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| author | Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev> | 2026-10-15 21:06:58 +0800 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2026-10-15 18:03:48 -0400 |
| commit | 3cc117514d69067a94d6c7479730dce41e678f50 (patch) | |
| tree | be228edd94656578c470d9ec63695291d4b63c9a /scripts/basic/split-include.c | |
| parent | a244c241593b5b38a08f0df2cb43c26574efbdcb (diff) | |
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tracing: Fix crash in print_graph_function_event()
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>
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