From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752890AbcEIUFR (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2016 16:05:17 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:54876 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752108AbcEIT5T (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2016 15:57:19 -0400 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Chunyu Hu , Steven Rostedt , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 36/59] tracing: Don't display trigger file for events that can't be enabled Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 12:55:54 -0700 Message-Id: <1462823777-8384-37-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1462823777-8384-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1462823777-8384-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.2.8-ckt10 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Chunyu Hu commit 854145e0a8e9a05f7366d240e2f99d9c1ca6d6dd upstream. Currently register functions for events will be called through the 'reg' field of event class directly without any check when seting up triggers. Triggers for events that don't support register through debug fs (events under events/ftrace are for trace-cmd to read event format, and most of them don't have a register function except events/ftrace/functionx) can't be enabled at all, and an oops will be hit when setting up trigger for those events, so just not creating them is an easy way to avoid the oops. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462275274-3911-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com Fixes: 85f2b08268c01 ("tracing: Add basic event trigger framework") Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index 78234df..825b5e4 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -1626,8 +1626,13 @@ event_create_dir(struct dentry *parent, struct trace_event_file *file) trace_create_file("filter", 0644, file->dir, file, &ftrace_event_filter_fops); - trace_create_file("trigger", 0644, file->dir, file, - &event_trigger_fops); + /* + * Only event directories that can be enabled should have + * triggers. + */ + if (!(call->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE)) + trace_create_file("trigger", 0644, file->dir, file, + &event_trigger_fops); trace_create_file("format", 0444, file->dir, call, &ftrace_event_format_fops); -- 2.7.4