Commit 864be1277d3e for kernel
commit 864be1277d3e6bfb1201def9a32d46f542d8debd
Merge: 86d1022b2c4f 2c2b322acdcc
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun Jul 26 09:15:59 2026 -0700
Merge tag 'trace-v7.2-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Move rb_desc->nr_page_va before updating dynamic array
The rb_descr->page_va is a dynamic array counted by nr_page_va. But
the updating of the page_va[] is done before the nr_page_va is
incremented causing a build with CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS to flag it as an
overflow.
Move the increment of the counted by value before the array element
is updated.
- Propagate errors from remote event bulk updates
The return value of trace_remote_enable_event() was not being checked
by remote_events_dir_enable_write() where it would silently fail.
Have it check the return value and propagate that back up to user
space.
- Fix resource leak on mmiotrace trace_pipe close
The mmiotrace tracer was created in 2008 before the trace_pipe had a
close callback to allow tracers to do clean up from trace_pipe open.
The trace_pipe close cleanup callback was added in 2009 but the
mmiotrace tracer was not updated. It had a hack to do the cleanup in
the read call, where it may leak if user space did not read the
entire buffer.
Add a callback to mmiotrace trace_pipe close do to the cleanup
properly.
- Fix a possible NULL pointer dereference in the mmiotrace tracer
If the mmio_pipe_open() fails to find a PCI device, it will set the
hiter->dev pointer to NULL. The read function will blindly
dereference that pointer. Fix the read call to check to see if that
pointer is populated before dereferencing it.
- Fix union collision of module and refcnt for dynamic events
In 'struct trace_event_call', the 'module' pointer and the 'refcnt'
atomic variable share the same memory space in a union. The filter on
module logic only checked if the 'module' was set to determine if the
event belonged to the module. As dynamic events are always builtin,
it doesn't need the 'module' field of the structure and used a
refcount. But the module filtering logic would then mistaken these
dynamic events as a module and call module_name(event->module) on it.
Add a check to see if the event is a dynamic event and if so, do not
check it for being part of the given module.
- Reset the top level buffer in selftests before running instances
The ftracetest selftest initializes each instance before executing
the tests. But it does not reset the top level buffer. Dynamic events
are only added and removed by the top level so any left over dynamic
events will not be removed by the reset in the instances.
Left over dynamic events can cause the tests to incorrectly fail.
Reset the top level buffer before running the instances.
- Make the context_switch counter 64 bit
The code to read user space for a system call trace event or for a
trace_marker will disable migration, enable preemption, read user
space into a per CPU buffer, disable preemption and enable migration
again. It checks if the per CPU context switch counter to see if it
changed, and if it did not, it would know that the per CPU buffer was
not touched by another task.
But the save counter was 32 bit and it would compare it to the 64 bit
context_switch variable. A long running system could have the
context_switch variable greater that 1<<32 in which case the compare
will always fail. The compare will promote the 32 bit int saved value
to 64 bit and compare it to the full 64 bit counter. Since the top 32
bits of the saved value was zero, it would never match.
- Fix a use-after-free of the event_enable trigger
The event_enable trigger allows for enabling one event when another
event is triggered. When the trigger is removed, it must go through a
synchronization phase to make sure it is not triggered again. The
trigger itself is delayed by the "bulk delay" logic that was recently
added. But the code that frees the event_enable data used to rely on
the trigger code to do the synchronization. Now that the code uses
the call RCU functions (and a workqueue), that delay no longer is
there.
Add a callback private_data_free() function that allows triggers to
clean up data after the synchronization phase has completed.
- Move the module_ref counter into the delay callback
Since an event of the event_enable trigger can enable an event for a
module, it ups the module ref count for that event's module. This
prevents the event from trying to enable an event that no longer
exists and cause a use-after-free bug.
The ref counter was set back down when the trigger was removed but
not after thy synchronization phase. This could lead to the module
data being accessed after module was unloaded.
Move the module ref decrement into the private_data_free() callback
of the event_enable trigger.
- Add mutex to protect parser in ftrace filtering
The set_ftrace_filter file uses a parsing descriptor that is
allocated at open and modified by writes. If multiple threads were to
write to the descriptor at the same time, it can corrupt the parser.
Add a mutex around the modifications of the parser descriptor.
- Fix possible corruption in perf syscall tracing
The perf system call trace events can now read user space. To do so,
the reads of user space enable preemption and disables it again.
During this time that preemption is enabled, the task can migrate.
The perf event list head is assigned via a per CPU pointer. It is
done before the user space part is called. If the user space reading
migrates the task to another CPU, then the head pointer is no longer
valid.
Re-assign the head pointer after the reading of user space to keep it
using the correct data.
* tag 'trace-v7.2-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: perf: Fix stale head for perf syscall tracing
ftrace: Add global mutex to serialize trace_parser access
tracing: Delay module ref count for "enable_event" trigger
tracing: Fix use-after-free freeing trigger private data
tracing: Fix context switch counter truncation
selftests/ftrace: Reset triggers at top level before instance loop
tracing: Fix union collision of module and refcnt for dynamic events
tracing: Fix mmiotrace possible NULL dereferencing of hiter->dev
tracing: Fix resource leak on mmiotrace trace_pipe close
tracing: Propagate errors from remote event bulk updates
tracing/remotes: Fix page_va[] access before counter update in trace_remote_alloc_buffer()