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* [for-linus][PATCH 0/7] tracing: Fixes for 5.14-rc2
@ 2021-07-23 12:54 Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:54 ` [for-linus][PATCH 1/7] tracing: Fix bug in rb_per_cpu_empty() that might cause deadloop Steven Rostedt
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From: Steven Rostedt @ 2021-07-23 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Colin Ian King, Haoran Luo,
	Nicolas Saenz Julienne


- Fix deadloop in ring buffer because of using stale "read" variable

- Fix synthetic event use of field_pos as boolean and not an index

- Fixed histogram special var "cpu" overriding event fields called "cpu"

- Cleaned up error prone logic in alloc_synth_event()

- Removed call to synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() when not needed

- Removed redundant initialization of a local variable "ret"

- Fixed kernel crash when updating tracepoint callbacks of different
  priorities.


Colin Ian King (1):
      ftrace: Remove redundant initialization of variable ret

Haoran Luo (1):
      tracing: Fix bug in rb_per_cpu_empty() that might cause deadloop.

Nicolas Saenz Julienne (1):
      ftrace: Avoid synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() call when not necessary

Steven Rostedt (VMware) (4):
      tracing: Synthetic event field_pos is an index not a boolean
      tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"
      tracing: Clean up alloc_synth_event()
      tracepoints: Update static_call before tp_funcs when adding a tracepoint

----
 Documentation/trace/histogram.rst |  2 +-
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c             |  5 +++--
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c        | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 kernel/trace/trace.c              |  4 ++++
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c  | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c |  8 +++-----
 kernel/trace/trace_synth.h        |  2 +-
 kernel/tracepoint.c               |  2 +-
 8 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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* [for-linus][PATCH 1/7] tracing: Fix bug in rb_per_cpu_empty() that might cause deadloop.
  2021-07-23 12:54 [for-linus][PATCH 0/7] tracing: Fixes for 5.14-rc2 Steven Rostedt
@ 2021-07-23 12:54 ` Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:54 ` [for-linus][PATCH 2/7] tracing: Synthetic event field_pos is an index not a boolean Steven Rostedt
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From: Steven Rostedt @ 2021-07-23 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, stable, Linus Torvalds, Haoran Luo

From: Haoran Luo <www@aegistudio.net>

The "rb_per_cpu_empty()" misinterpret the condition (as not-empty) when
"head_page" and "commit_page" of "struct ring_buffer_per_cpu" points to
the same buffer page, whose "buffer_data_page" is empty and "read" field
is non-zero.

An error scenario could be constructed as followed (kernel perspective):

1. All pages in the buffer has been accessed by reader(s) so that all of
them will have non-zero "read" field.

2. Read and clear all buffer pages so that "rb_num_of_entries()" will
return 0 rendering there's no more data to read. It is also required
that the "read_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to the same
page, while "head_page" is the next page of them.

3. Invoke "ring_buffer_lock_reserve()" with large enough "length"
so that it shot pass the end of current tail buffer page. Now the
"head_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to the same page.

4. Discard current event with "ring_buffer_discard_commit()", so that
"head_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to a page whose buffer
data page is now empty.

When the error scenario has been constructed, "tracing_read_pipe" will
be trapped inside a deadloop: "trace_empty()" returns 0 since
"rb_per_cpu_empty()" returns 0 when it hits the CPU containing such
constructed ring buffer. Then "trace_find_next_entry_inc()" always
return NULL since "rb_num_of_entries()" reports there's no more entry
to read. Finally "trace_seq_to_user()" returns "-EBUSY" spanking
"tracing_read_pipe" back to the start of the "waitagain" loop.

I've also written a proof-of-concept script to construct the scenario
and trigger the bug automatically, you can use it to trace and validate
my reasoning above:

  https://github.com/aegistudio/RingBufferDetonator.git

Tests has been carried out on linux kernel 5.14-rc2
(2734d6c1b1a089fb593ef6a23d4b70903526fe0c), my fixed version
of kernel (for testing whether my update fixes the bug) and
some older kernels (for range of affected kernels). Test result is
also attached to the proof-of-concept repository.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/YPaNxsIlb2yjSi5Y@aegistudio/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/YPgrN85WL9VyrZ55@aegistudio

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bf41a158cacba ("ring-buffer: make reentrant")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Haoran Luo <www@aegistudio.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index d1463eac11a3..e592d1df6f88 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -3880,10 +3880,30 @@ static bool rb_per_cpu_empty(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 	if (unlikely(!head))
 		return true;
 
-	return reader->read == rb_page_commit(reader) &&
-		(commit == reader ||
-		 (commit == head &&
-		  head->read == rb_page_commit(commit)));
+	/* Reader should exhaust content in reader page */
+	if (reader->read != rb_page_commit(reader))
+		return false;
+
+	/*
+	 * If writers are committing on the reader page, knowing all
+	 * committed content has been read, the ring buffer is empty.
+	 */
+	if (commit == reader)
+		return true;
+
+	/*
+	 * If writers are committing on a page other than reader page
+	 * and head page, there should always be content to read.
+	 */
+	if (commit != head)
+		return false;
+
+	/*
+	 * Writers are committing on the head page, we just need
+	 * to care about there're committed data, and the reader will
+	 * swap reader page with head page when it is to read data.
+	 */
+	return rb_page_commit(commit) == 0;
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.30.2

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* [for-linus][PATCH 2/7] tracing: Synthetic event field_pos is an index not a boolean
  2021-07-23 12:54 [for-linus][PATCH 0/7] tracing: Fixes for 5.14-rc2 Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:54 ` [for-linus][PATCH 1/7] tracing: Fix bug in rb_per_cpu_empty() that might cause deadloop Steven Rostedt
@ 2021-07-23 12:54 ` Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:54 ` [for-linus][PATCH 3/7] tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu" Steven Rostedt
                   ` (4 subsequent siblings)
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From: Steven Rostedt @ 2021-07-23 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Masami Hiramatsu, Namhyung Kim,
	stable, Tom Zanussi

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Performing the following:

 ># echo 'wakeup_lat s32 pid; u64 delta; char wake_comm[]' > synthetic_events
 ># echo 'hist:keys=pid:__arg__1=common_timestamp.usecs' > events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
 ># echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:pid=next_pid,delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$__arg__1:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wakeup_lat,$pid,$delta,prev_comm)'\
      > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
 ># echo 1 > events/synthetic/enable

Crashed the kernel:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001b
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-test+ #104
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v03.03 07/14/2016
 RIP: 0010:strlen+0x0/0x20
 Code: f6 82 80 2b 0b bc 20 74 11 0f b6 50 01 48 83 c0 01 f6 82 80 2b 0b bc
  20 75 ef c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 <80> 3f 00 74 10
  48 89 f8 48 83 c0 01 80 38 9 f8 c3 31
 RSP: 0018:ffffaa75000d79d0 EFLAGS: 00010046
 RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff9cdb55575270 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: ffff9cdb58c7a320 RSI: ffffaa75000d7b40 RDI: 000000000000001b
 RBP: ffffaa75000d7b40 R08: ffff9cdb40a4f010 R09: ffffaa75000d7ab8
 R10: ffff9cdb4398c700 R11: 0000000000000008 R12: ffff9cdb58c7a320
 R13: ffff9cdb55575270 R14: ffff9cdb58c7a000 R15: 0000000000000018
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9cdb5aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000000000001b CR3: 00000000c0612006 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  trace_event_raw_event_synth+0x90/0x1d0
  action_trace+0x5b/0x70
  event_hist_trigger+0x4bd/0x4e0
  ? cpumask_next_and+0x20/0x30
  ? update_sd_lb_stats.constprop.0+0xf6/0x840
  ? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x125/0x550
  ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90
  ? sched_clock_cpu+0xe/0xd0
  ? lock_release+0x155/0x440
  ? update_load_avg+0x8c/0x6f0
  ? enqueue_entity+0x18a/0x920
  ? __rb_reserve_next+0xe5/0x460
  ? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
  event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0
  trace_event_buffer_commit+0x1ae/0x240
  trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch+0x114/0x170
  __traceiter_sched_switch+0x39/0x50
  __schedule+0x431/0xb00
  schedule_idle+0x28/0x40
  do_idle+0x198/0x2e0
  cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20
  secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xc2/0xcb

The reason is that the dynamic events array keeps track of the field
position of the fields array, via the field_pos variable in the
synth_field structure. Unfortunately, that field is a boolean for some
reason, which means any field_pos greater than 1 will be a bug (in this
case it was 2).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721191008.638bce34@oasis.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bd82631d7ccdc ("tracing: Add support for dynamic strings to synthetic events")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_synth.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h b/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h
index 6e146b959dcd..4007fe95cf42 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ struct synth_field {
 	char *name;
 	size_t size;
 	unsigned int offset;
+	unsigned int field_pos;
 	bool is_signed;
 	bool is_string;
 	bool is_dynamic;
-	bool field_pos;
 };
 
 struct synth_event {
-- 
2.30.2

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* [for-linus][PATCH 3/7] tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"
  2021-07-23 12:54 [for-linus][PATCH 0/7] tracing: Fixes for 5.14-rc2 Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:54 ` [for-linus][PATCH 1/7] tracing: Fix bug in rb_per_cpu_empty() that might cause deadloop Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:54 ` [for-linus][PATCH 2/7] tracing: Synthetic event field_pos is an index not a boolean Steven Rostedt
@ 2021-07-23 12:54 ` Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:54 ` [for-linus][PATCH 4/7] tracing: Clean up alloc_synth_event() Steven Rostedt
                   ` (3 subsequent siblings)
  6 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Steven Rostedt @ 2021-07-23 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Namhyung Kim, stable, Tom Zanussi,
	Masami Hiramatsu

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Currently the histogram logic allows the user to write "cpu" in as an
event field, and it will record the CPU that the event happened on.

The problem with this is that there's a lot of events that have "cpu"
as a real field, and using "cpu" as the CPU it ran on, makes it
impossible to run histograms on the "cpu" field of events.

For example, if I want to have a histogram on the count of the
workqueue_queue_work event on its cpu field, running:

 ># echo 'hist:keys=cpu' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger

Gives a misleading and wrong result.

Change the command to "common_cpu" as no event should have "common_*"
fields as that's a reserved name for fields used by all events. And
this makes sense here as common_cpu would be a field used by all events.

Now we can even do:

 ># echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu if cpu < 100' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
 ># cat events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/hist
 # event histogram
 #
 # trigger info: hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if cpu < 100 [active]
 #

 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          2 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          4 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          7, cpu:          7 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          7 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          1 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          6 } hitcount:          2
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          5 } hitcount:          2
 { common_cpu:          1, cpu:          1 } hitcount:          4
 { common_cpu:          6, cpu:          6 } hitcount:          4
 { common_cpu:          5, cpu:          5 } hitcount:         14
 { common_cpu:          4, cpu:          4 } hitcount:         26
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          0 } hitcount:         39
 { common_cpu:          2, cpu:          2 } hitcount:        184

Now for backward compatibility, I added a trick. If "cpu" is used, and
the field is not found, it will fall back to "common_cpu" and work as
it did before. This way, it will still work for old programs that use
"cpu" to get the actual CPU, but if the event has a "cpu" as a field, it
will get that event's "cpu" field, which is probably what it wants
anyway.

I updated the tracefs/README to include documentation about both the
common_timestamp and the common_cpu. This way, if that text is present in
the README, then an application can know that common_cpu is supported over
just plain "cpu".

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721110053.26b4f641@oasis.local.home

Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8b7622bf94a44 ("tracing: Add cpu field for hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 Documentation/trace/histogram.rst |  2 +-
 kernel/trace/trace.c              |  4 ++++
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c  | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst b/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
index b71e09f745c3..f99be8062bc8 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Documentation written by Tom Zanussi
                                 with the event, in nanoseconds.  May be
 			        modified by .usecs to have timestamps
 			        interpreted as microseconds.
-    cpu                    int  the cpu on which the event occurred.
+    common_cpu             int  the cpu on which the event occurred.
     ====================== ==== =======================================
 
 Extended error information
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index f8b80b5bab71..c59dd35a6da5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -5609,6 +5609,10 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
 	"\t            [:name=histname1]\n"
 	"\t            [:<handler>.<action>]\n"
 	"\t            [if <filter>]\n\n"
+	"\t    Note, special fields can be used as well:\n"
+	"\t            common_timestamp - to record current timestamp\n"
+	"\t            common_cpu - to record the CPU the event happened on\n"
+	"\n"
 	"\t    When a matching event is hit, an entry is added to a hash\n"
 	"\t    table using the key(s) and value(s) named, and the value of a\n"
 	"\t    sum called 'hitcount' is incremented.  Keys and values\n"
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 16a9dfc9fffc..34325f41ebc0 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ static const char *hist_field_name(struct hist_field *field,
 		 field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_ALIAS)
 		field_name = hist_field_name(field->operands[0], ++level);
 	else if (field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU)
-		field_name = "cpu";
+		field_name = "common_cpu";
 	else if (field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_EXPR ||
 		 field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF) {
 		if (field->system) {
@@ -1991,14 +1991,24 @@ parse_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data, struct trace_event_file *file,
 		hist_data->enable_timestamps = true;
 		if (*flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP_USECS)
 			hist_data->attrs->ts_in_usecs = true;
-	} else if (strcmp(field_name, "cpu") == 0)
+	} else if (strcmp(field_name, "common_cpu") == 0)
 		*flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU;
 	else {
 		field = trace_find_event_field(file->event_call, field_name);
 		if (!field || !field->size) {
-			hist_err(tr, HIST_ERR_FIELD_NOT_FOUND, errpos(field_name));
-			field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-			goto out;
+			/*
+			 * For backward compatibility, if field_name
+			 * was "cpu", then we treat this the same as
+			 * common_cpu.
+			 */
+			if (strcmp(field_name, "cpu") == 0) {
+				*flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU;
+			} else {
+				hist_err(tr, HIST_ERR_FIELD_NOT_FOUND,
+					 errpos(field_name));
+				field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+				goto out;
+			}
 		}
 	}
  out:
@@ -5085,7 +5095,7 @@ static void hist_field_print(struct seq_file *m, struct hist_field *hist_field)
 		seq_printf(m, "%s=", hist_field->var.name);
 
 	if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU)
-		seq_puts(m, "cpu");
+		seq_puts(m, "common_cpu");
 	else if (field_name) {
 		if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR_REF ||
 		    hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_ALIAS)
-- 
2.30.2

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* [for-linus][PATCH 4/7] tracing: Clean up alloc_synth_event()
  2021-07-23 12:54 [for-linus][PATCH 0/7] tracing: Fixes for 5.14-rc2 Steven Rostedt
                   ` (2 preceding siblings ...)
  2021-07-23 12:54 ` [for-linus][PATCH 3/7] tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu" Steven Rostedt
@ 2021-07-23 12:54 ` Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:54 ` [for-linus][PATCH 5/7] ftrace: Avoid synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() call when not necessary Steven Rostedt
                   ` (2 subsequent siblings)
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From: Steven Rostedt @ 2021-07-23 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

alloc_synth_event() currently has the following code to initialize the
event fields and dynamic_fields:

	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < n_fields; i++) {
		event->fields[i] = fields[i];

		if (fields[i]->is_dynamic) {
			event->dynamic_fields[j] = fields[i];
			event->dynamic_fields[j]->field_pos = i;
			event->dynamic_fields[j++] = fields[i];
			event->n_dynamic_fields++;
		}
	}

1) It would make more sense to have all fields keep track of their
   field_pos.

2) event->dynmaic_fields[j] is assigned twice for no reason.

3) We can move updating event->n_dynamic_fields outside the loop, and just
   assign it to j.

This combination makes the code much cleaner.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721195341.29bb0f77@oasis.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
index 2ac75eb6aa86..9315fc03e303 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
@@ -893,15 +893,13 @@ static struct synth_event *alloc_synth_event(const char *name, int n_fields,
 	dyn_event_init(&event->devent, &synth_event_ops);
 
 	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < n_fields; i++) {
+		fields[i]->field_pos = i;
 		event->fields[i] = fields[i];
 
-		if (fields[i]->is_dynamic) {
-			event->dynamic_fields[j] = fields[i];
-			event->dynamic_fields[j]->field_pos = i;
+		if (fields[i]->is_dynamic)
 			event->dynamic_fields[j++] = fields[i];
-			event->n_dynamic_fields++;
-		}
 	}
+	event->n_dynamic_fields = j;
 	event->n_fields = n_fields;
  out:
 	return event;
-- 
2.30.2

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* [for-linus][PATCH 5/7] ftrace: Avoid synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() call when not necessary
  2021-07-23 12:54 [for-linus][PATCH 0/7] tracing: Fixes for 5.14-rc2 Steven Rostedt
                   ` (3 preceding siblings ...)
  2021-07-23 12:54 ` [for-linus][PATCH 4/7] tracing: Clean up alloc_synth_event() Steven Rostedt
@ 2021-07-23 12:54 ` Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:55 ` [for-linus][PATCH 6/7] ftrace: Remove redundant initialization of variable ret Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:55 ` [for-linus][PATCH 7/7] tracepoints: Update static_call before tp_funcs when adding a tracepoint Steven Rostedt
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From: Steven Rostedt @ 2021-07-23 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Nicolas Saenz Julienne

From: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>

synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() triggers IPIs and forces rescheduling on
all CPUs. It is a costly operation and, when targeting nohz_full CPUs,
very disrupting (hence the name). So avoid calling it when 'old_hash'
doesn't need to be freed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721114726.1545103-1-nsaenzju@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index e6fb3e6e1ffc..4fbcf560dd03 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -5985,7 +5985,8 @@ ftrace_graph_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 		 * infrastructure to do the synchronization, thus we must do it
 		 * ourselves.
 		 */
-		synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude();
+		if (old_hash != EMPTY_HASH)
+			synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude();
 
 		free_ftrace_hash(old_hash);
 	}
-- 
2.30.2

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* [for-linus][PATCH 6/7] ftrace: Remove redundant initialization of variable ret
  2021-07-23 12:54 [for-linus][PATCH 0/7] tracing: Fixes for 5.14-rc2 Steven Rostedt
                   ` (4 preceding siblings ...)
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@ 2021-07-23 12:55 ` Steven Rostedt
  2021-07-23 12:55 ` [for-linus][PATCH 7/7] tracepoints: Update static_call before tp_funcs when adding a tracepoint Steven Rostedt
  6 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Steven Rostedt @ 2021-07-23 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Colin Ian King

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

The variable ret is being initialized with a value that is never
read, it is being updated later on. The assignment is redundant and
can be removed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721120915.122278-1-colin.king@canonical.com

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 4fbcf560dd03..7b180f61e6d3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -7545,7 +7545,7 @@ int ftrace_is_dead(void)
  */
 int register_ftrace_function(struct ftrace_ops *ops)
 {
-	int ret = -1;
+	int ret;
 
 	ftrace_ops_init(ops);
 
-- 
2.30.2

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* [for-linus][PATCH 7/7] tracepoints: Update static_call before tp_funcs when adding a tracepoint
  2021-07-23 12:54 [for-linus][PATCH 0/7] tracing: Fixes for 5.14-rc2 Steven Rostedt
                   ` (5 preceding siblings ...)
  2021-07-23 12:55 ` [for-linus][PATCH 6/7] ftrace: Remove redundant initialization of variable ret Steven Rostedt
@ 2021-07-23 12:55 ` Steven Rostedt
  6 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Steven Rostedt @ 2021-07-23 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, stable, Stefan Metzmacher

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Because of the significant overhead that retpolines pose on indirect
calls, the tracepoint code was updated to use the new "static_calls" that
can modify the running code to directly call a function instead of using
an indirect caller, and this function can be changed at runtime.

In the tracepoint code that calls all the registered callbacks that are
attached to a tracepoint, the following is done:

	it_func_ptr = rcu_dereference_raw((&__tracepoint_##name)->funcs);
	if (it_func_ptr) {
		__data = (it_func_ptr)->data;
		static_call(tp_func_##name)(__data, args);
	}

If there's just a single callback, the static_call is updated to just call
that callback directly. Once another handler is added, then the static
caller is updated to call the iterator, that simply loops over all the
funcs in the array and calls each of the callbacks like the old method
using indirect calling.

The issue was discovered with a race between updating the funcs array and
updating the static_call. The funcs array was updated first and then the
static_call was updated. This is not an issue as long as the first element
in the old array is the same as the first element in the new array. But
that assumption is incorrect, because callbacks also have a priority
field, and if there's a callback added that has a higher priority than the
callback on the old array, then it will become the first callback in the
new array. This means that it is possible to call the old callback with
the new callback data element, which can cause a kernel panic.

	static_call = callback1()
	funcs[] = {callback1,data1};
	callback2 has higher priority than callback1

	CPU 1				CPU 2
	-----				-----

   new_funcs = {callback2,data2},
               {callback1,data1}

   rcu_assign_pointer(tp->funcs, new_funcs);

  /*
   * Now tp->funcs has the new array
   * but the static_call still calls callback1
   */

				it_func_ptr = tp->funcs [ new_funcs ]
				data = it_func_ptr->data [ data2 ]
				static_call(callback1, data);

				/* Now callback1 is called with
				 * callback2's data */

				[ KERNEL PANIC ]

   update_static_call(iterator);

To prevent this from happening, always switch the static_call to the
iterator before assigning the tp->funcs to the new array. The iterator will
always properly match the callback with its data.

To trigger this bug:

  In one terminal:

    while :; do hackbench 50; done

  In another terminal

    echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_waking/enable
    while :; do
        echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/set_event_pid;
        sleep 0.5
        echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/set_event_pid;
        sleep 0.5
   done

And it doesn't take long to crash. This is because the set_event_pid adds
a callback to the sched_waking tracepoint with a high priority, which will
be called before the sched_waking trace event callback is called.

Note, the removal to a single callback updates the array first, before
changing the static_call to single callback, which is the proper order as
the first element in the array is the same as what the static_call is
being changed to.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/4ebea8f0-58c9-e571-fd30-0ce4f6f09c70@samba.org/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d25e37d89dd2f ("tracepoint: Optimize using static_call()")
Reported-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
tested-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/tracepoint.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 976bf8ce8039..fc32821f8240 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -299,8 +299,8 @@ static int tracepoint_add_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
 	 * a pointer to it.  This array is referenced by __DO_TRACE from
 	 * include/linux/tracepoint.h using rcu_dereference_sched().
 	 */
-	rcu_assign_pointer(tp->funcs, tp_funcs);
 	tracepoint_update_call(tp, tp_funcs, false);
+	rcu_assign_pointer(tp->funcs, tp_funcs);
 	static_key_enable(&tp->key);
 
 	release_probes(old);
-- 
2.30.2

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