From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1424087AbcFMTIE (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2016 15:08:04 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:43585 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933545AbcFMSh3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:37:29 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Steven Rostedt" , "Chunyu Hu" Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 19:36:37 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 069/114] tracing: Don't display trigger file for events that can't be enabled In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.36-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -1584,8 +1584,13 @@ event_create_dir(struct dentry *parent, 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);