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12 daysMerge tag 'trace-v7.3-rc7' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: - Fix NULL dereference when copying histogram field variable If event_hist_trigger_parse() creates an action that uses one of pseudo fields for its keys, the hist_data field element will have a NULL for its field member. When looking to match that key, the lookup uses key_field->field->name which will dereference a NULL pointer. Instead use the helper function that handles such cases: expr_field_str(). - Take the trace_types_lock when dropping the buffer_meta reference The tracing_buffer_meta_open() error return drops the trace_array reference with __trace_array_put() instead of trace_array_put() where the former doesn't take the lock and the latter does. - Fix NULL pointer dereference when reading per_cpu/cpuN/buffer_meta These files are created for every possible CPU. But it only contains data for CPUs that have come online. If one is read for a CPU that hasn't come online yet, it triggers a NULL pointer dereference. Have reading of CPUs that have not come on line yet return -ENODEV. - Fix an out-of-bounds shift in the log2 histogram modifier Histograms can take a log2 modifier to have the buckets defined by log2 increments. If a shift is greater than ULONG_MAX or above 2^63, the key falls into a lower order bucket. Use order_base_2() instead of "ilog2(n - 1) + 1" to have all overflowed keys go into the top bucket. - Fix the persistent ring buffer rb_meta_subbuf_idx() accounting The algorithm for finding the index of a sub-buffer in a persistent ring buffer buffer did not take into account the meta data at the beginning of the buffer causing the wrong index to be returned. As rb_subbufs_from_meta() does the proper accounting to find the first sub-buffer, use that function instead of repeating the logic (incorrectly) and make the calculations based off of that. - Fix the symbol name checks for the remote buffer code The remote ring buffer has a build time check to make sure its not using any code that will not be in the hypervisor. For various architectures, there has been false positive reports from this checker. Fix them. - Fix false warning in ring_buffer_map_get_reader() There is a WARN_ON() after rb_get_reader_page() if no reader is returned. But there are legitimate cases where this can happen. Remove the WARN_ON() and also a check that covers one of the legitimate cases that tries to exit out early. There's no need for the check if it just simply allows the return of NULL from rb_get_reader_page(). - Fix the ignored return value from resize_buffer_duplicate_size() Some clean up of the code in tracing_snapshot_write() removed checking the return value of resize_buffer_duplicate_size() and if that failed it would not be detected. - Fix the histogram timestamps for buffered events The histogram timestamps are taken from the events that are recorded. It currently reads ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() but if the event is buffered it does not read it properly. Use tracing_event_time_stamp() which handles both buffered and normal events. - Do not initialize tracefs if tracing is disabled at boot If tracing fails to allocate or some other error is detected, tracing_disabled is set. Do not initialize tracefs in this case as it may expect data to be initialized but is not. - Free eventfs inode after an RCU grace period Currently eventfs_inodes are freed after a SRCU grace period as the iterations in the code use SRCU. There are locations that the inode may still be accessed from the VFS that uses RCU which does not have the same synchronization as SRCU. Add an RCU wait before free eventfs inodes. - Do not fail persistent and remote buffers under memory pressure As persistent and remote buffers have their own pre-allocated memory, there's no reason to check how much memory is available before created them. By checking the memory pressure, these buffers may fail to be created even though their memory is already present. - Account for subbuffer size when checking how much memory is available Before allocating a ring buffer, the size is checked against the current memory pressure of the system. But it assumes every sub-buffer is of page size. This is no longer the case. Use the actual sub-buffer size when calculating how much memory will be used. - Reject non-stack fields for synthetic stacktrace fields Stack traces are special fields and the checks currently do not do enough to make sure that the fields being processed as stack traces are indeed stack traces. Update the logic to properly detect what is or is not a stack trace. - Fix a crash in print_graph_function_event() When a tracer does not define static or default flags the tr->current_trace_flags is set to NULL. If the ring buffer is not cleared when switching tracers, the previous tracers events could be read. The function_graph entries will dereference the tr->current_trace_flags and cause a crash. Set the tr->current_trace_flags to a empty set of flags to prevent it from being NULL. - Separate tracing filter predicate count from allocation The amount allocated for the predicate program is the number of predicates defined plus two for adding "true" and "false" at the end. The nr_preds is incremented by two to accommodate the booleans but is then used as the limit check for number of predicates. This is incorrect as it is now two higher than what is expected. Use a separate variable for the size of the predicate array. - Fix the filter operator stack check The operator stack increments the pointer and then writes the content onto the stack. The check for overflow compared the current pointer to see if it was greater than the stack size before doing so. This is an off by 2 error as the write will be at the size - 1 and the compare is done before the increment. Adjust the check accordingly. * tag 'trace-v7.3-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: tracing: Check operator stack capacity before pushing tracing: Keep the predicate limit separate from program capacity tracing: Fix crash in print_graph_function_event() tracing/histograms: Reject non-stacktrace fields for synthetic stacktrace fields ring-buffer: Use subbuf_order in available memory estimation ring-buffer: Skip si_mem_available() for persistent and remote buffers eventfs: Free the eventfs_inode after an rcu grace period too tracing: Do not initialize tracefs work if tracing is disabled tracing: Fix hist trigger timestamps for buffered events tracing: Fix ignored return value of resize_buffer_duplicate_size() ring-buffer: Fix false warning in ring_buffer_map_get_reader() tracing: Fix simple_ring_buffer undef check on sparc64 tracing: Fix simple_ring_buffer undef check on parisc tracing: Fix empty symbol names in simple_ring_buffer undef check ring-buffer: Fix the sub-buffer array base in rb_meta_subbuf_idx() tracing: Fix the shift out of bounds in the log2 histogram modifier ring-buffer: Do not show buffer_meta for CPUs without a buffer tracing: Take trace_types_lock when dropping the buffer_meta reference tracing: Fix NULL dereference when copying keys for a field variable
13 daystracing: Check operator stack capacity before pushingTaeyang Lee
predicate_parse() uses the first operator stack entry before processing any opening parentheses. A push then increments top before writing. The existing check still permits that write when top already points to the last allocated entry, which can access beyond the operator stack. Reject the push when top reaches the last allocated entry. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 39f7c41c908b ("tracing/filters: Enable filtering a cpumask field by another cpumask") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/atELO9L0I9kg5CpC@Taeyangs-MacBook-Pro.local Signed-off-by: Taeyang Lee <0wn@theori.io> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
13 daystracing: Keep the predicate limit separate from program capacityTaeyang Lee
predicate_parse() adds two to nr_preds to reserve the terminal TRUE and FALSE entries. It also uses that increased value as the limit for parsed predicates. If the initial count is smaller than the number actually parsed, the program can fill the allocation and subsequent accesses can go past its end. Keep nr_preds as the predicate limit and use a separate value for the allocation size. This leaves space for both terminal entries and a zeroed entry when parsing stops at the limit. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 39f7c41c908b ("tracing/filters: Enable filtering a cpumask field by another cpumask") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/atELCd1XjKVhrkFL@Taeyangs-MacBook-Pro.local Signed-off-by: Taeyang Lee <0wn@theori.io> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
13 daystracing: Fix crash in print_graph_function_event()Hao Ge
tracing_set_tracer() assigns the flags of the newly selected tracer with: tr->current_trace_flags = t->flags ? : t->tracer->flags; If the new tracer defines neither static flags nor default flags, like hwlat, irqsoff or wakeup, add_tracer() has no per instance flags copy for it, and both operands are NULL, so tr->current_trace_flags ends up being NULL as well. The ring buffer is not cleared when switching tracers: it is reset inside tracer_init(), after current_trace_flags was already assigned. If the buffer still holds function_graph entries of the previous tracer, printing one of them dereferences the NULL pointer. This was hit by cat trace during an ftrace stress test: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode RIP: 0010:print_graph_function_event+0xe/0x20 Call Trace: s_show+0x4d/0x110 seq_read_iter+0x2d4/0x490 seq_read+0x130/0x170 vfs_read+0xb5/0x370 ksys_read+0x6d/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0xbc/0x450 The snapshot buffer is not reset at all, so this can be reproduced without a race: echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot echo hwlat > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer cat /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot Rather than teaching every user of tr->current_trace_flags about this corner case, make sure it is never NULL: when the newly selected tracer has no flags at all, tracing_set_tracer() falls back to a static empty no_tracer_flags. run_tracer_selftest() can hit the same case, so the same fallback is added there too. The existing users already handle opts == NULL, so these tracers keep behaving as before. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261015130658.221198-1-hao.ge@linux.dev Fixes: e29aa918a928 ("tracing: Have function graph tracer define options per instance") Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
14 daystracing/histograms: Reject non-stacktrace fields for synthetic stacktrace fieldsLee Jones
In check_synth_field(), when a synthetic event field is a stacktrace (field->is_stack) and the histogram field is not a "long[" stacktrace array, validation falls through to the generic size and signedness comparison. Because parse_synth_field() sets a stacktrace field's type to "__data_loc unsigned long[]", its size is sizeof(u64) and synth_field_signed() marks it as signed. Consequently, any 8-byte signed scalar histogram field passes the fallback check, and its scalar value is subsequently dereferenced as a kernel stacktrace pointer in get_field_size() and trace_stack(). Furthermore, checking strstr(hist_field->type, "long[") is insufficient because tracepoint fields defined with __bitmask() or __rel_bitmask() also have type "__data_loc unsigned long[]" or "__rel_loc unsigned long[]", whilst create_hist_field() treats them as 4-byte scalar values without HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE. Propagate HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE to variable references and field variables (whilst excluding variable aliases from per-element stacktrace capture), and reject any mismatch between HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE and field->is_stack in check_synth_field(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 00cf3d672a9d ("tracing: Allow synthetic events to pass around stacktraces") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261013112449.1006088-1-lee@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
14 daysring-buffer: Use subbuf_order in available memory estimationVincent Donnefort
To avoid failing in the middle of an allocation of a ring-buffer, __rb_allocate_pages() looks at the available memory estimation with si_mem_available(). Use the subbuffer order with this estimation to fail early if necessary for ring-buffers with an order > 0. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261013102047.1488347-3-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: f9b94daa542a ("ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page") Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-15tracing: probes: error if BTF is required but unavailableMartin Kaiser
traceprobe_expand_meta_args expands probe arguments based on BTF info. Return an error if we have arguments that need expanding but BTF is not supported. The params variable is now unused, it can be removed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261014083838.31020-1-martin@kaiser.cx/ Fixes: d157d7694460 ("tracing/probes: Support BTF field access from $retval") Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2026-10-14ring-buffer: Skip si_mem_available() for persistent and remote buffersVincent Donnefort
Persistent and remote buffer memory is pre-allocated by the time __rb_allocate_pages() is called. Skip si_mem_available() to avoid wrongly failing the allocation under memory pressure. For the same reason, unset user_thread. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261013102047.1488347-2-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: be68d63a139b ("ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_alloc_range()") Fixes: 2e67fabd8b77 ("ring-buffer: Introduce ring-buffer remotes") Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14tracing: Do not initialize tracefs work if tracing is disabledAmit Machhiwal
If trace buffer allocation fails during early boot (e.g. in early_trace_init() -> allocate_trace_buffers()), tracing_disabled is left set to 1 and the global trace array events list remains uninitialized. Later during boot, tracer_init_tracefs() (invoked via fs_initcall) queues tracerfs_init_work asynchronously without checking if tracing was disabled. When tracer_init_tracefs_work_func() runs, it calls event_trace_init() and init_tracer_tracefs(&global_trace, NULL) unconditionally. This leads to __find_event_file() dereferencing an uninitialized tr->events list, causing an early boot NULL pointer dereference Oops: BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000010 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000485be0 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 7 [#1] ... NIP [c000000000485be0] __find_event_file+0x70/0x3c0 LR [c000000000448874] init_tracer_tracefs+0x274/0xc80 Call Trace: init_tracer_tracefs+0x274/0xc80 tracer_init_tracefs_work_func+0x50/0x320 process_one_work+0x1e8/0x5c0 worker_thread+0x1dc/0x3d0 kthread+0x194/0x1b0 start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18 Check tracing_disabled at the beginning of tracer_init_tracefs_work_func() and return immediately if tracing is disabled or failed to initialize, preventing the crash. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6621a7004684 ("tracing: make tracer_init_tracefs initcall asynchronous") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261009163557.88467-2-amachhiw@linux.ibm.com Reported-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/arYskzbiaNzBR9MD@kunlun.suse.cz/ Signed-off-by: Amit Machhiwal <amachhiw@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14tracing: Fix hist trigger timestamps for buffered eventsTengda Wu
Syzkaller triggered a WARN_ON_ONCE(!nest) warning: WARNING: kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:821 at ring_buffer_event_time_stamp Call trace: ring_buffer_event_time_stamp hist_field_timestamp hist_fn_call event_hist_trigger event_triggers_call __event_trigger_test_discard trace_event_buffer_commit do_trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch The warning is probabilistically reproducible and is related to syzkaller executing the following commands: echo 'prev_pid == 999999' > events/sched/sched_switch/filter echo 'hist:keys=common_timestamp' > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger The specific triggering process is as follows: CPU 0 CPU 1 (context switching) (echo 'hist:keys=common_timestamp' > \ events/sched/sched_switch/trigger) do_trace_event_raw_event_##call trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve if (!tr->no_filter_buffering_ref && trace_file->flags & EVENT_FILE_FL_FILTERED) return entry; // return directly event_hist_trigger_parse hist_register_trigger tracing_set_filter_buffering(file->tr, true); tr->no_filter_buffering_ref++; __trace_buffer_lock_reserve rb_start_commit local_inc(&cpu_buffer->committing); // skipped and not executed trace_event_buffer_commit __event_trigger_test_discard event_triggers_call event_hist_trigger hist_fn_call hist_field_timestamp ring_buffer_event_time_stamp nest = local_read(&cpu_buffer->committing); WARN_ON_ONCE(!nest) // trigger warning The root cause is that when an event file has a filter attached and the hist trigger has not yet been attached, trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() writes the event into the per-CPU trace_buffered_event temp buffer instead of reserving it in the ring buffer, so cpu_buffer->committing is not incremented. When the event is later processed at commit time by a hist trigger, hist_field_timestamp() -> ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() sees a zero committing count, triggering WARN_ON_ONCE(!nest). tracing_event_time_stamp() was added by commit d8279bfc5e959 ("tracing: Add tracing_event_time_stamp() API") for exactly this case: if the event is the per-CPU trace_buffered_event, it returns the current ring buffer timestamp. But it never gained a caller. Use it in hist_field_timestamp(), so that a hist trigger that races onto a buffered event records the current time, which is only marginally later than when the event was recorded, instead of warning and recording a bogus timestamp. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260929104015.1689921-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com Fixes: b94bc80df648 ("tracing: Use a no_filter_buffering_ref to stop using the filter buffer") Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14tracing: Fix ignored return value of resize_buffer_duplicate_size()Dmitry Kandybka
When tr->allocated_snapshot is true, resize_buffer_duplicate_size() is called to update the snapshot buffer size. However, its return value was not checked. In case of a failed resize this could lead next snapshot being incomplete. Add resize_buffer_duplicate_size() result check and return error if resize fails. Compile tested only. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260928152634.4354-1-d.kandybka@gmail.com Fixes: 180e4e390978 ("tracing: Add snapshot refcount") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kandybka <d.kandybka@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14ring-buffer: Fix false warning in ring_buffer_map_get_reader()Krystian Kaniewski
The mmap reader can warn when it catches up with a writer that is still committing events. rb_get_reader_page() returns NULL in this case, but ring_buffer_map_get_reader() treats that result as an error. The initial rb_per_cpu_empty() check filters out an empty buffer, but it does not guarantee that the next reader page has committed data. Writers do not take reader_lock and can advance commit_page before publishing the committed length on the new page. rb_get_reader_page() can swap to that page, catch up with the writer and return NULL. Handle NULL through the existing no-data exit without warning. Remove the caller's reader_page == commit_page check as well, since the reader-page helper already handles that case. The existing metadata update and return path remain in place. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260924084946.20104-1-krystianmkaniewski@gmail.com Fixes: 117c39200d9d ("ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions") Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.8-flash syzbot Reported-by: syzbot+de3d7f9bcc9212f3fae1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=de3d7f9bcc9212f3fae1 Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/ai_job?id=488adc18-a10e-42d2-a205-25327c38837f Signed-off-by: Krystian Kaniewski <krystianmkaniewski@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14tracing: Fix simple_ring_buffer undef check on sparc64Vincent Donnefort
simple_ring_buffer relies on headers that end up including <asm/thread_info.h>. On sparc64, this emits the undefined symbol current_thread_info_reg. Allow this symbol. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260923074213.3077182-4-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: 1211907ac0b5 ("tracing: Generate undef symbols allowlist for simple_ring_buffer") Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5574c9e6-9ed2-4ee6-a2b2-fb6ee81e83a1@roeck-us.net/ Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14tracing: Fix simple_ring_buffer undef check on pariscVincent Donnefort
simple_ring_buffer uses local_set() and cmpxchg() on unsigned long. Add them to undefsyms_base.c to extend the allowlist for the parisc architecture. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260923074213.3077182-3-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: 1211907ac0b5 ("tracing: Generate undef symbols allowlist for simple_ring_buffer") Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5574c9e6-9ed2-4ee6-a2b2-fb6ee81e83a1@roeck-us.net/ Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14tracing: Fix empty symbol names in simple_ring_buffer undef checkVincent Donnefort
Sparc64 emits empty symmbol names. Skips them when establishing the allowlist and when extracing undefined symbols. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260923074213.3077182-2-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: 1211907ac0b5 ("tracing: Generate undef symbols allowlist for simple_ring_buffer") Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5574c9e6-9ed2-4ee6-a2b2-fb6ee81e83a1@roeck-us.net/ Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14ring-buffer: Fix the sub-buffer array base in rb_meta_subbuf_idx()Donggeun Yoo
On a persistent ring buffer, rb_meta_subbuf_idx() can return an index one sub-buffer too high. rb_setup_ids_meta_page() then fills subbuf_ids[] shifted by one and leaves subbuf_ids[0] NULL, which __rb_map_vma() dereferences when userspace maps trace_pipe_raw. rb_update_meta_reader() writes two such indices into meta->buffers[], which rb_cpu_meta_valid() would reject on the next boot, discarding the previous boot's trace. A CPU's sub-buffer array starts after its meta header and the nr_subbufs integers that follow, aligned up to a sub-buffer. rb_meta_subbuf_idx() inverts that calculation but skips only the integers, not the header, so its base is one sub-buffer low whenever the omitted header size crosses the alignment boundary. Invert the calculation with rb_subbufs_from_meta() rather than repeating it. rb_range_buffer() maps an index back to an address through the same helper, so the two directions can no longer disagree. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260918071507.1019251-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Fixes: b14d032973d4 ("ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_meta data") Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14tracing: Fix the shift out of bounds in the log2 histogram modifierDonggeun Yoo
The .log2 key modifier files a value under its base-2 order: # echo 'hist:keys=bytes_req.log2' > events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger hist_field_log2() computes that as ilog2(roundup_pow_of_two(val)). The out-of-line form of roundup_pow_of_two() is return 1UL << fls_long(n - 1); which shifts by 64 on a 64-bit kernel both when n is 0, where n - 1 wraps to ULONG_MAX, and when n is above 2^63. Both are ordinary keys, because the field fetch hands every value over as a u64: a syscall argument of 0 reaches the first, and one above 2^63 reaches the second. Keying sys_enter_lseek on offset.log2 and passing 0, 1, 2, 3, 1000, 2^63+1 and U64_MAX gives { offset: ~ 2^1 } hitcount: 1 { offset: ~ 2^10 } hitcount: 1 { offset: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 1 { offset: ~ 2^0 } hitcount: 4 Keys above 2^63 land in the lowest bucket. With CONFIG_UBSAN_SHIFT=y the shift is also reported: UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in include/linux/log2.h:57:13 shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int' __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0xdd/0x1cb hist_fn_call.cold+0x8b/0xd9 event_hist_trigger+0x1cc/0x790 ftrace_syscall_enter+0x197/0x360 do_syscall_64+0x402/0x4b0 Use order_base_2(), which is ilog2(n - 1) + 1 for n > 1 and 0 below that. It returns what the old expression returned on every input the old one was defined for. Where it was not, 0 stays in bucket 0, which is where x86_64 had been putting it, and the keys above 2^63 move into bucket 64. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260916002735.808520-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Fixes: 4b94f5b7b4a5 ("tracing: Add hist trigger 'log2' modifier") Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14ring-buffer: Do not show buffer_meta for CPUs without a bufferDavid Carlier
The per_cpu/cpuN/buffer_meta files are created for every possible CPU, but buffer->buffers[cpu] is only allocated once that CPU comes online. Reading the file of a CPU that never came online dereferences a NULL cpu_buffer in rbm_start(). Fail the open with -ENODEV when the CPU has no buffer, as the other per CPU ring buffer interfaces do. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260914133506.4865-3-devnexen@gmail.com Fixes: 950032ffcee7 ("ring-buffer: Add output of ring buffer meta page") Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260913134906.6E8A01F000FF@smtp.kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14tracing: Take trace_types_lock when dropping the buffer_meta referenceDavid Carlier
tracing_buffer_meta_open() drops the trace_array reference with __trace_array_put() when ring_buffer_meta_seq_init() fails, without holding trace_types_lock. Use trace_array_put() like every other open error path. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260914133506.4865-2-devnexen@gmail.com Fixes: 950032ffcee7 ("ring-buffer: Add output of ring buffer meta page") Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-10-14tracing: Fix NULL dereference when copying keys for a field variableDonggeun Yoo
In event_hist_trigger_parse() where it needs to create actions like "onmatch", it calls: event_hist_trigger_parse() { create_actions() { action_create() { trace_action_create() { trace_action_create_field_var() { create_field_var_hist() Where create_field_var_hist() does a loop on the hist_data representing the keys. The issue is, if the keys uses one of the pseudo field types (like common_cpu), the hist_data field element will have NULL for its field member causing a NULL pointer dereference when accessing the key_field->field->name. # echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs' > \ events/sched/sched_waking/trigger # echo 'my_synth u64 lat; int prio' > synthetic_events # echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:\ onmatch(sched.sched_waking).my_synth($wakeup_lat,prio)' > \ events/sched/sched_switch/trigger KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017] RIP: 0010:create_field_var_hist+0x771/0x1380 Call Trace: trace_action_create_field_var+0x360/0x600 trace_action_create+0x393/0xe80 event_hist_trigger_parse+0x3e47/0x69e0 trigger_process_regex+0x1a6/0x250 event_trigger_write+0xce/0x160 Instead of accessing it directly, use the proper handler expr_field_str() to get the name. The three previous patches are prerequisites: without them a .buckets key and a common_stacktrace key each render into a command that cannot be parsed back. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260914053443.981201-5-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Fixes: 02205a6752f2 ("tracing: Add support for 'field variables'") Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-30fprobe: Use guard(rcu_sched_notrace) and check rcu_is_watching()Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
unregister_fprobe() and unregister_fprobe_async() (used by BPF kprobe-multi) rely on standard RCU grace periods (synchronize_rcu() and call_rcu()) to wait until in-flight fprobe handlers complete before freeing the fprobe. However, if an fprobe handler executes while RCU is not watching (such as in the idle loop or nohz_full extended quiescent states), standard RCU does not track preemption-disabled sections. Consequently, synchronize_rcu() does not wait for those executions, which can lead to a use-after-free if the fprobe is freed immediately after unregistration. Ensure handlers exit early when !rcu_is_watching(). Furthermore, fprobe_fgraph_entry() and fprobe_ftrace_entry() previously used guard(rcu)() and rcu_read_lock(), which invoke lockdep on every hit under CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING. This adds overhead and can cause lockdep recursion if probed functions interact with lockdep. Since rhltable_lookup() and rhl_for_each_entry_rcu() use rcu_dereference_all_check() (which checks rcu_read_lock_any_held()), holding preemption disabled via rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace() is fully valid and sufficient so long as rcu_is_watching() is true. Define and use guard(rcu_sched_notrace)() across fprobe_ftrace_entry(), fprobe_fgraph_entry(), and fprobe_return(). This eliminates fast-path rcu_read_lock() and lockdep overhead while guaranteeing safe grace period synchronization. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/179064115227.394389.16910234241400391996.stgit@devnote2/ Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/bug/linux-e46bcd68-4a56-4f19-a255-e3772980e5e3 Fixes: 657b594b2084 ("fprobe: Fix unregister_fprobe() to wait for RCU grace period") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2026-09-26Merge tag 'probes-fixes-v7.3-rc4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull probe fixes from Masami Hiramatsu: - kprobes: Fix permanent hang when flushing the kprobe optimizer Fix a deadlock when disabling kprobe optimization via sysctl or debugfs where flushers hung waiting for optimizer_completion. Replaced the completion with an optimizer_passes counter and wait_var_event_mutex() under kprobe_mutex so concurrent flushers can wait and wake up safely. - fprobe: Terminate the fgraph_data list when the reservation is not filled Fix an issue where unused shadow stack data left uninitialized by fprobe_fgraph_entry() was misparsed as stale fprobe headers on return. Explicitly write a zero word to terminate the list and update read_fprobe_header() to handle the zeroed slot properly. - ftracetest: Fix unique symbol check in kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc Fix false test failures in kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc on architectures like s390 where a symbol exists once in core kernel but also in modules. Anchor the /proc/kallsyms search regex to the end of the line so that module symbols are not incorrectly counted. * tag 'probes-fixes-v7.3-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: kprobes: Fix permanent hang when flushing the kprobe optimizer fprobe: Terminate the fgraph_data list when the reservation is not filled selftests/ftrace: Fix unique symbol check in kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc
2026-09-18fprobe: Terminate the fgraph_data list when the reservation is not filledDavid Carlier
fprobe_fgraph_entry() reserves shadow stack space for every fprobe with an exit handler, but only fills it for those whose entry handler returns 0. fgraph_reserve_data() does not clear the area, so fprobe_return() parses the unused tail as headers left over from an earlier call, and an exit handler can run twice or despite its entry handler asking to skip it. Write a zero word after the last entry to terminate the walk. A zeroed slot does not decode to a NULL fprobe on the arches that encode the header into one unsigned long, since arch_decode_fprobe_header_fp() ORs in FPROBE_HEADER_MSB_PATTERN, so make read_fprobe_header() return NULL for a zeroed slot. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260917212407.384468-1-devnexen@gmail.com/ Fixes: e0a384434ae1 ("tracing: fprobe: do not zero out unused fgraph_data") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2026-09-13ring-buffer: Check resize_disabled before publishing the new subbuf orderDavid Carlier
ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() stores the new order and only then walks the CPUs, returning -EBUSY if any of them has resizing disabled. A user mapped buffer has resizing disabled, and __rb_map_vma() reads buffer->subbuf_order without buffer->mutex, so an mmap of an already mapped CPU racing the failing order change sizes the mapping with the new order and inserts pages past the sub-buffer into the VMA. Check the CPUs before storing the new order. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 117c39200d9d ("ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260912103938.1127021-1-devnexen@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-13tracing/remotes: Catch nr_page_va overflow in ring_buffer_desc sizingVincent Donnefort
The number of pages per remote ring buffer is capped by ring_buffer_desc::nr_page_va (32 bits). A buffer_size large enough to overflow that field would silently allocate a descriptor smaller than what was asked for. Return SIZE_MAX from trace_buffer_desc_size() on nr_page_va overflow. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260911193937.602202-3-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: 2e67fabd8b77 ("ring-buffer: Introduce ring-buffer remotes") Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-13tracing/remotes: Account for ring buffer page header in size calculationVincent Donnefort
trace_buffer_desc_size() and trace_remote_alloc_buffer() undercount the required pages because every ring buffer page contains a header (BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE). Account for that header to ensure allocated remote ring buffers aren't smaller than requested by the user. The newly introduced helper __calc_nr_pages_ring_buffer_desc() can return a value that overflows the descriptor nr_pages field (32 bits). Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260911193937.602202-2-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: 2e67fabd8b77 ("ring-buffer: Introduce ring-buffer remotes") Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-12tracing: Don't dereference trace_event_file in deferred trigger freeAli Ahmet Memiş
The enable_event trigger defers trace_event_put_ref() to the trigger free kthread, but the trace_event_file can already be freed when the instance is removed. Keep the trace_event_call directly in enable_trigger_data so the deferred free does not access the freed trace_event_file. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: e091351b3881 ("tracing: Delay module ref count for "enable_event" trigger") Reported-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260828134340.2501683A24-agordeev@linux.ibm.com/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260911155650.354844-1-aliamemis@disroot.org Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memiş <aliamemis@disroot.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-12ftrace: Use rcu_assign_pointer() for tmp_ops filter hashLeon Hwang
tmp_ops.func_hash->filter_hash is annotated __rcu, but update_ftrace_direct_mod() assigns hash to it directly. Sparse reports an address-space mismatch. Use rcu_assign_pointer() for the assignment. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260911142512.19344-1-leon.hwang@linux.dev Fixes: 50b35c9e50a8 ("ftrace: Use hash argument for tmp_ops in update_ftrace_direct_mod") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202609110704.Q3M5vCDV-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11ring-buffer: Acquire the lock with irqsave in rb_wake_up_waiters()Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
rb_wake_up_waiters() is a irq_work callback which is initialized with init_irq_work(). As such it will be invoked in thread context on PREEMPT_RT. Invoking the callback in IRQ context on PREEMPT_RT is not an option due its usage of wake_up_all(). Since this callback may run in thread context, it needs to acquire ring_buffer_per_cpu::reader_lock with disabling interrupts and may not assume that they are disabled. Use raw_spinlock_irqsave() to acquire ring_buffer_per_cpu::reader_lock. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260911102152.YEtwkBj9@linutronix.de Fixes: 68282dd930ea3 ("ring-buffer: Fix resetting of shortest_full") Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Take trace_array reference when opening a tracer options fileSteven Rostedt
When a tracer option file is opened, it is passed a descriptor that points to an element on the trace_array's topts array. This element has information to find the trace array and other information. It uses this element to take a reference of the trace_array so that the trace_array does not get removed while this file is opened. Unfortunately, there's a race condition where the element itself could be freed by the removal of the instance the trace_array represents causing a use-after-free as this element that is used to find the trace_array to increment its reference counter is also freed when the instance is removed. To solve this, add a trace_array_tracer_options_get() helper function that will take the address of the element that is passed to the open function by the inode->i_private pointer and search all the trace_arrays under a lock to find the one that the element's address is in the range of the trace_arrays topts array elements. When a match happens, that trace_array's reference would be increased. Note, there's a race where if an admin was deleting and creating trace instances at the same time and the memory of the old trace_array's array matched the memory of the new trace_array that it could in theory open the option from the wrong trace array. But we do not care because it would be stupid to perform that kind of action. As long as the only thing that can happen is that the option from the wrong trace array is used and doesn't crash the kernel it will only make the user confused. But if they are doing something stupid like this, they are already confused, so no harm done. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260910221209.62dad8d3@robin Fixes: 7e2cfbd2d3c86 ("tracing: Have option files inc the trace array ref count") Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20260902121918.5a9e9d1b@gandalf.local.home/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page_size() kernel-docKarl Mehltretter
ring_buffer_read_page_size() takes a parameter named rpage, but its kernel-doc describes page. As a result, kernel-doc reports rpage as undescribed and page as an excess parameter description. Rename the documentation entry to match the function. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260909062917.89482-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com Fixes: dae8dda341d2 ("tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers") Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Restore :mod: trailer after parsing in ftrace_set_clr_event()Thomas Weißschuh
While ftrace_set_clr_event() modifies its input buffer during parsing, before returning to the caller the buffer is supposed to be restored to its original state. This works correctly for the colon between the subsystem and event but not the colon at the beginning of :mod:. Restore the colon, so the :mod: trailer is not stripped after ftrace_set_clr_event(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 4c86bc531e60 ("tracing: Add :mod: command to enabled module events") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260908-tracing-cli-event-filter-v2-1-05396a3fb663@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Fix memory corruption from a "STACKTRACE" histogram keyDonggeun Yoo
"cpu", "CPU", "stacktrace" and "STACKTRACE" are generic fields, defined with an offset and a size of zero so that the filter code can match them by name. parse_field() maps them onto their common_* equivalents for backward compatibility, but unlike the common_* names it hands the placeholder back to the caller instead of NULL. create_hist_field() takes a non-NULL field as a promise that the record carries a stacktrace and picks HIST_FIELD_FN_STACK, so the __data_loc word is read from offset 0, that is from common_type, and its low 16 bits are followed as an offset into the record. What is found there becomes the length of an unbounded memcpy. Pick an event whose id is small enough that the offset stays inside its own record and the length is a kernel text address: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing # echo 'hist:keys=STACKTRACE' > events/ftrace/print/trigger # echo hello > trace_marker Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address RIP: 0010:rb_next+0x23/0x60 </IRQ> RIP: 0010:memcpy+0xc/0x30 event_hist_trigger+0x2e7/0x12c0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Leave the field NULL, which is what the comment above the branch says the code does and what common_stacktrace already does. FILTER_CPU and FILTER_COMM are left alone, their create_hist_field() branches never look at the field. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 4b512860bdbd ("tracing: Rename stacktrace field to common_stacktrace") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907155045.692664-3-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Fix memory corruption from the histogram stacktrace modifierDonggeun Yoo
parse_field() sets HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE from the ".stacktrace" modifier before it looks the field name up, and nothing afterwards checks that the name resolved to a field which holds a stacktrace. create_hist_field() picks HIST_FIELD_FN_STACK on the strength of the field pointer alone, which reads a __data_loc word from the record and follows its low 16 bits as an offset into the same record. event_hist_trigger() takes the first word there as an entry count and copies that many longs into a 31 entry array: n_entries = *stack; memcpy(entries, ++stack, n_entries * sizeof(unsigned long)); Neither end of that copy is bounded, and the count is whatever the event holds at the offset, so any field will do: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork # echo 'hist:keys=parent_pid.stacktrace' > trigger # (true) BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 RIP: 0010:rb_insert_color+0x18/0x130 timerqueue_linked_add+0x7e/0xd0 enqueue_hrtimer+0x39/0xb0 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x10f/0x1f0 </IRQ> RIP: 0010:memcpy+0xc/0x30 event_hist_trigger+0x165/0x690 The timer interrupt landed on the rbtree the copy had already run over. No debug options are needed for this; KASAN reports the same write as an out-of-bounds read of 13835058055416381440 bytes. Documentation/trace/histogram.rst already states the rule, "must be a long[] type", so enforce it once the name has been resolved. Names which resolve to no field at all, "hitcount.stacktrace" and the common_* pseudo-fields, are refused for the same reason: they hold no stacktrace to read. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: cc5fc8bfc961 ("tracing/histogram: Add stacktrace type") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907155045.692664-2-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Undo the registration when enabling the histogram trigger failsDonggeun Yoo
Commit 6f86bdeab633 ("tracing: Fix bad hist from corrupting named_triggers list") described how a trigger that is registered but not on file->triggers ends up freed while still on the global named_triggers list, and moved the registration down so that hist_trigger_enable() follows it immediately. One path still gets there. hist_trigger_enable() adds the trigger and takes it straight back out when the event cannot be enabled: list_add_tail_rcu(&data->list, &file->triggers); update_cond_flag(file); if (trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(file, 1) < 0) { list_del_rcu(&data->list); update_cond_flag(file); ret--; } so the list walk in hist_unregister_trigger() matches nothing, test stays NULL, and the ->free() that would call del_named_trigger() is skipped. out_unreg falls through to out_free, which frees the trigger anyway: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880091d3160 by task init/1 find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0 hist_register_trigger+0xc1/0xa00 event_hist_trigger_parse+0x3146/0x6af0 event_trigger_write+0xce/0x160 Freed by task 69: kfree+0x154/0x420 trigger_kthread_fn+0xfd/0x160 Leave the trigger where hist_unregister_trigger() can find it and let that undo the registration, which is the only code that knows all of what cmd_ops->init() took: the named list entry, the hist_pad reference, the reference on the trigger a named histogram is shared with, and the copied cmd_ops. It also pairs the failed trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(), whose sm_ref and buffered event reference are otherwise left behind. Since ->free() releases trigger_data and, for a trigger that does not share its histogram, hist_data with it, out_unreg can no longer fall through to out_free. For a trigger that does share, hist_register_trigger() has already destroyed the caller's hist_data, so the fall-through was reading freed memory there as well. Move the enable_timestamps check in hist_unregister_trigger() above the ->free() call for the same reason: hist_data does not outlive it once the trigger being removed is the one that owns it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 067fe038e70f ("tracing: Add variable reference handling to hist triggers") Reported-by: Sashiko AI <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20260907092944.3950E1F00A3D@smtp.kernel.org/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907124420.607097-3-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Take the reference before publishing the named histogram triggerDonggeun Yoo
event_hist_trigger_named_init() puts the trigger on the global named_triggers list and only then takes the reference on the trigger it shares its histogram with: data->ref++; save_named_trigger(data->named_data->name, data); ret = event_hist_trigger_init(data->named_data); if (ret < 0) { kfree(data->cmd_ops); data->cmd_ops = &trigger_hist_cmd; } return ret; event_hist_trigger_init() fails when alloc_hist_pad() cannot allocate, and nothing takes the trigger back off the list on the way out. event_hist_trigger_parse() frees it, and the next lookup by name reads the freed object: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888009346860 by task init/1 find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0 hist_register_trigger+0xc1/0xa00 event_hist_trigger_parse+0x3146/0x6af0 event_trigger_write+0xce/0x160 Freed by task 67: kfree+0x154/0x420 trigger_kthread_fn+0xfd/0x160 Do the reference first and publish once it has succeeded, so that nothing which can fail runs after the trigger becomes findable. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 7ab0fc61ce73 ("tracing: Move histogram trigger variables from stack to per CPU structure") Reported-by: Sashiko AI <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20260907092944.3950E1F00A3D@smtp.kernel.org/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907124420.607097-2-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Set the trace clock before registering the histogram triggerDonggeun Yoo
hist_register_trigger() puts the trigger on the global named_triggers list in cmd_ops->init(), and only then sets the trace clock: if (data->cmd_ops->init) { ret = data->cmd_ops->init(data); if (ret < 0) goto out; } if (hist_data->enable_timestamps) { ret = tracing_set_clock(file->tr, hist_data->attrs->clock); if (ret) { hist_err(tr, HIST_ERR_SET_CLOCK_FAIL, errpos(clock)); goto out; } The clock string is not checked anywhere before that call, so a named trigger using common_timestamp with an unknown clock fails after it has already become findable. event_hist_trigger_parse() then frees it without taking it off the list, and the next lookup by name reads the freed object: ~# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch ~# echo 'hist:name=foo:keys=common_pid:ts=common_timestamp:clock=bogus' > trigger bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument ~# echo 'hist:name=foo:keys=common_pid' > trigger BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800915d760 by task init/1 find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0 hist_register_trigger+0xc1/0x900 event_hist_trigger_parse+0x3146/0x6af0 event_trigger_write+0xce/0x160 Freed by task 63: kfree+0x154/0x420 trigger_kthread_fn+0xfd/0x160 Set the clock before the trigger is registered, so that nothing which can fail runs after it is published, the way commit 6f86bdeab633 ("tracing: Fix bad hist from corrupting named_triggers list") moved the registration below the rest of the setup. tracing_set_filter_buffering() is reference counted, so the init failure path has to drop the reference that the clock block now takes first. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: a4072fe85ba3 ("tracing: Add a clock attribute for hist triggers") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907091415.554535-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Fix typo "availabe" in commentHemanth Selam
Correct "availabe" to "available", reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl using the misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt. Only touches comments, no code changes. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907062608.13924-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5 Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Let histogram values keep the percent and graph modifiersDonggeun Yoo
The .percent and .graph modifiers exist only for histogram values, but a value carrying either of them has been rejected since v6.3. The example in Documentation/trace/histogram.rst, # echo 'hist:keys=prev_comm:vals=hitcount.percent:nohitcount' > \ events/sched/sched_switch/trigger returns -EINVAL. parse_field() sets the two flags only when the field is neither a key nor a variable, that is, only on a value: } else if (strncmp(modifier, "percent", 7) == 0) { if (*flags & (HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR | HIST_FIELD_FL_KEY)) goto error; *flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_PERCENT; __create_val_field() then rejects a value for carrying them, so no field can reach hist_trigger_print_val(), where both are implemented. commit e0213434fe3e ("tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers") added the check after a value with .buckets oopsed in hist_field_name(). That happens because .buckets and .log2 make create_hist_field() build a nested field in operands[0] which hist_field_name() then walks into. The percent and graph flags do not create an operand and are not read by hist_field_name(); they are only used when printing a value. Stop rejecting the two flags on a value. The check for variables is left alone, where they are unreachable anyway because parse_field() rejects a variable carrying them first. With the two flags removed, the trigger above installs and prints as documented: { prev_comm: rcu_preempt } hitcount (%): 0.00 { prev_comm: init } hitcount (%): 99.98 Totals: Hits: 237896 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: e0213434fe3e ("tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907052113.430818-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Keep the entry count when the histogram stats allocation failsDonggeun Yoo
print_entries() uses n_entries both as the number of sort entries and as its own return value, so the -ENOMEM it stores when the stats allocation fails overwrites the count that the cleanup still needs: n_entries = tracing_map_sort_entries(map, ...); if (n_entries < 0) return n_entries; ... if (!stats) { n_entries = -ENOMEM; goto out; } ... out: tracing_map_destroy_sort_entries(sort_entries, n_entries); tracing_map_destroy_sort_entries() takes an unsigned int and loops up to it, so -ENOMEM arrives as 4294967284. It walks an array of at most map->max_elts pointers and calls destroy_sort_entry(), which dereferences and frees, on whatever lies past the end. Reading the hist file of a trigger with a .percent value, with that allocation forced to fail: BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in tracing_map_destroy_sort_entries+0xa0/0xb0 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc90000045000 by task init/1 tracing_map_destroy_sort_entries+0xa0/0xb0 hist_show+0x6f7/0x1df0 seq_read_iter+0x2b8/0x1190 vfs_read+0x176/0xa40 The buggy address belongs to a 4-page vmalloc region starting at ffffc90000041000 allocated at tracing_map_sort_entries+0x5c/0xd50 A few pages further the fault is fatal. The registers at the oops confirm the bound: the loop's end pointer less the array start, over the pointer size, is 4294967284. Return the error in a separate variable and leave n_entries holding the count, the way tracing_map_sort_entries() does on its own error path. The stats block is only entered for a value carrying .percent or .graph, which __create_val_field() has rejected since v6.3, so this cannot be reached in mainline as it stands. It becomes reachable again with "tracing: hist: let values keep the percent and graph modifiers", so it should be applied first. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: abaa5258ce5e ("tracing: Add .percent suffix option to histogram values") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907060323.480728-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260907053113.1CED91F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Free histogram the field rejected for a bad modifierDonggeun Yoo
Writing a hist trigger whose value or variable carries a modifier that is not allowed there leaks the fields that were built for it. __create_val_field() takes the field from parse_expr() and stores it in hist_data->fields[] only after the modifier checks have run: hist_field = parse_expr(hist_data, file, field_str, flags, var_name, &n_subexprs); ... if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR) { if (hist_field->flags & (...)) goto err; } else { if (hist_field->flags & (...)) goto err; } hist_data->fields[val_idx] = hist_field; Both checks jump past that store, and the err label returns without freeing anything. The error unwinds to create_hist_data(), which calls destroy_hist_data() -> destroy_hist_fields(), and that reaches a field only by walking fields[]. A field that never got there is unreachable. commit e0213434fe3e ("tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers") set ret to -EINVAL and fell through to the store, which left the field owned by fields[] and freed along with the rest of hist_data. Splitting the check into a value case and a variable case replaced that fall-through with a goto that skips it. With CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK, 200 writes of # echo 'hist:keys=prev_pid:vals=next_pid.log2' > \ events/sched/sched_switch/trigger each correctly rejected with -EINVAL, leave 332 unreferenced objects (63744 bytes) reported at create_hist_field(); 200 install and remove cycles of a valid trigger leave none. A '.log2' field is two allocations, since create_hist_field() puts the plain field in operands[0] of the log2 field, and both are reported. Use destroy_hist_field() rather than __destroy_hist_field() so that operands[0] is freed as well. It returns early for HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF, which is what an operand owned by hist_data->var_refs[] needs; the rejected field itself is never a var ref, because a var ref never carries a modifier flag. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: e30fbc618e97 ("tracing/histograms: Allow variables to have some modifiers") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907034948.240387-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Free histogram the var ref when its initialization failsDonggeun Yoo
create_var_ref() allocates a VAR_REF hist_field and then calls init_var_ref() to fill it in. When that fails the field is leaked. commit 656fe2ba85e8 ("tracing: Use hist trigger's var_ref array to destroy var_refs") made destroy_hist_field() return early for HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF, since var refs are freed by walking the trigger's var_refs[] array instead. create_var_ref() adds the field to that array only after init_var_ref() has succeeded, so on this path the field is in neither place and nothing frees it. The call was correct when it was written, before var refs were taken out of destroy_hist_field(). init_var_ref() cannot free it either. The caller owns the field, so init_var_ref() undoes only its own string allocations and leaves the field alone. Freeing it there would leave create_var_ref() passing freed memory to destroy_hist_field(), which reads its flags. Call __destroy_hist_field(), which frees the field without consulting the flag. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260906133352.3815019-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Fixes: 656fe2ba85e8 ("tracing: Use hist trigger's var_ref array to destroy var_refs") Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing: Free histogram var refs regardless of how often they are referencedDonggeun Yoo
Using the same variable three or more times in one hist trigger leaks the variable reference and its strings when the trigger is removed. commit 656fe2ba85e8 ("tracing: Use hist trigger's var_ref array to destroy var_refs") made a trigger's var_refs[] array the only owner of a var ref: destroy_hist_field() returns early for HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF, so the field expressions never destroy one. One entry, freed once, no count needed. commit 8bcebc77e85f ("tracing: Fix histogram code when expression has same var as value") then made repeated references share one object and added a count of them. Only the increment side exists, since those expressions still return early and never drop a reference, so __destroy_hist_field() sees how many references were created rather than how many are left. It frees when the decremented count is 0 or 1, so two references work and three or more leak. Sharing kept one array entry per object, and create_var_ref() searches and appends within a single trigger, so nothing outside it holds the object. Removing a trigger whose variables are still referenced is already refused by check_var_refs() with -EBUSY. Drop the count and free unconditionally. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260906124025.3550596-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Fixes: 8bcebc77e85f ("tracing: Fix histogram code when expression has same var as value") Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11function_graph: Use the saved entry's size when reprinting itDonggeun Yoo
When a graph entry does not fit in the trace_seq, print_graph_entry() saves it in the iterator's fgraph_data and reprints it on the next read. The entry has already been consumed from the ring buffer by then, so the copy is all that is left of it. The copy is sized with iter->ent_size, which no longer describes the saved entry but whatever entry the iterator has moved on to. The argument count is derived from the same field, so a 72 byte entry saved and then reprinted ahead of a 48 byte return entry loses its arguments. Record the size next to the failure flag, so that the two are always set together, and restore it before reprinting. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: ff5c9c576e75 ("ftrace: Add support for function argument to graph tracer") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260906034406.1335316-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11fgraph: Remove unused FGRAPH_MAX_INDEXDonggeun Yoo
FGRAPH_MAX_INDEX has no user, and it expands to FGRAPH_INDEX_SIZE and FGRAPH_RET_INDEX, neither of which is defined anywhere in the tree. It was added in that form by commit 91c46b0aa917 ("function_graph: Implement fgraph_reserve_data() and fgraph_retrieve_data()"), which introduced the current data word layout under new names, so anything referencing it would have failed to build ever since. Remove it. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260905211922.1196366-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-11tracing/user_events: Don't destroy fields when event removal failsHenry Martin
destroy_user_event() destroys the event's fields before attempting to remove the trace event call. If user_event_set_call_visible() fails, e.g. because the event is still enabled and trace_remove_event_call() returns -EBUSY, the event is left registered with an irreversibly destroyed field list. Any subsequent interaction with the event then operates on an empty field list while it is still fully visible in tracefs. Move the field destruction after the call removal, and splice the field list back onto the event when the removal fails so the event remains in a consistent state. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904115223.2976446-1-bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com Fixes: 7f5a08c79df35 ("user_events: Add minimal support for trace_event into ftrace") Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-06Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: - Fix several tracefs files that did not take the trace_array reference A trace instance can be created and destroyed in the tracefs "instances" directory via mkdir and rmdir respectively. The instance is represented by a trace_array descriptor. Most tracefs files pass the trace_array as the private data of the inode to the open/read/write functions. Since there is no locking between the time a task opens a file and the deletion of the instance (and the freeing of the trace_array), each open needs to get a reference to the trace_array and each close must remove it. An instance can't be removed if there's any reference taken on its trace_array. The open function uses trace_array_get() that takes a lock (preventing removal of instances) and iterates the list of all existing trace_arrays and if it finds a match, it takes the reference and releases the lock. If it doesn't find a match, it causes the open to return -ENODEV. There were some added files that did not take the trace_array reference on open that needed to be fixed. Sashiko also correctly pointed out that there were some files that took an address of an field or element of the trace_array which had a pointer back to the trace_array to take its reference on open. But this leaves a slight race between referencing this element to get the trace_array as the element itself could be freed. To solve this, some helper functions were created to look for trace_arrays with this field or element in the search so that the element did not have to be dereferenced before the trace_array's reference was taken. - Add a lock around ftrace_ops initialization When a ftrace_ops is first used by ftrace, some internal initialization is performed on the ops. But if multiple tasks were calling functions that did this initialization, it could race and perform doing the initialization more than once, corrupting the internal data. Add a lock in the initialization code to prevent this from happening. - Fix splice reads on mmapped buffers The logic in the ring buffer splice code for mmapped buffers is supposed to do a copy of the memory as the mapped buffers can't be given to splice. But there was an if statement within the copy code that would return a -1 if a request for a full page was done and it wasn't a partial read. This is because this logic was written before mmapped buffers existed and this case didn't make sense at the time. For mmapped buffers it makes perfect sense and by returning early can drop a lot of pages unnecessarily. - Have the persistent ring buffer validation check nr_subbufs Sashiko reported that the validation code was relying on the saved nr_subbufs to match the calculated nr_pages + 1 and if they were off, that the code could cause corruption. Sashiko is correct, and the saved nr_subbufs should be validated before assuming it is correct. - Do not allow more than one instance with the same name on cmdline If an admin were to add more than one trace instances with the same name they all would be created, but only the first one would be accessible via tracefs. This used to not be allowed but some restructuring of code has since made it possible. - Fix the race between subbuf resize and trace_pipe_raw readers If a task was reading trace_pipe_raw while another task was changing the ring buffer subbuf size, it could crash the reader. The trace_pipe_raw readers do get their own copy of the page from the buffer, but the code needs some restructuring to not have the resize of the subbuffers cause issues. - Cap the size of the mapped (static) ring buffer nr_pages The meta data used for ring buffer mapped buffers is 32 bit in size. A normal ring buffer could (in theory) have more than 4 billion pages. But this is not allowed by mapped buffers, so enforce it. * tag 'trace-v7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Use a macro for static buffer bits tracing: Fix comment in tracing_buffers_splice_read() ring-buffer: Prevent truncation of nr_pages / nr_subbufs ring-buffer: Cap static ring buffer nr_pages tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers tracing: Fix to avoid creating trace instances with duplicate names ring-buffer: Add checking nr_subbufs to persistent ring buffer validation ring-buffer: Allow splice reads on static buffers tracing: Take trace_array reference when opening options file ftrace: Synchronize the initialization of ftrace_ops ftrace: Take trace_array reference before accessing its ftrace_ops tracing: Have show_event_filters/triggers files take trace array ref
2026-09-04treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversionsKees Cook
This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc() family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's "--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control flow indicator I could find. Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc, riscv, and s390 with no new warnings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1] Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
2026-09-04ring-buffer: Use a macro for static buffer bitsSteven Rostedt
Instead of hard coding 30 for the number of bits used for the static buffer ids in two places, create a macro. This way if it changes in the future, it will change in all the locations that use it. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904151641.17eae0aa@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-04tracing: Fix comment in tracing_buffers_splice_read()Steven Rostedt
The comment about returning an error if the read fails on the first iteration is slightly incorrect. It makes it sound like the only reason it could fail on a later iteration is if the subbuf order changed. That is incorrect, it could also fail if the length passed in was not a multiple of the subbuf size. Fix the comment. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260904143527.40e73d36@gandalf.local.home/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904144902.506862a1@gandalf.local.home Fixes: dae8dda341d2 ("tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>