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<title>tracing: Fix crash from reading trace_pipe with sendfile</title>
<updated>2016-04-30T22:05:20Z</updated>
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commit a29054d9478d0435ab01b7544da4f674ab13f533 upstream.

If tracing contains data and the trace_pipe file is read with sendfile(),
then it can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and various BUG_ON within the
VM code.

There's a patch to fix this in the splice_to_pipe() code, but it's also a
good idea to not let that happen from trace_pipe either.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457641146-9068-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Reported-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin.vincent@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Have preempt(irqs)off trace preempt disabled functions</title>
<updated>2016-04-30T22:05:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2016-03-18T16:27:43Z</published>
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commit cb86e05390debcc084cfdb0a71ed4c5dbbec517d upstream.

Joel Fernandes reported that the function tracing of preempt disabled
sections was not being reported when running either the preemptirqsoff or
preemptoff tracers. This was due to the fact that the function tracer
callback for those tracers checked if irqs were disabled before tracing. But
this fails when we want to trace preempt off locations as well.

Joel explained that he wanted to see funcitons where interrupts are enabled
but preemption was disabled. The expected output he wanted:

   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.h1 3419us : preempt_count_sub &lt;-irq_exit
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3419us : __do_softirq &lt;-irq_exit
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3419us : msecs_to_jiffies &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3420us : irqtime_account_irq &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d..1 3420us : __local_bh_disable_ip &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3421us : run_timer_softirq &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3421us : hrtimer_run_pending &lt;-run_timer_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3421us : _raw_spin_lock_irq &lt;-run_timer_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s1 3422us : preempt_count_add &lt;-_raw_spin_lock_irq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s2 3422us : _raw_spin_unlock_irq &lt;-run_timer_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s2 3422us : preempt_count_sub &lt;-_raw_spin_unlock_irq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1..s1 3423us : rcu_bh_qs &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s1 3423us : irqtime_account_irq &lt;-__do_softirq
   &lt;...&gt;-2265    1d.s1 3423us : __local_bh_enable &lt;-__do_softirq

There's a comment saying that the irq disabled check is because there's a
possible race that tracing_cpu may be set when the function is executed. But
I don't remember that race. For now, I added a check for preemption being
enabled too to not record the function, as there would be no race if that
was the case. I need to re-investigate this, as I'm now thinking that the
tracing_cpu will always be correct. But no harm in keeping the check for
now, except for the slight performance hit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457770386-88717-1-git-send-email-agnel.joel@gmail.com

Fixes: 5e6d2b9cfa3a "tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers"
Cc: stable@vget.kernel.org # 2.6.37+
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;agnel.joel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ring-buffer: Update read stamp with first real commit on page</title>
<updated>2015-12-30T02:25:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2015-11-23T15:35:36Z</published>
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commit b81f472a208d3e2b4392faa6d17037a89442f4ce upstream.

Do not update the read stamp after swapping out the reader page from the
write buffer. If the reader page is swapped out of the buffer before an
event is written to it, then the read_stamp may get an out of date
timestamp, as the page timestamp is updated on the first commit to that
page.

rb_get_reader_page() only returns a page if it has an event on it, otherwise
it will return NULL. At that point, check if the page being returned has
events and has not been read yet. Then at that point update the read_stamp
to match the time stamp of the reader page.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>tracing/filter: Do not allow infix to exceed end of string</title>
<updated>2015-08-12T14:33:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T22:10:09Z</published>
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commit 6b88f44e161b9ee2a803e5b2b1fbcf4e20e8b980 upstream.

While debugging a WARN_ON() for filtering, I found that it is possible
for the filter string to be referenced after its end. With the filter:

 # echo '&gt;' &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter

The filter_parse() function can call infix_get_op() which calls
infix_advance() that updates the infix filter pointers for the cnt
and tail without checking if the filter is already at the end, which
will put the cnt to zero and the tail beyond the end. The loop then calls
infix_next() that has

	ps-&gt;infix.cnt--;
	return ps-&gt;infix.string[ps-&gt;infix.tail++];

The cnt will now be below zero, and the tail that is returned is
already passed the end of the filter string. So far the allocation
of the filter string usually has some buffer that is zeroed out, but
if the filter string is of the exact size of the allocated buffer
there's no guarantee that the charater after the nul terminating
character will be zero.

Luckily, only root can write to the filter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>tracing/filter: Do not WARN on operand count going below zero</title>
<updated>2015-08-12T14:33:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2015-06-25T22:02:29Z</published>
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commit b4875bbe7e68f139bd3383828ae8e994a0df6d28 upstream.

When testing the fix for the trace filter, I could not come up with
a scenario where the operand count goes below zero, so I added a
WARN_ON_ONCE(cnt &lt; 0) to the logic. But there is legitimate case
that it can happen (although the filter would be wrong).

 # echo '&gt;' &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter

That is, a single operation without any operands will hit the path
where the WARN_ON_ONCE() can trigger. Although this is harmless,
and the filter is reported as a error. But instead of spitting out
a warning to the kernel dmesg, just fail nicely and report it via
the proper channels.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/558C6082.90608@oracle.com

Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>tracing: Have filter check for balanced ops</title>
<updated>2015-08-06T23:32:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2015-06-15T21:50:25Z</published>
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commit 2cf30dc180cea808077f003c5116388183e54f9e upstream.

When the following filter is used it causes a warning to trigger:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo "((dev==1)blocks==2)" &gt; events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 # cat events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
((dev==1)blocks==2)
^
parse_error: No error

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1223 at kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c:1640 replace_preds+0x3c5/0x990()
 Modules linked in: bnep lockd grace bluetooth  ...
 CPU: 3 PID: 1223 Comm: bash Tainted: G        W       4.1.0-rc3-test+ #450
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v02.05 05/07/2012
  0000000000000668 ffff8800c106bc98 ffffffff816ed4f9 ffff88011ead0cf0
  0000000000000000 ffff8800c106bcd8 ffffffff8107fb07 ffffffff8136b46c
  ffff8800c7d81d48 ffff8800d4c2bc00 ffff8800d4d4f920 00000000ffffffea
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff816ed4f9&gt;] dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
  [&lt;ffffffff8107fb07&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x97/0xe0
  [&lt;ffffffff8136b46c&gt;] ? _kstrtoull+0x2c/0x80
  [&lt;ffffffff8107fb6a&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff81159065&gt;] replace_preds+0x3c5/0x990
  [&lt;ffffffff811596b2&gt;] create_filter+0x82/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81159944&gt;] apply_event_filter+0xd4/0x180
  [&lt;ffffffff81152bbf&gt;] event_filter_write+0x8f/0x120
  [&lt;ffffffff811db2a8&gt;] __vfs_write+0x28/0xe0
  [&lt;ffffffff811dda43&gt;] ? __sb_start_write+0x53/0xf0
  [&lt;ffffffff812e51e0&gt;] ? security_file_permission+0x30/0xc0
  [&lt;ffffffff811dc408&gt;] vfs_write+0xb8/0x1b0
  [&lt;ffffffff811dc72f&gt;] SyS_write+0x4f/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff816f5217&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x6a
 ---[ end trace e11028bd95818dcd ]---

Worse yet, reading the error message (the filter again) it says that
there was no error, when there clearly was. The issue is that the
code that checks the input does not check for balanced ops. That is,
having an op between a closed parenthesis and the next token.

This would only cause a warning, and fail out before doing any real
harm, but it should still not caues a warning, and the error reported
should work:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo "((dev==1)blocks==2)" &gt; events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 # cat events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
((dev==1)blocks==2)
^
parse_error: Meaningless filter expression

And give no kernel warning.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150615175025.7e809215@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the check for OP_NOT, which we don't have]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong sched_priority of producer</title>
<updated>2015-08-06T23:32:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Long</name>
<email>long.wanglong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-10T08:12:37Z</published>
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commit 108029323910c5dd1ef8fa2d10da1ce5fbce6e12 upstream.

The producer should be used producer_fifo as its sched_priority,
so correct it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433923957-67842-1-git-send-email-long.wanglong@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Wang Long &lt;long.wanglong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ftrace: Fix ftrace enable ordering of sysctl ftrace_enabled</title>
<updated>2015-05-09T22:16:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-07T00:55:13Z</published>
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commit 524a38682573b2e15ab6317ccfe50280441514be upstream.

Some archs (specifically PowerPC), are sensitive with the ordering of
the enabling of the calls to function tracing and setting of the
function to use to be traced.

That is, update_ftrace_function() sets what function the ftrace_caller
trampoline should call. Some archs require this to be set before
calling ftrace_run_update_code().

Another bug was discovered, that ftrace_startup_sysctl() called
ftrace_run_update_code() directly. If the function the ftrace_caller
trampoline changes, then it will not be updated. Instead a call
to ftrace_startup_enable() should be called because it tests to see
if the callback changed since the code was disabled, and will
tell the arch to update appropriately. Most archs do not need this
notification, but PowerPC does.

The problem could be seen by the following commands:

 # echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
 # echo function &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace

The trace will show that function tracing was not active.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ftrace: Fix en(dis)able graph caller when en(dis)abling record via sysctl</title>
<updated>2015-05-09T22:16:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Pratyush Anand</name>
<email>panand@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-06T18:28:06Z</published>
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commit 1619dc3f8f555ee1cdd3c75db3885d5715442b12 upstream.

When ftrace is enabled globally through the proc interface, we must check if
ftrace_graph_active is set. If it is set, then we should also pass the
FTRACE_START_FUNC_RET command to ftrace_run_update_code(). Similarly, when
ftrace is disabled globally through the proc interface, we must check if
ftrace_graph_active is set. If it is set, then we should also pass the
FTRACE_STOP_FUNC_RET command to ftrace_run_update_code().

Consider the following situation.

 # echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled

After this ftrace_enabled = 0.

 # echo function_graph &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

Since ftrace_enabled = 0, ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller() is never
called.

 # echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled

Now ftrace_enabled will be set to true, but still
ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller() will not be called, which is not
desired.

Further if we execute the following after this:
  # echo nop &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

Now since ftrace_enabled is set it will call
ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller(), which causes a kernel warning on
the ARM platform.

On the ARM platform, when ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller() is called,
it checks whether the old instruction is a nop or not. If it's not a nop,
then it returns an error. If it is a nop then it replaces instruction at
that address with a branch to ftrace_graph_caller.
ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller() behaves just the opposite. Therefore,
if generic ftrace code ever calls either ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller()
or ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller() consecutively two times in a row,
then it will return an error, which will cause the generic ftrace code to
raise a warning.

Note, x86 does not have an issue with this because the architecture
specific code for ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller() and
ftrace_disable_ftrace_graph_caller() does not check the previous state,
and calling either of these functions twice in a row has no ill effect.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e4fbe64cdac0dd0e86a3bf914b0f83c0b419f146.1425666454.git.panand@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand &lt;panand@redhat.com&gt;
[
  removed extra if (ftrace_start_up) and defined ftrace_graph_active as 0
  if CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER is not set.
]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing/syscalls: Ignore numbers outside NR_syscalls' range</title>
<updated>2014-12-14T16:23:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabin@rab.in</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-29T22:06:58Z</published>
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commit 086ba77a6db00ed858ff07451bedee197df868c9 upstream.

ARM has some private syscalls (for example, set_tls(2)) which lie
outside the range of NR_syscalls.  If any of these are called while
syscall tracing is being performed, out-of-bounds array access will
occur in the ftrace and perf sys_{enter,exit} handlers.

 # trace-cmd record -e raw_syscalls:* true &amp;&amp; trace-cmd report
 ...
 true-653   [000]   384.675777: sys_enter:            NR 192 (0, 1000, 3, 4000022, ffffffff, 0)
 true-653   [000]   384.675812: sys_exit:             NR 192 = 1995915264
 true-653   [000]   384.675971: sys_enter:            NR 983045 (76f74480, 76f74000, 76f74b28, 76f74480, 76f76f74, 1)
 true-653   [000]   384.675988: sys_exit:             NR 983045 = 0
 ...

 # trace-cmd record -e syscalls:* true
 [   17.289329] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address aaaaaace
 [   17.289590] pgd = 9e71c000
 [   17.289696] [aaaaaace] *pgd=00000000
 [   17.289985] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
 [   17.290169] Modules linked in:
 [   17.290391] CPU: 0 PID: 704 Comm: true Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2+ #21
 [   17.290585] task: 9f4dab00 ti: 9e710000 task.ti: 9e710000
 [   17.290747] PC is at ftrace_syscall_enter+0x48/0x1f8
 [   17.290866] LR is at syscall_trace_enter+0x124/0x184

Fix this by ignoring out-of-NR_syscalls-bounds syscall numbers.

Commit cd0980fc8add "tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscalls"
added the check for less than zero, but it should have also checked
for greater than NR_syscalls.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1414620418-29472-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Fixes: cd0980fc8add "tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscalls"
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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