc2-default #4 56e6d0fcf5581e6e51eaaecbdaec2a2338c80f3a
[ 203.670704] Hardware name: Intel Corp. GROVEPORT/GROVEPORT, BIOS GVPRCRB1.86B.0016.D04.1705030402 05/03/2017
[ 203.670709] RIP: 0010:ring_buffer_discard_commit+0x2eb/0x420
[ 203.735721] Code: 4c 8b 4a 50 48 8b 42 48 49 39 c1 0f 84 b3 00 00 00 49 83 e8 01 75 b1 48 8b 42 10 f0 ff 40 08 0f 0b e9 fc fe ff ff f0 ff 47 08 <0f> 0b e9 77 fd ff ff 48 8b 42 10 f0 ff 40 08 0f 0b e9 f5 fe ff ff
[ 203.735734] RSP: 0018:ffffb4ae4f7b7d80 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 203.735745] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffb4ae4f7b7de0 RCX: ffff8ac10662c000
[ 203.735754] RDX: ffff8ac0c750be00 RSI: ffff8ac10662c000 RDI: ffff8ac0c004d400
[ 203.781832] RBP: ffff8ac0c039cea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 203.781839] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 203.781842] R13: ffff8ac10662c000 R14: ffff8ac0c004d400 R15: ffff8ac10662c008
[ 203.781846] FS: 00007f4cd8a67740(0000) GS:ffff8ad798880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 203.781851] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 203.781855] CR2: 0000559766a74028 CR3: 00000001804c4000 CR4: 00000000001506f0
[ 203.781862] Call Trace:
[ 203.781870] <TASK>
[ 203.851949] trace_event_buffer_commit+0x1ea/0x250
[ 203.851967] trace_event_raw_event_sys_enter+0x83/0xe0
[ 203.851983] syscall_trace_enter.isra.0+0x182/0x1a0
[ 203.851990] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0xe0
[ 203.852075] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
[ 203.852090] RIP: 0033:0x7f4cd870fa77
[ 203.982920] Code: 00 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 66 90 b8 89 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d e9 43 0e 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[ 203.982932] RSP: 002b:00007fff99717dd8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000089
[ 203.982942] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000558ea1d7b6f0 RCX: 00007f4cd870fa77
[ 203.982948] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007fff99717de0 RDI: 0000558ea1d7b6f0
[ 203.982957] RBP: 00007fff99717de0 R08: 00007fff997180e0 R09: 00007fff997180e0
[ 203.982962] R10: 00007fff997180e0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fff99717f40
[ 204.049239] R13: 00007fff99718590 R14: 0000558e9f2127a8 R15: 00007fff997180b0
[ 204.049256] </TASK>
For instance, it can be triggered by running these two commands in
parallel:
$ while true; do
echo hist:key=id.syscall:val=hitcount > \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger;
done
$ stress-ng --sysinfo $(nproc)
The warning indicates that the current ring_buffer_per_cpu is not in the
committing state. It happens because the active ring_buffer_event
doesn't actually come from the ring_buffer_per_cpu but is allocated from
trace_buffered_event.
The bug is in function trace_buffered_event_disable() where the
following normally happens:
* The code invokes disable_trace_buffered_event() via
smp_call_function_many() and follows it by synchronize_rcu(). This
increments the per-CPU variable trace_buffered_event_cnt on each
target CPU and grants trace_buffered_event_disable() the exclusive
access to the per-CPU variable trace_buffered_event.
* Maintenance is performed on trace_buffered_event, all per-CPU event
buffers get freed.
* The code invokes enable_trace_buffered_event() via
smp_call_function_many(). This decrements trace_buffered_event_cnt and
releases the access to trace_buffered_event.
A problem is that smp_call_function_many() runs a given function on all
target CPUs except on the current one. The following can then occur:
* Task X executing trace_buffered_event_disable() runs on CPU 0.
* The control reaches synchronize_rcu() and the task gets rescheduled on
another CPU 1.
* The RCU synchronization finishes. At this point,
trace_buffered_event_disable() has the exclusive access to all
trace_buffered_event variables except trace_buffered_event[CPU0]
because trace_buffered_event_cnt[CPU0] is never incremented and if the
buffer is currently unused, remains set to 0.
* A different task Y is scheduled on CPU 0 and hits a trace event. The
code in trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() sees that
trace_buffered_event_cnt[CPU0] is set to 0 and decides the use the
buffer provided by trace_buffered_event[CPU0].
* Task X continues its execution in trace_buffered_event_disable(). The
code incorrectly frees the event buffer pointed by
trace_buffered_event[CPU0] and resets the variable to NULL.
* Task Y writes event data to the now freed buffer and later detects the
created inconsistency.
The issue is observable since commit dea499781a ("tracing: Fix warning
in trace_buffered_event_disable()") which moved the call of
trace_buffered_event_disable() in __ftrace_event_enable_disable()
earlier, prior to invoking call->class->reg(.. TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER ..).
The underlying problem in trace_buffered_event_disable() is however
present since the original implementation in commit 0fc1b09ff1
("tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events").
Fix the problem by replacing the two smp_call_function_many() calls with
on_each_cpu_mask() which invokes a given callback on all CPUs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231127151248.7232-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205161736.19663-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0fc1b09ff1 ("tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events")
Fixes: dea499781a ("tracing: Fix warning in trace_buffered_event_disable()")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit b538bf7d0e upstream.
It use to be that only the top level instance had a snapshot buffer (for
latency tracers like wakeup and irqsoff). When stopping a tracer in an
instance would not disable the snapshot buffer. This could have some
unintended consequences if the irqsoff tracer is enabled.
Consolidate the tracing_start/stop() with tracing_start/stop_tr() so that
all instances behave the same. The tracing_start/stop() functions will
just call their respective tracing_start/stop_tr() with the global_array
passed in.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205220011.041220035@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 6d9b3fa5e7 ("tracing: Move tracing_max_latency into trace_array")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 7be76461f3 upstream.
It use to be that only the top level instance had a snapshot buffer (for
latency tracers like wakeup and irqsoff). The update of the ring buffer
size would check if the instance was the top level and if so, it would
also update the snapshot buffer as it needs to be the same as the main
buffer.
Now that lower level instances also has a snapshot buffer, they too need
to update their snapshot buffer sizes when the main buffer is changed,
otherwise the following can be triggered:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# echo 1500 > buffer_size_kb
# mkdir instances/foo
# echo irqsoff > instances/foo/current_tracer
# echo 1000 > instances/foo/buffer_size_kb
Produces:
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 856 at kernel/trace/trace.c:1938 update_max_tr_single.part.0+0x27d/0x320
Which is:
ret = ring_buffer_swap_cpu(tr->max_buffer.buffer, tr->array_buffer.buffer, cpu);
if (ret == -EBUSY) {
[..]
}
WARN_ON_ONCE(ret && ret != -EAGAIN && ret != -EBUSY); <== here
That's because ring_buffer_swap_cpu() has:
int ret = -EINVAL;
[..]
/* At least make sure the two buffers are somewhat the same */
if (cpu_buffer_a->nr_pages != cpu_buffer_b->nr_pages)
goto out;
[..]
out:
return ret;
}
Instead, update all instances' snapshot buffer sizes when their main
buffer size is updated.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205220010.454662151@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 6d9b3fa5e7 ("tracing: Move tracing_max_latency into trace_array")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit 34209fe83e ]
Function trace_buffered_event_disable() produces an unexpected warning
when the previous call to trace_buffered_event_enable() fails to
allocate pages for buffered events.
The situation can occur as follows:
* The counter trace_buffered_event_ref is at 0.
* The soft mode gets enabled for some event and
trace_buffered_event_enable() is called. The function increments
trace_buffered_event_ref to 1 and starts allocating event pages.
* The allocation fails for some page and trace_buffered_event_disable()
is called for cleanup.
* Function trace_buffered_event_disable() decrements
trace_buffered_event_ref back to 0, recognizes that it was the last
use of buffered events and frees all allocated pages.
* The control goes back to trace_buffered_event_enable() which returns.
The caller of trace_buffered_event_enable() has no information that
the function actually failed.
* Some time later, the soft mode is disabled for the same event.
Function trace_buffered_event_disable() is called. It warns on
"WARN_ON_ONCE(!trace_buffered_event_ref)" and returns.
Buffered events are just an optimization and can handle failures. Make
trace_buffered_event_enable() exit on the first failure and left any
cleanup later to when trace_buffered_event_disable() is called.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231127151248.7232-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205161736.19663-3-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Fixes: 0fc1b09ff1 ("tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
commit bb32500fb9 upstream
The following can crash the kernel:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# echo 'p:sched schedule' > kprobe_events
# exec 5>>events/kprobes/sched/enable
# > kprobe_events
# exec 5>&-
The above commands:
1. Change directory to the tracefs directory
2. Create a kprobe event (doesn't matter what one)
3. Open bash file descriptor 5 on the enable file of the kprobe event
4. Delete the kprobe event (removes the files too)
5. Close the bash file descriptor 5
The above causes a crash!
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 6 PID: 877 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.5.0-rc4-test-00008-g2c6b6b1029d4-dirty #186
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:tracing_release_file_tr+0xc/0x50
What happens here is that the kprobe event creates a trace_event_file
"file" descriptor that represents the file in tracefs to the event. It
maintains state of the event (is it enabled for the given instance?).
Opening the "enable" file gets a reference to the event "file" descriptor
via the open file descriptor. When the kprobe event is deleted, the file is
also deleted from the tracefs system which also frees the event "file"
descriptor.
But as the tracefs file is still opened by user space, it will not be
totally removed until the final dput() is called on it. But this is not
true with the event "file" descriptor that is already freed. If the user
does a write to or simply closes the file descriptor it will reference the
event "file" descriptor that was just freed, causing a use-after-free bug.
To solve this, add a ref count to the event "file" descriptor as well as a
new flag called "FREED". The "file" will not be freed until the last
reference is released. But the FREE flag will be set when the event is
removed to prevent any more modifications to that event from happening,
even if there's still a reference to the event "file" descriptor.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231031000031.1e705592@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231031122453.7a48b923@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Fixes: f5ca233e2e ("tracing: Increase trace array ref count on enable and filter files")
Reported-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Replace PREEMPT_LAZY with PREEMPT_AUTO. PREEMPT_AUTO is an attempt
to simplify various preemption models and making the kernel more
preemtible. There is currently a discussion upstream.
This requires CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY which restricts it to X86 while
LAZY_PREEMPT was also supported by ARM* and PowerPC*.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87jzshhexi.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Add missing LOCKDOWN checks for eventfs callers
When LOCKDOWN is active for tracing, it causes inconsistent state
when some functions succeed and others fail.
- Use dput() to free the top level eventfs descriptor
There was a race between accesses and freeing it.
- Fix a long standing bug that eventfs exposed due to changing timings
by dynamically creating files. That is, If a event file is opened for
an instance, there's nothing preventing the instance from being
removed which will make accessing the files cause use-after-free
bugs.
- Fix a ring buffer race that happens when iterating over the ring
buffer while writers are active. Check to make sure not to read the
event meta data if it's beyond the end of the ring buffer sub buffer.
- Fix the print trigger that disappeared because the test to create it
was looking for the event dir field being filled, but now it has the
"ef" field filled for the eventfs structure.
- Remove the unused "dir" field from the event structure.
- Fix the order of the trace_dynamic_info as it had it backwards for
the offset and len fields for which one was for which endianess.
- Fix NULL pointer dereference with eventfs_remove_rec()
If an allocation fails in one of the eventfs_add_*() functions, the
caller of it in event_subsystem_dir() or event_create_dir() assigns
the result to the structure. But it's assigning the ERR_PTR and not
NULL. This was passed to eventfs_remove_rec() which expects either a
good pointer or a NULL, not ERR_PTR. The fix is to not assign the
ERR_PTR to the structure, but to keep it NULL on error.
- Fix list_for_each_rcu() to use list_for_each_srcu() in
dcache_dir_open_wrapper(). One iteration of the code used RCU but
because it had to call sleepable code, it had to be changed to use
SRCU, but one of the iterations was missed.
- Fix synthetic event print function to use "as_u64" instead of passing
in a pointer to the union. To fix big/little endian issues, the u64
that represented several types was turned into a union to define the
types properly.
* tag 'trace-v6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
eventfs: Fix the NULL pointer dereference bug in eventfs_remove_rec()
tracefs/eventfs: Use list_for_each_srcu() in dcache_dir_open_wrapper()
tracing/synthetic: Print out u64 values properly
tracing/synthetic: Fix order of struct trace_dynamic_info
selftests/ftrace: Fix dependencies for some of the synthetic event tests
tracing: Remove unused trace_event_file dir field
tracing: Use the new eventfs descriptor for print trigger
ring-buffer: Do not attempt to read past "commit"
tracefs/eventfs: Free top level files on removal
ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize()
tracing: Have event inject files inc the trace array ref count
tracing: Have option files inc the trace array ref count
tracing: Have current_trace inc the trace array ref count
tracing: Have tracing_max_latency inc the trace array ref count
tracing: Increase trace array ref count on enable and filter files
tracefs/eventfs: Use dput to free the toplevel events directory
tracefs/eventfs: Add missing lockdown checks
tracefs: Add missing lockdown check to tracefs_create_dir()
It has become an obsession to mitigate the determinism vs. throughput
loss of RT. Looking at the mainline semantics of preemption points
gives a hint why RT sucks throughput wise for ordinary SCHED_OTHER
tasks. One major issue is the wakeup of tasks which are right away
preempting the waking task while the waking task holds a lock on which
the woken task will block right after having preempted the wakee. In
mainline this is prevented due to the implicit preemption disable of
spin/rw_lock held regions. On RT this is not possible due to the fully
preemptible nature of sleeping spinlocks.
Though for a SCHED_OTHER task preempting another SCHED_OTHER task this
is really not a correctness issue. RT folks are concerned about
SCHED_FIFO/RR tasks preemption and not about the purely fairness
driven SCHED_OTHER preemption latencies.
So I introduced a lazy preemption mechanism which only applies to
SCHED_OTHER tasks preempting another SCHED_OTHER task. Aside of the
existing preempt_count each tasks sports now a preempt_lazy_count
which is manipulated on lock acquiry and release. This is slightly
incorrect as for lazyness reasons I coupled this on
migrate_disable/enable so some other mechanisms get the same treatment
(e.g. get_cpu_light).
Now on the scheduler side instead of setting NEED_RESCHED this sets
NEED_RESCHED_LAZY in case of a SCHED_OTHER/SCHED_OTHER preemption and
therefor allows to exit the waking task the lock held region before
the woken task preempts. That also works better for cross CPU wakeups
as the other side can stay in the adaptive spinning loop.
For RT class preemption there is no change. This simply sets
NEED_RESCHED and forgoes the lazy preemption counter.
Initial test do not expose any observable latency increasement, but
history shows that I've been proven wrong before :)
The lazy preemption mode is per default on, but with
CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG enabled it can be disabled via:
# echo NO_PREEMPT_LAZY >/sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
and reenabled via
# echo PREEMPT_LAZY >/sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
The test results so far are very machine and workload dependent, but
there is a clear trend that it enhances the non RT workload
performance.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The check to create the print event "trigger" was using the obsolete "dir"
value of the trace_event_file to determine if it should create the trigger
or not. But that value will now be NULL because it uses the event file
descriptor.
Change it to test the "ef" field of the trace_event_file structure so that
the trace_marker "trigger" file appears again.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230908022001.371815239@goodmis.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com>
Fixes: 27152bceea ("eventfs: Move tracing/events to eventfs")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Clark Williams