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Linus Torvalds
034dd340b0 Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Fix error output of boot instance creation failure

   Currently if a boot instance creation fails, instead of printing out
   the name of the instance that failed, it prints "(null)". That is
   because it prints "cur_str" that had already been processed by
   strsep(). Print the saved name instead.

   While at it, print the error code of the failure.

 - Fix use-after-free for same named historgrams

   Histograms can be named so that they can be used in multiple events.
   But if the named histogram has a variable attached, the second event
   that uses the named histogram which duplicates it and needs to free
   the original after duplication leaves the old variable in place and
   still visible. If another histogram uses than variable, it will use
   the stale one which will try to reference the freed duplicate
   histogram and crash the kernel.

   Free the duplicate variables along with the duplicated histogram
   data.

 - Check return value of kthread_run() in event self test

   The events self tests uses a kthread for testing but does not check
   if it succeeded in creating a kthread. If the kthread creation were
   to fail, the code will still try to call kthread_stop() on the error
   returned.

 - Fix race between reading trace_pipe and updating subbuffer size

   If a user is reading the trace_pipe file at the same time they update
   the ring buffer sub-buffer size, can cause the trace_pipe read to
   read stale data. Add trace_access_lock() around updating the ring
   buffer sub-buffer size.

 - Fix eventfs_inode on failure path in creation of the events directory

   In the creation of the "events" directory, if after allocating the
   eventfs_inode a failure is detected, it calls cleanup_ei() which
   calls free_ei(). The free_ei() will test if eventfs_inode being freed
   has no children. It is a bug if it does. But on the failure case of
   the creation of the "events" directory, the children lists have not
   yet been initialized and the free will trigger a warning because
   list_empty() on an uninitialized list returns false.

   Move the initialization into init_ei() where it makes more sense and
   makes sure that a created eventfs_inode has its lists initialized
   upon creation.

 - Check return value of kthread_run() in ftrace direct sample code

   The sample code that shows how to use the ftrace direct calls does
   not test the return of kthread_run() to see if it succeeds. Return a
   failure if the kthread_run() doesn't succeed.

 - Clear user events state on fork in case of alloc failure

   On fork, the child gets a pointer to the parent's user events state.
   It makes a copy of it then updates the child's pointer to it. But if
   the allocation fails, the duplication function leaves the child with
   a pointer to its parent's descriptor. When the child cleans up its
   data, it will free the parent's descriptor while the parent is still
   using it.

   In the duplication function, set the child's user_event_mm to NULL
   before testing if the allocation succeeded, and when it exits it will
   not free the parent's descriptor.

 - Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap

   simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page() starts with retry set to 8 and
   post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final
   attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a
   failed replacement leaves it at -1.

   But the check for success expects the retry value to be non-zero and
   exits with an error on zero. This is the opposite result. Fix it.

 - Fail nicely when the remote swap_reader_page() returns an error

   Currently, if the swap_reader_page() of a remote buffer fails, it
   triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() and continues normally. Instead, have it
   exit with an error and a pr_warn() print instead of a full WARNING.

* tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Stop remote reader update when page swap fails
  tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap
  tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication
  samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-multi-modify
  samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-modify
  eventfs: Initialize ei->children and ei->list in init_ei()
  tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change
  tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()
  tracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers
  tracing: Fix logged instance name on creation failure
2026-08-30 09:22:00 -07:00
Deepanshu Kartikey
372f853424 tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change
Writing to buffer_subbuf_size_kb calls ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(),
which frees every sub-buffer of the ring buffer, including the reader
page, and replaces them with newly allocated ones.

Readers of trace_pipe hold pointers into those pages. ring_buffer_peek()
looks up an event under cpu_buffer->reader_lock but returns the event
pointer after dropping the lock, and peek_next_entry() then calls
ring_buffer_event_length() and ring_buffer_event_data() on it. If the
sub-buffer order is changed in that window, the reader dereferences
freed memory:

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ring_buffer_peek+0x3e0/0x430
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff88802a4cf010 by task syz-executor989/6002

  Freed by:
   free_buffer_page kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:398 [inline]
   ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set+0x1325/0x18e0 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:7444
   buffer_subbuf_size_write+0x182/0x280 kernel/trace/trace.c:8221

Take trace_access_lock(RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) around the order change.
This is the lock trace_pipe readers already hold across their entire
peek-and-print loop, so the swap can no longer race with a reader that
is dereferencing a peeked event.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260817140655.5694-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
Fixes: f9b94daa54 ("ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page")
Reported-by: syzbot+685955db58555575fdd2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=685955db58555575fdd2
Tested-by: syzbot+685955db58555575fdd2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net>
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-08-22 17:43:42 -04:00
Vincent Donnefort
a9a01be283 tracing: Fix logged instance name on creation failure
When boot instance creation fails, the kernel incorrectly logs "(null)"
as the instance name because strsep() consumes curr_str entirely during
parsing.

Print the properly parsed name variable instead. And while at it log
the error code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260807085423.4175161-1-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: cb1f98c5e5 ("tracing: Add creation of instances at boot command line")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-08-22 10:41:58 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
6439079365 Merge tag 'probes-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
 "BTF typecasting and variable fetch enhancements:

   - Typecast support across probe events: Extended BTF typecasting
     syntax (e.g., (STRUCT)PARAM->MEMBER) to kprobes, uprobes, and
     fprobes on function entry and return

   - Nested typecasts: Added support for chaining and nesting typecasts
     up to 3 levels, including casting registers and stack variables

   - Field specifier option: Added (STRUCT,FIELD) syntax to emulate
     container_of(), allowing retrieval of parent structures from member
     pointers

   - $current variable support: Introduced $current special variable to
     access the running task_struct via BTF dereferencing

   - Per-CPU variable access: Added this_cpu_read() and this_cpu_ptr()
     fetcharg methods to trace CPU-local data safely

   - Fetcharg bytecode dumper: Added CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS_DUMP_FETCHARG
     to dump the compiled fetcharg bytecode instructions as comments in
     dynamic_events

   - Extended symbol name handling: Removed the MAX_COMMON_HEAD_LEN
     limit and extended MAX_ARGSTR_LEN to 256 bytes, enabling probing of
     long symbols, mangled Rust symbols and complex BTF expressions

   - eprobe variable syntax: Allowed eprobes to reference event fields
     directly without requiring a '$' prefix

   - Cleanup unused parameters, redundant codes, duplicate macros and
     pointer arithmetic

   - Use a ternary operator for simplifying fetch_type_from_btf_type()

  Expanded boot time dynamic probe support:

   - Add boot-time tracing configuration support for event probes
     (eprobes), function probes (fprobes), and tracepoint probes
     (tprobes)

   - Allow comment lines ('#') in dynamic_events file

  Optimization, robustness, and cleanups:

   - Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing graph and ftrace helpers

   - Remove __packed attribute from struct __fprobe_header to avoid
     unaligned memory access penalties on RISC architectures

   - Remove redundant memset() calls in perf event probe handlers

   - Replace legacy __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files

  Selftests & refactoring:

   - Refactor parse_probe_arg() and parse_probe_vars(), and eliminate
     recursion in probe argument parsing to protect kernel stack depth

   - Add selftests for BTF typecasts and module probing without module
     prefixes

   - Force LC_ALL=C in ftracetest to prevent test failures on localized
     systems

   - Refactor btf_type_skip_modifiers() to remove ignored id parameter

   - Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically

   - Fix typo in fprobe docs, and trace_fprobe function name

   - Rename FETCH_OP_DATA to FETCH_OP_IMMSTR

   - Make file offset error message probe-agnostic"

* tag 'probes-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (37 commits)
  fprobe: Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing existing helpers
  tracing/boot: Add support for eprobe, fprobe, and tprobe events
  selftests/ftrace: Force C locale in ftracetest
  tracing/probes: Treating longer symbol name on event comparation
  docs: trace: fprobe: fix 'thos' spelling
  tracing/probes: Fix extra whitespace in trace_probe_kernel.h
  tracing/kprobe: Remove redundant memset in kprobe_perf_func()
  tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant memset in fentry_perf_func()
  tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant snprintf in trace_fprobe_match_command_head()
  tracing/probes: Simplify BTF_KIND_PTR case in fetch_type_from_btf_type()
  tracing/probes: Cleanup pointer arithmetic in store_trace_entry_data()
  tracing/probes: Remove unused parameter from parse_probe_var_retval()
  tracing/probes: Remove redundant bounds check in trace_probe_compare_arg_type()
  tracing/probes: Remove redundant boolean conversion in trace_probe_has_single_file()
  tracing/probes: Remove duplicate MAX_ARRAY_LEN macro definition
  selftests/ftrace: Add test case for a symbol in a module without module name
  tracing/probes: Eliminate recursion in parse_probe_arg()
  tracing/probes: Extend max length of argument string
  tracing/probes: Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically
  tracing/probes: Refactor parse_probe_arg()
  ...
2026-08-20 15:11:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
081e5bf2a9 Merge tag 'trace-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Expose btf_ids to trace events

   In order to allow BPF programs to attach to system call trace events
   (which are actually pseudo trace events built on top of raw_syscall
   events), expose the BTF ID of the events. This will allow BPF
   programs better precision in attaching to events.

 - Use "u64" to assign to hist_field->type

   Instead of using kstrdup("u64", GFP_KERNEL) to assign the
   hist_field->type, just point it to "u64" instead. The
   hist_field->type is freed via kfree_const().

 - Replace kmalloc()/strcpy() with kstrdup() for trace_printk

   Instead of having two calls to copy the module format string, just
   use kstrdup().

 - Use __free() in trace event histograms and triggres where possible

 - Use seq_buf in trace event code instead of strcat()

   Instead of calculating the size of the buffer to use and filling it
   with strcat(), use the seq_buf infrastructure that takes care of
   making sure not to overflow the string size.

 - Reject invalid preemptirq_delay_test CPU affinity

   The preempt_delay_test module can take an invalid CPU affinity mask
   and create confusing output. Simply have the module reject invalid
   affinity masks.

 - Prevent division by zero in ftrace_ops sample module code

   If the ftrace_ops sample module code receives the module parameter
   nr_function_calls set to zero, it can cause a division by zero error.

 - Warn when an event dereferences a parameter in TP_printk()

   On boot up and module load, the trace event TP_printk() is scanned
   for possible bugs. As the TP_printk() code is executed when the user
   reads the "trace" file and processes the data written when the
   trace_event executed, the data it reads can be literally days old.
   The scan currently checks for dereferencing printk formats like
   "%pI6". But it does not check if the parameters themselves have a
   dereference like:

	TP_printk("offset %08x: value %08x",
		(u32)(__entry->addr - __entry->edma->membase), __entry->value)

   __entry represents the pointer to the event on the ring buffer. The
   __entry->edma->membase is dereferencing a pointer on the ring buffer
   to find membase, but the __entry->edma may no longer be a valid
   pointer.

   Warn on this case too.

 - Replace some strcpy() with strscpy()

 - Clean up mmiotrace events to use assign_type() macro

   The assign_type() macro makes sure the event type is indeed the type
   that is being parsed. The mmiotrace trace was written before that
   macro was created so it just simply typecasted the pointer.

   Replace the typecasting with the macro.

 - Have the ENUM processing to numbers only process what is added

   The code that converts ENUMs to their numbers in the trace events
   scanned all events to do the processing. This was true when a module
   was loaded too. That is, instead of processing just the events for
   the module, it processed *all* events. Even the builtin ones that
   were processed at boot up.

   Add a check for the event->module matching mod if it is a module
   before processing it.

* tag 'trace-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (21 commits)
  tracing: Have trace_event_update_all() only handle module that is loading
  tracing: Cleanup event_enable_trigger_parse() by using __free()
  tracing: Report every TP_printk double dereference
  tracing/mmiotrace: Use trace_assign_type() in mmio_print_mark()
  tracing: Make per-template BTF id lists file-local
  tracing: Use seq_buf for string concatenation
  tracing: Use strscpy() instead of strcpy() in trace_sched_switch
  tracing: Warn when an event dereferences a pointer in TP_printk()
  samples/ftrace: Prevent division by zero when nr_function_calls is zero
  tracing: Reject invalid preemptirq_delay_test CPU affinity
  fgraph: Use trace_seq_putc() in print_graph_return()
  tracing/user_events: Replace a seq_printf() call by seq_puts() in user_seq_show()
  tracing/user_events: Use seq_putc() in two functions
  tracing: Bound histogram expression strings with seq_buf
  tracing: Return ERR_PTR() from expr_str()
  tracing: Use __free() for expr_str() buffer
  kernel/trace/trace_printk: Use kstrdup() instead of kmalloc() and strcpy()
  tracing: Point constant hist field type to string literal
  selftests/bpf: Add test for tracepoint btf_ids tracefs file
  tracing: Expose tracepoint BTF ids via tracefs
  ...
2026-08-19 14:06:14 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
ae70b04ab9 tracing: Have trace_event_update_all() only handle module that is loading
The function trace_event_update_all() does a scan of events looking to
replace enums with their values in the strings that get exported to the
event format files. It's run at boot up on all events and again when a
module loads.

The issue is that when a module loads, it still runs on *all* events.
There's no reason to process every event when a module loads as the
previous events have already been processed. Only execute on the events
that are loaded with the module.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813204226.29563591@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 3673b8e4ce ("tracing: Allow for modules to convert their enums to values")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-08-14 09:59:27 -04:00
Leon Hwang
48f2fd0d93 ftrace: Drop extra comma in trace_buffered_event_enable
Drop the extra comma in "scoped_guard()" to cleanup the code.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260730150411.88667-5-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-08-08 11:21:32 -04:00
Usama Arif
8f76afb9b1 tracing: Fix context switch counter truncation
trace_user_fault_read() samples nr_context_switches_cpu() before enabling
preemption and retries the user copy if the counter changes. The helper
returns unsigned long long because rq->nr_switches is u64, but the saved
value is unsigned int.

Once a CPU has performed 2^32 context switches, assigning the counter to
cnt discards its upper bits. The comparison after the copy promotes cnt
back to unsigned long long, but the lost bits remain zero, so it reports a
change even when the task was never scheduled out. Every retry then fails
the same way until the 100-try guard warns and the user copy is abandoned.

This affects long-running systems and workloads with high context-switch
rates. A CPU switching 1,000 times per second takes about 50 days.

Store the sampled count in unsigned long long so the full value is
preserved.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 64cf7d058a ("tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260717173252.3431565-1-usama.arif@linux.dev
Reported-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-07-24 13:43:18 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
49b0a3f605 tracing/probes: Add this_cpu_read() and this_cpu_ptr() dereference method to fetcharg
When tracing the kernel local variables, sometimes we need to get the
CPU local variables. To access it, current simple dereference is not
enough.

Thus, introduce a special this_cpu_read() dereference to access per-cpu
variable for the current CPU (accessing other CPU variable may race with
updates on other CPUs). Also this_cpu_ptr() is for accessing per-cpu
pointer.

Those are working as same as the kernel percpu macro.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271367680.1176915.4711734074448973989.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2026-07-14 22:43:16 +09:00
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
738b78ee4b tracing/probes: Add $current variable support
Since we can use the BTF to cast value to a structure pointer type,
it is useful to introduce "$current" special variable support to
fetcharg.

User can define a fetcharg to access current task_struct properties
using BTF info. e.g.

  $current->cpus_ptr

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271366709.1176915.15320906169981578568.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2026-07-14 22:43:16 +09:00
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
f218345240 tracing/probes: Support field specifier option for typecast
Add a field specifier option for the typecast. This works like
container_of() macro.

    (STRUCT[,FIELD[.FIELD2...]])VAR

This is equivalent to :

    container_of(VAR, struct STRUCT, FIELD[.FIELD2...])

For example:

 echo "f tick_nohz_handler next_tick=(tick_sched,sched_timer)timer->next_tick" >> dynamic_events

This will trace tick_nohz_handler() with its tick_sched::next_tick which
is converted from @timer by contianer_of(tick, struct tick_sched, sched_timer).
So, if you enabkle both fprobes:tick_nohz_handler__entry and
timer:hrtimer_expire_entry events, we will see something like:


          <idle>-0       [002] d.h1.  3778.087272: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=00000000d63db328 f
unction=tick_nohz_handler now=3777450051040
          <idle>-0       [002] d.h1.  3778.087281: tick_nohz_handler__entry: (tick_nohz_handler+0x4
/0x140) next_tick=3777450000000


Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271365745.1176915.725923927180862257.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2026-07-14 22:43:16 +09:00
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
60432df556 tracing/probes: Support nested typecast
When we hit an open parenthesis right after typecast closing
parenthesis, it means we have nested typecast. This allows us to
typecast a generic data member in a structure to a pointer to
another structure.

For example, to cast a DATA_MEMBER of VAR structure to STRUCT pointer
and get MEMBER value.

  (STRUCT)(VAR->DATA_MEMBER)->MEMBER

Also, we can nest typecast.

  (STRUCT1)((STRUCT2)$ARG->FIELD2)->FIELD1

Currently the max nest level is limited to 3.

This also allows user to use typecasting for registers or stacks on
kprobe events. e.g.

  (STRUCT)(%ax)->MEMBER

  (STRUCT)($stack0)->MEMBER


Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271363855.1176915.16793301788257446529.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2026-07-14 22:43:16 +09:00
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
438a8d6a82 tracing/probes: Support typecast for various probe events
Support BTF typecast feature on other probe events, but only if it is
kernel function entry or return, and must use function parameter name
or $retval. This means you can do:

  (STRUCT)PARAM->MEMBER

Note: you can not use other variables like $stackN, %reg etc. That
needs nesting support.

To support other probe events, we just need to use last_struct type
when we find a function parameter in parse_btf_arg().

This also updates <tracefs>/README file to show struct typecast.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271362928.1176915.12235759508786922490.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
2026-07-14 22:43:16 +09:00
Ben Dooks
d5c6785f94 tracing: Make tracepoint_printk static as not exported
The tracepoint_printk symbol is not exported, so make it
static to remove the following sparse warning:

kernel/trace/trace.c:90:5: warning: symbol 'tracepoint_printk' was not declared. Should it be static?

Fixes: dd293df639 ("tracing: Move trace sysctls into trace.c")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260617105822.904164-1-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-07-07 10:39:12 -04:00
Wayen.Yan
a20b08de86 tracing: Remove unused ret assignment in tracing_set_tracer()
In tracing_set_tracer(), the assignment 'ret = 0' following the
__tracing_resize_ring_buffer() error check is a dead store. After
this point, all subsequent code paths either return with a constant
value (-EINVAL, 0, -EBUSY) or reassign ret before reading it
(tracing_arm_snapshot_locked, tracer_init).

Remove the unnecessary assignment.

No functional change.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6a2a37c4.f0a9eb5a.2fc603.7724@mx.google.com
Signed-off-by: Wayen.Yan <win847@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-07-06 15:00:01 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
9ecfb2f728 Merge tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt

 - Do not invalidate entire buffer for invalid sub-buffers

   For the persistent ring buffer, if one sub-buffer is found to be
   invalid, it invalidates the entire per CPU ring buffer. This can lose
   a lot of valuable data if there's some corruption with the writes to
   the buffer not syncing properly on a hard crash. Instead, if a
   sub-buffer is found to be invalid, simply zero it out and mark it for
   "missed events".

   When the persistent ring buffer is read and a sub-buffer that was
   cleared due to being invalid on boot up is discovered, the output
   will show "[LOST EVENTS]" to let the user know that events were
   missing at that location. Displaying the events from valid buffers
   can still be useful.

 - Add a test to be able to test corrupted sub-buffers

   If a persistent ring buffer is created as "ptraingtest" and the new
   config that adds the test is enabled, when a panic happens, the
   kernel will randomly corrupt one of the per CPU ring buffers. On boot
   up, the sub-buffers with the corruption should be cleared and
   flagged. When reading this buffer, the missed events should should
   [LOST EVENTS].

 - Add commit number in the sub-buffer meta debug info

   The commit is used to know the content of a meta page. Add it to the
   buffer_meta file that is shown for each per CPU buffer.

 - Clean up the persistent ring buffer validation code

   Add some helper functions and make variable names more consistent.

* tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Better comment the use of RB_MISSED_EVENTS
  ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace_pipe file
  ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace file
  ring-buffer: Have dropped subbuffers be persistent across reboots
  ring-buffer: Cleanup buffer_data_page related code
  ring-buffer: Cleanup persistent ring buffer validation
  ring-buffer: Show commit numbers in buffer_meta file
  ring-buffer: Add persistent ring buffer invalid-page inject test
  ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when rewinding persistent ring buffer
  ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when validating persistent ring buffer
2026-06-18 21:23:22 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
68413a36f0 ring-buffer: Add persistent ring buffer invalid-page inject test
Add a self-corrupting test for the persistent ring buffer.

This will inject an erroneous value to some sub-buffer pages (where
the index is even or multiples of 5) in the persistent ring buffer
when the kernel panics, and checks whether the number of detected
invalid pages and the total entry_bytes are the same as the recorded
values after reboot.

This ensures that the kernel can correctly recover a partially
corrupted persistent ring buffer after a reboot or panic.

The test only runs on the persistent ring buffer whose name is
"ptracingtest". The user has to fill it with events before a
kernel panic.

To run the test, enable CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_PERSISTENT_INJECT
and add the following kernel cmdline:

 reserve_mem=20M:2M:trace trace_instance=ptracingtest^traceoff@trace
 panic=1

Run the following commands after the 1st boot:

 cd /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/ptracingtest
 echo 1 > tracing_on
 echo 1 > events/enable
 sleep 3
 echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

After panic message, the kernel will reboot and run the verification
on the persistent ring buffer, e.g.

 Ring buffer meta [2] invalid buffer page detected
 Ring buffer meta [2] is from previous boot! (318 pages discarded)
 Ring buffer testing [2] invalid pages: PASSED (318/318)
 Ring buffer testing [2] entry_bytes: PASSED (1300476/1300476)

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.260140328@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-28 22:40:51 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
292c8197e3 tracing: Move trace_iterator_increment() into trace_find_next_entry_inc()
trace_iterator_increment() is only called from trace_find_next_entry_inc().
It's a small enough function that really doesn't need to be separated.

Move the code from trace_iterator_increment() into
trace_find_next_entry_inc() and remove trace_iterator_increment().

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521095026.20c9799d@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-21 18:16:35 -04:00
Ao Sun
3a5b296575 tracing: Fix README path for synthetic_events
The events/ prefix should be removed, since synthetic_events
is now directly under the tracing root directory.

Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521015211.111-1-ao.sun@transsion.com
Signed-off-by: Ao Sun <ao.sun@transsion.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-21 18:03:08 -04:00
Yu Peng
153498f200 tracing: Use krealloc_array() for trace option array growth
Use krealloc_array() when growing tr->topts instead of open-coding the
size calculation in krealloc().

This makes the resize path use the helper intended for array allocations
and avoids manual multiplication of the element count and element size.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519083409.3885032-1-pengyu@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Yu Peng <pengyu@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-21 18:03:08 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
cb30bf881c Merge tag 'trace-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Fix printf format warning for bprintf

   sunrpc uses a trace_printk() that triggers a printf warning during
   the compile. Move the __printf() attribute around for when debugging
   is not enabled the warning will go away

 - Remove redundant check for EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED in
   event_filter_write()

   The FREED flag is checked in the call to event_file_file() and then
   checked again right afterward, which is unneeded

 - Clean up event_file_file() and event_file_data() helpers

   These helper functions played a different role in the past, but now
   with eventfs, the READ_ONCE() isn't needed. Simplify the code a bit
   and also add a warning to event_file_data() if the file or its data
   is not present

 - Remove updating file->private_data in tracing open

   All access to the file private data is handled by the helper
   functions, which do not use file->private_data. Stop updating it on
   open

 - Show ENUM names in function arguments via BTF in function tracing

   When showing the function arguments when func-args option is set for
   function tracing, if one of the arguments is found to be an enum,
   show the name of the enum instead of its number

 - Add new trace_call__##name() API for tracepoints

   Tracepoints are enabled via static_branch() blocks, where when not
   enabled, there's only a nop that is in the code where the execution
   will just skip over it. When tracing is enabled, the nop is converted
   to a direct jump to the tracepoint code. Sometimes more calculations
   are required to be performed to update the parameters of the
   tracepoint. In this case, trace_##name##_enabled() is called which is
   a static_branch() that gets enabled only when the tracepoint is
   enabled. This allows the extra calculations to also be skipped by the
   nop:

	if (trace_foo_enabled()) {
		x = bar();
		trace_foo(x);
	}

   Where the x=bar() is only performed when foo is enabled. The problem
   with this approach is that there's now two static_branch() calls. One
   for checking if the tracepoint is enabled, and then again to know if
   the tracepoint should be called. The second one is redundant

   Introduce trace_call__foo() that will call the foo() tracepoint
   directly without doing a static_branch():

	if (trace_foo_enabled()) {
		x = bar();
		trace_call__foo();
	}

 - Update various locations to use the new trace_call__##name() API

 - Move snapshot code out of trace.c

   Cleaning up trace.c to not be a "dump all", move the snapshot code
   out of it and into a new trace_snapshot.c file

 - Clean up some "%*.s" to "%*s"

 - Allow boot kernel command line options to be called multiple times

   Have options like:

	ftrace_filter=foo ftrace_filter=bar ftrace_filter=zoo

   Equal to:

	ftrace_filter=foo,bar,zoo

 - Fix ipi_raise event CPU field to be a CPU field

   The ipi_raise target_cpus field is defined as a __bitmask(). There is
   now a __cpumask() field definition. Update the field to use that

 - Have hist_field_name() use a snprintf() and not a series of strcat()

   It's safer to use snprintf() that a series of strcat()

 - Fix tracepoint regfunc balancing

   A tracepoint can define a "reg" and "unreg" function that gets called
   before the tracepoint is enabled, and after it is disabled
   respectively. But on error, after the "reg" func is called and the
   tracepoint is not enabled, the "unreg" function is not called to tear
   down what the "reg" function performed

 - Fix output that shows what histograms are enabled

   Event variables are displayed incorrectly in the histogram output

   Instead of "sched.sched_wakeup.$var", it is showing
   "$sched.sched_wakeup.var" where the '$' is in the incorrect location

 - Some other simple cleanups

* tag 'trace-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (24 commits)
  selftests/ftrace: Add test case for fully-qualified variable references
  tracing: Fix fully-qualified variable reference printing in histograms
  tracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func()
  tracing: Rebuild full_name on each hist_field_name() call
  tracing: Report ipi_raise target CPUs as cpumask
  tracing: Remove duplicate latency_fsnotify() stub
  tracing: Preserve repeated trace_trigger boot parameters
  tracing: Append repeated boot-time tracing parameters
  tracing: Remove spurious default precision from show_event_trigger/filter formats
  cpufreq: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  tracing: Remove tracing_alloc_snapshot() when snapshot isn't defined
  tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.c
  mm: damon: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  btrfs: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  spi: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  i2c: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  kernel: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
  tracepoint: Add trace_call__##name() API
  tracing: trace_mmap.h: fix a kernel-doc warning
  tracing: Pretty-print enum parameters in function arguments
  ...
2026-04-17 09:43:12 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
3515572dd0 tracing: Allow backup to save persistent ring buffer before it starts
When the persistent ring buffer was first introduced, it did not make
sense to start tracing for it on the kernel command line. That's because
if there was a crash, the start of events would invalidate the events from
the previous boot that had the crash.

But now that there's a "backup" instance that can take a snapshot of the
persistent ring buffer when boot starts, it is possible to have the
persistent ring buffer start events at boot up and not lose the old events.

Update the code where the boot events start after all boot time instances
are created. This will allow the backup instance to copy the persistent
ring buffer from the previous boot, and allow the persistent ring buffer
to start tracing new events for the current boot.

  reserve_mem=100M:12M:trace trace_instance=boot_mapped^@trace,sched trace_instance=backup=boot_mapped

The above will create a boot_mapped persistent ring buffer and enabled the
scheduler events. If there's a crash, a "backup" instance will be created
holding the events of the persistent ring buffer from the previous boot,
while the persistent ring buffer will once again start tracing scheduler
events of the current boot.

Now the user doesn't have to remember to start the persistent ring buffer.
It will always have the events started at each boot.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260331163924.6ccb3896@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-04-02 13:29:08 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
eca33fdab4 tracing: Remove the backup instance automatically after read
Since the backup instance is readonly, after reading all data via pipe, no
data is left on the instance. Thus it can be removed safely after closing
all files.  This also removes it if user resets the ring buffer manually
via 'trace' file.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177502547711.1311542.12572973358010839400.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-04-02 13:22:30 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2c79da099a tracing: Make the backup instance non-reusable
Since there is no reason to reuse the backup instance, make it readonly
(but erasable).  Note that only backup instances are readonly, because
other trace instances will be empty unless it is writable.  Only backup
instances have copy entries from the original.

With this change, most of the trace control files are removed from the
backup instance, including eventfs enable/filter etc.

 # find /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/backup/events/ | wc -l
 4093
 # find /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_map/events/ | wc -l
 9573

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177502546939.1311542.1826814401724828930.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-04-02 13:20:38 -04:00
Wesley Atwell
842b74e5ce tracing: Append repeated boot-time tracing parameters
Some tracing boot parameters already accept delimited value lists, but
their __setup() handlers keep only the last instance seen at boot.
Make repeated instances append to the same boot-time buffer in the
format each parser already consumes.

Use a shared trace_append_boot_param() helper for the ftrace filters,
trace_options, and kprobe_event boot parameters.

This also lets Bootconfig array values work naturally when they expand
to repeated param=value entries.

Before this change, only the last instance from each repeated
parameter survived boot.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330181103.1851230-1-atwellwea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wesley Atwell <atwellwea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-31 14:52:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
724d197aae tracing: Remove tracing_alloc_snapshot() when snapshot isn't defined
The function tracing_alloc_snapshot() is only used between trace.c and
trace_snapshot.c. When snapshot isn't configured, it's not used at all.
The stub function was defined as a global with no users and no prototype
causing build issues.

Remove the function when snapshot isn't configured as nothing is calling
it.

Also remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() that was associated with it as it's
not used outside of the tracing subsystem which also includes any modules.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260328101946.2c4ef4a5@robin
Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/acb-IuZ4vDkwwQLW@sirena.co.uk/
Fixes: bade44fe54 (tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.c)
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-28 10:26:38 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
bade44fe54 tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.c
The trace.c file was a dumping ground for most tracing code. Start
organizing it better by moving various functions out into their own files.
Move all the snapshot code, including the max trace code into its own
trace_snapshot.c file.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324140145.36352d6a@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-26 10:24:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
dc1d9408c9 Merge commit 'f35dbac6942171dc4ce9398d1d216a59224590a9' into trace/ring-buffer/core
The commit f35dbac694 ("ring-buffer: Fix to update per-subbuf entries of
persistent ring buffer") was a fix and merged upstream. It is needed for
some other work in the ring buffer. The current branch has the remote
buffer code that is shared with the Arm64 subsystem and can't be rebased.

Merge in the upstream commit to allow continuing of the ring buffer work.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-24 22:19:21 -04:00
Petr Pavlu
f54f08b1b8 tracing: Free up file->private_data for use by individual events
The tracing_open_file_tr() function currently copies the trace_event_file
pointer from inode->i_private to file->private_data when the file is
successfully opened. This duplication is not particularly useful, as all
event code should utilize event_file_file() or event_file_data() to
retrieve a trace_event_file pointer from a file struct and these access
functions read file->f_inode->i_private. Moreover, this setup requires the
code for opening hist files to explicitly clear file->private_data before
calling single_open(), since this function expects the private_data member
to be set to NULL and uses it to store a pointer to a seq_file.

Remove the unnecessary setting of file->private_data in
tracing_open_file_tr() and simplify the hist code.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219162737.314231-6-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-23 20:16:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
07183aac4a tracing: Fix trace_marker copy link list updates
When the "copy_trace_marker" option is enabled for an instance, anything
written into /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_marker is also copied into that
instances buffer. When the option is set, that instance's trace_array
descriptor is added to the marker_copies link list. This list is protected
by RCU, as all iterations uses an RCU protected list traversal.

When the instance is deleted, all the flags that were enabled are cleared.
This also clears the copy_trace_marker flag and removes the trace_array
descriptor from the list.

The issue is after the flags are called, a direct call to
update_marker_trace() is performed to clear the flag. This function
returns true if the state of the flag changed and false otherwise. If it
returns true here, synchronize_rcu() is called to make sure all readers
see that its removed from the list.

But since the flag was already cleared, the state does not change and the
synchronization is never called, leaving a possible UAF bug.

Move the clearing of all flags below the updating of the copy_trace_marker
option which then makes sure the synchronization is performed.

Also use the flag for checking the state in update_marker_trace() instead
of looking at if the list is empty.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318185512.1b6c7db4@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 7b382efd5e ("tracing: Allow the top level trace_marker to write into another instances")
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260225133122.237275-1-sashal@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-21 16:43:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
edca33a562 tracing: Fix failure to read user space from system call trace events
The system call trace events call trace_user_fault_read() to read the user
space part of some system calls. This is done by grabbing a per-cpu
buffer, disabling migration, enabling preemption, calling
copy_from_user(), disabling preemption, enabling migration and checking if
the task was preempted while preemption was enabled. If it was, the buffer
is considered corrupted and it tries again.

There's a safety mechanism that will fail out of this loop if it fails 100
times (with a warning). That warning message was triggered in some
pi_futex stress tests. Enabling the sched_switch trace event and
traceoff_on_warning, showed the problem:

 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981648: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981651: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981656: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981659: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981664: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981667: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981671: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981675: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981679: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981682: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981687: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981690: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981695: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981698: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981703: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981706: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981711: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981714: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981719: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981722: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981727: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981730: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
 pi_mutex_hammer-1375    [006] d..21   138.981735: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
     migration/6-47      [006] d..2.   138.981738: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95

What happened was the task 1375 was flagged to be migrated. When
preemption was enabled, the migration thread woke up to migrate that task,
but failed because migration for that task was disabled. This caused the
loop to fail to exit because the task scheduled out while trying to read
user space.

Every time the task enabled preemption the migration thread would schedule
in, try to migrate the task, fail and let the task continue. But because
the loop would only enable preemption with migration disabled, it would
always fail because each time it enabled preemption to read user space,
the migration thread would try to migrate it.

To solve this, when the loop fails to read user space without being
scheduled out, enabled and disable preemption with migration enabled. This
will allow the migration task to successfully migrate the task and the
next loop should succeed to read user space without being scheduled out.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260316130734.1858a998@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 64cf7d058a ("tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-21 16:42:36 -04:00
Vincent Donnefort
330b0cceb3 tracing: Add non-consuming read to trace remotes
Allow reading the trace file for trace remotes. This performs a
non-consuming read of the trace buffer.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-8-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-09 12:33:54 -04:00
Vincent Donnefort
96e43537af tracing: Introduce trace remotes
A trace remote relies on ring-buffer remotes to read and control
compatible tracing buffers, written by entity such as firmware or
hypervisor.

Add a Tracefs directory remotes/ that contains all instances of trace
remotes. Each instance follows the same hierarchy as any other to ease
the support by existing user-space tools.

This currently does not provide any event support, which will come
later.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-6-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-09 12:33:53 -04:00
Calvin Owens
d008ba8be8 tracing: Fix trace_buf_size= cmdline parameter with sizes >= 2G
Some of the sizing logic through tracer_alloc_buffers() uses int
internally, causing unexpected behavior if the user passes a value that
does not fit in an int (on my x86 machine, the result is uselessly tiny
buffers).

Fix by plumbing the parameter's real type (unsigned long) through to the
ring buffer allocation functions, which already use unsigned long.

It has always been possible to create larger ring buffers via the sysfs
interface: this only affects the cmdline parameter.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/bff42a4288aada08bdf74da3f5b67a2c28b761f8.1772852067.git.calvin@wbinvd.org
Fixes: 73c5162aa3 ("tracing: keep ring buffer to minimum size till used")
Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-06 22:25:53 -05:00
Qing Wang
e39bb9e02b tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close
When a process forks, the child process copies the parent's VMAs but the
user_mapped reference count is not incremented. As a result, when both the
parent and child processes exit, tracing_buffers_mmap_close() is called
twice. On the second call, user_mapped is already 0, causing the function to
return -ENODEV and triggering a WARN_ON.

Normally, this isn't an issue as the memory is mapped with VM_DONTCOPY set.
But this is only a hint, and the application can call
madvise(MADVISE_DOFORK) which resets the VM_DONTCOPY flag. When the
application does that, it can trigger this issue on fork.

Fix it by incrementing the user_mapped reference count without re-mapping
the pages in the VMA's open callback.

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: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227025842.1085206-1-wangqing7171@gmail.com
Fixes: cf9f0f7c4c ("tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer")
Reported-by: syzbot+3b5dd2030fe08afdf65d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3b5dd2030fe08afdf65d
Tested-by: syzbot+3b5dd2030fe08afdf65d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Qing Wang <wangqing7171@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-03 22:25:32 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
32a92f8c89 Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21 20:03:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bf4afc53b7 Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
Kees Cook
69050f8d6d treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
Haoyang LIU
fa4820b893 tracing: Fix indentation of return statement in print_trace_fmt()
The return statement inside the nested if block in print_trace_fmt()
is not properly indented, making the code structure unclear. This was
flagged by smatch as a warning.

Add proper indentation to the return statement to match the kernel
coding style and improve readability.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260210153903.8041-1-tttturtleruss@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Haoyang LIU <tttturtleruss@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-11 21:58:21 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
804c4a2209 tracing: Reset last_boot_info if ring buffer is reset
Commit 32dc004252 ("tracing: Reset last-boot buffers when reading
out all cpu buffers") resets the last_boot_info when user read out
all data via trace_pipe* files. But it is not reset when user
resets the buffer from other files. (e.g. write `trace` file)

Reset it when the corresponding ring buffer is reset too.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177071302364.2293046.17895165659153977720.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Fixes: 32dc004252 ("tracing: Reset last-boot buffers when reading out all cpu buffers")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-11 10:49:48 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
f844282dee tracing: Fix to set write permission to per-cpu buffer_size_kb
Since the per-cpu buffer_size_kb file is writable for changing
per-cpu ring buffer size, the file should have the write access
permission.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177071301597.2293046.11683339475076917920.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Fixes: 21ccc9cd72 ("tracing: Disable "other" permission bits in the tracefs files")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-11 10:48:44 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
c4f1fe47b1 tracing: Better separate SNAPSHOT and MAX_TRACE options
The latency tracers (scheduler, irqsoff, etc) were created when tracing
was first added. These tracers required a "snapshot" buffer that was the
same size as the ring buffer being written to. When a new max latency was
hit, the main ring buffer would swap with the snapshot buffer so that the
trace leading up to the latency would be saved in the snapshot buffer (The
snapshot buffer is never written to directly and the data within it can be
viewed without fear of being overwritten).

Later, a new feature was added to allow snapshots to be taken by user
space or even event triggers. This created a "snapshot" file that allowed
users to trigger a snapshot from user space to save the current trace.

The config for this new feature (CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT) would select the
latency tracer config (CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_LATENCY) as it would need all the
functionality from it as it already existed. But this was incorrect. As
the snapshot feature is really what the latency tracers need and not the
other way around.

Have CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE select CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT where the
tracers that needs the max latency buffer selects the TRACE_MAX_TRACE
which will then select TRACER_SNAPSHOT.

Also, go through trace.c and trace.h and make the code that only needs the
TRACER_MAX_TRACE protected by that and the code that always requires the
snapshot to be protected by TRACER_SNAPSHOT.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208183856.767870992@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08 21:01:13 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
e4c1a09afb tracing: Add tracer_uses_snapshot() helper to remove #ifdefs
Instead of having #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE around every access to
the struct tracer's use_max_tr field, add a helper function for that
access and if CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE is not configured it just returns
false.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208183856.599390238@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08 21:01:13 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
694b3f6fe0 tracing: Rename trace_array field max_buffer to snapshot_buffer
When tracing was first added, there were latency tracers that would take a
snapshot of the current trace when a new max latency was hit. This
snapshot buffer was called "max_buffer". Since then, a snapshot feature
was added that allowed user space or event triggers to trigger a snapshot
of the current buffer using the same max_buffer of the trace_array.

As this snapshot buffer now has a more generic use case, calling it
"max_buffer" is confusing. Rename it to snapshot_buffer.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208183856.428446729@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08 21:01:13 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
98021e37d6 tracing: Move pid filtering into trace_pid.c
The trace.c file was a dumping ground for most tracing code. Start
organizing it better by moving various functions out into their own files.
Move the PID filtering functions from trace.c into its own trace_pid.c
file.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032450.998330662@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08 21:01:13 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
27931ee8f4 tracing: Move trace_printk functions out of trace.c and into trace_printk.c
The file trace.c has become a catchall for most things tracing. Start
making it smaller by breaking out various aspects into their own files.

Move the functions associated to the trace_printk operations out of trace.c and
into trace_printk.c.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032450.828744197@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08 21:01:12 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
af1eea12ad tracing: Use system_state in trace_printk_init_buffers()
The function trace_printk_init_buffers() is used to expand tha
trace_printk buffers when trace_printk() is used within the kernel or in
modules. On kernel boot up, it holds off from starting the sched switch
cmdline recorder, but will start it immediately when it is added by a
module.

Currently it uses a trick to see if the global_trace buffer has been
allocated or not to know if it was called by module load or not. But this
is more of a hack, and can not be used when this code is moved out of
trace.c. Instead simply look at the system_state and if it is running then
it is know that it could only be called by module load.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032450.660237094@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08 21:01:12 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
f377912b3d tracing: Have trace_printk functions use flags instead of using global_trace
The trace.c file has become a dumping ground for all tracing code and has
become quite large. In order to move the trace_printk functions out of it
these functions can not access global_trace directly, as that is something
that needs to stay static in trace.c.

Instead of testing the trace_array tr pointer to &global_trace, test the
tr->flags to see if TRACE_ARRAY_FL_GLOBAL set.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032450.491116245@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08 21:01:12 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
93c88d06ac tracing: Make tracing_update_buffers() take NULL for global_trace
The trace.c file has become a dumping ground for all tracing code and has
become quite large. In order to move the trace_printk functions out of it
these functions can not access global_trace directly, as that is something
that needs to stay static in trace.c.

Have tracing_update_buffers() take NULL for its trace_array to denote it
should work on the global_trace top level trace_array allows that function
to be used outside of trace.c and still update the global_trace
trace_array.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032450.318864210@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08 21:01:12 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
1c53d781d4 tracing: Make printk_trace global for tracing system
The printk_trace is used to determine which trace_array trace_printk()
writes to. By making it a global variable among the tracing subsystem it
will allow the trace_printk functions to be moved out of trace.c and still
have direct access to that variable.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032450.144525891@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08 21:01:12 -05:00