linux/kernel
Linus Torvalds 68010e7b3d Tracing fixes for 7.0:
- Fix possible dereference of uninitialized pointer
 
   When validating the persistent ring buffer on boot up, if the first
   validation fails, a reference to "head_page" is performed in the
   error path, but it skips over the initialization of that variable.
   Move the initialization before the first validation check.
 
 - Fix use of event length in validation of persistent ring buffer
 
   On boot up, the persistent ring buffer is checked to see if it is
   valid by several methods. One being to walk all the events in the
   memory location to make sure they are all valid. The length of the
   event is used to move to the next event. This length is determined
   by the data in the buffer. If that length is corrupted, it could
   possibly make the next event to check located at a bad memory location.
 
   Validate the length field of the event when doing the event walk.
 
 - Fix function graph on archs that do not support use of ftrace_ops
 
   When an architecture defines HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, it means
   that its function graph tracer uses the ftrace_ops of the function
   tracer to call its callbacks. This allows a single registered callback
   to be called directly instead of checking the callback's meta data's
   hash entries against the function being traced.
 
   For architectures that do not support this feature, it must always
   call the loop function that tests each registered callback (even if
   there's only one). The loop function tests each callback's meta data
   against its hash of functions and will call its callback if the
   function being traced is in its hash map.
 
   The issue was that there was no check against this and the direct
   function was being called even if the architecture didn't support it.
   This meant that if function tracing was enabled at the same time
   as a callback was registered with the function graph tracer, its
   callback would be called for every function that the function tracer
   also traced, even if the callback's meta data only wanted to be
   called back for a small subset of functions.
 
   Prevent the direct calling for those architectures that do not support
   it.
 
 - Fix references to trace_event_file for hist files
 
   The hist files used event_file_data() to get a reference to the
   associated trace_event_file the histogram was attached to. This
   would return a pointer even if the trace_event_file is about to
   be freed (via RCU). Instead it should use the event_file_file()
   helper that returns NULL if the trace_event_file is marked to be
   freed so that no new references are added to it.
 
 - Wake up hist poll readers when an event is being freed
 
   When polling on a hist file, the task is only awoken when a hist
   trigger is triggered. This means that if an event is being freed
   while there's a task waiting on its hist file, it will need to wait
   until the hist trigger occurs to wake it up and allow the freeing
   to happen. Note, the event will not be completely freed until all
   references are removed, and a hist poller keeps a reference. But
   it should still be woken when the event is being freed.
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Merge tag 'trace-v7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Fix possible dereference of uninitialized pointer

   When validating the persistent ring buffer on boot up, if the first
   validation fails, a reference to "head_page" is performed in the
   error path, but it skips over the initialization of that variable.
   Move the initialization before the first validation check.

 - Fix use of event length in validation of persistent ring buffer

   On boot up, the persistent ring buffer is checked to see if it is
   valid by several methods. One being to walk all the events in the
   memory location to make sure they are all valid. The length of the
   event is used to move to the next event. This length is determined by
   the data in the buffer. If that length is corrupted, it could
   possibly make the next event to check located at a bad memory
   location.

   Validate the length field of the event when doing the event walk.

 - Fix function graph on archs that do not support use of ftrace_ops

   When an architecture defines HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, it means
   that its function graph tracer uses the ftrace_ops of the function
   tracer to call its callbacks. This allows a single registered
   callback to be called directly instead of checking the callback's
   meta data's hash entries against the function being traced.

   For architectures that do not support this feature, it must always
   call the loop function that tests each registered callback (even if
   there's only one). The loop function tests each callback's meta data
   against its hash of functions and will call its callback if the
   function being traced is in its hash map.

   The issue was that there was no check against this and the direct
   function was being called even if the architecture didn't support it.
   This meant that if function tracing was enabled at the same time as a
   callback was registered with the function graph tracer, its callback
   would be called for every function that the function tracer also
   traced, even if the callback's meta data only wanted to be called
   back for a small subset of functions.

   Prevent the direct calling for those architectures that do not
   support it.

 - Fix references to trace_event_file for hist files

   The hist files used event_file_data() to get a reference to the
   associated trace_event_file the histogram was attached to. This would
   return a pointer even if the trace_event_file is about to be freed
   (via RCU). Instead it should use the event_file_file() helper that
   returns NULL if the trace_event_file is marked to be freed so that no
   new references are added to it.

 - Wake up hist poll readers when an event is being freed

   When polling on a hist file, the task is only awoken when a hist
   trigger is triggered. This means that if an event is being freed
   while there's a task waiting on its hist file, it will need to wait
   until the hist trigger occurs to wake it up and allow the freeing to
   happen. Note, the event will not be completely freed until all
   references are removed, and a hist poller keeps a reference. But it
   should still be woken when the event is being freed.

* tag 'trace-v7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: Wake up poll waiters for hist files when removing an event
  tracing: Fix checking of freed trace_event_file for hist files
  fgraph: Do not call handlers direct when not using ftrace_ops
  tracing: ring-buffer: Fix to check event length before using
  ring-buffer: Fix possible dereference of uninitialized pointer
2026-02-20 15:05:26 -08:00
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bpf bpf: Add a map/btf from a fd array more consistently 2026-02-13 14:37:02 -08:00
cgroup mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable 2026-02-18 20:50:32 -08:00
configs watchdog: softlockup: panic when lockup duration exceeds N thresholds 2026-01-20 19:44:20 -08:00
debug SPDX updates for 7.0-rc1 2026-02-17 09:46:03 -08:00
dma dma-mapping update for Linux 7.0 2026-02-13 14:51:39 -08:00
entry Merge branch 'core/entry' into sched/core 2026-01-30 15:40:05 +01:00
events Performance events changes for v7.0: 2026-02-10 12:00:46 -08:00
futex Futex changes for v6.19: 2025-12-10 17:21:30 +09:00
gcov gcov: add support for GCC 15 2025-11-09 21:19:44 -08:00
irq pci-v7.0-changes 2026-02-11 17:20:38 -08:00
kcsan mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-02-12 12:13:01 -08:00
livepatch livepatch: Fix having __klp_objects relics in non-livepatch modules 2026-02-05 08:00:44 -08:00
liveupdate mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-02-18 21:40:16 -08:00
locking test-ww_mutex: Allow test to be run (and re-run) from userland 2025-12-18 10:45:23 +01:00
module mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-02-12 12:13:01 -08:00
power mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable 2026-02-12 11:32:37 -08:00
printk Summary 2026-02-18 10:45:36 -08:00
rcu tracing updates for 7.0: 2026-02-13 19:25:16 -08:00
sched mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-02-12 12:13:01 -08:00
time Summary 2026-02-18 10:45:36 -08:00
trace Tracing fixes for 7.0: 2026-02-20 15:05:26 -08:00
unwind unwind_user/fp: Use dummies instead of ifdef 2025-12-17 13:31:07 +01:00
.gitignore kheaders: rebuild kheaders_data.tar.xz when a file is modified within a minute 2025-06-24 20:30:37 +09:00
acct.c simplify the callers of file_open_name() 2026-01-13 15:18:08 -05:00
async.c
audit.c mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-02-12 12:13:01 -08:00
audit.h audit: fix comment misindentation in audit.h 2025-10-22 19:28:06 -04:00
audit_fsnotify.c VFS/audit: introduce kern_path_parent() for audit 2025-09-23 12:37:35 +02:00
audit_tree.c mount-related stuff for this cycle 2025-10-03 10:19:44 -07:00
audit_watch.c VFS/audit: introduce kern_path_parent() for audit 2025-09-23 12:37:35 +02:00
auditfilter.c audit: Use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc()/memset() in audit_krule_to_data() 2025-11-07 16:38:34 -05:00
auditsc.c struct filename ->refcnt doesn't need to be atomic 2026-01-13 15:18:07 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c x86/asm: Remove ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL usage 2025-12-03 16:53:19 +01:00
capability.c capability: Remove unused has_capability 2025-03-07 22:03:09 -06:00
cfi.c cfi: Move BPF CFI types and helpers to generic code 2025-07-31 18:23:53 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Remove rcu_task_trace_heavyweight_{enter,exit}() 2026-01-01 16:39:46 +08:00
cpu.c SPDX updates for 7.0-rc1 2026-02-17 09:46:03 -08:00
cpu_pm.c syscore: Pass context data to callbacks 2025-11-14 10:01:52 +01:00
crash_core.c kernel/crash: handle multi-page vmcoreinfo in crash kernel copy 2026-01-20 19:44:20 -08:00
crash_core_test.c crash: add KUnit tests for crash_exclude_mem_range 2025-09-13 17:32:55 -07:00
crash_dump_dm_crypt.c crash_dump: fix dm_crypt keys locking and ref leak 2026-01-31 16:16:08 -08:00
crash_reserve.c crash: let architecture decide crash memory export to iomem_resource 2025-11-12 10:00:15 -08:00
cred.c cred: remove unused set_security_override_from_ctx() 2026-01-06 20:52:57 -05:00
delayacct.c delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition 2026-02-08 00:13:32 -08:00
dma.c
elfcorehdr.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-12-06 14:01:20 -08:00
exit.h
extable.c
fail_function.c
fork.c mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-02-12 12:13:01 -08:00
freezer.c freezer: Clarify that only cgroup1 freezer uses PM freezer 2025-10-30 20:10:27 +01:00
gen_kheaders.sh kheaders: make it possible to override TAR 2025-08-06 10:23:36 +09:00
groups.c
hung_task.c hung_task: add hung_task_sys_info sysctl to dump sys info on task-hung 2025-11-20 14:03:43 -08:00
iomem.c mm/memremap: Pass down MEMREMAP_* flags to arch_memremap_wb() 2025-02-21 15:05:38 +01:00
irq_work.c kasan: make kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() the default behaviour 2025-01-13 22:40:36 -08:00
jump_label.c jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address(). 2025-03-10 11:54:46 +01:00
kallsyms.c mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-02-12 12:13:01 -08:00
kallsyms_internal.h kallsyms: Get rid of kallsyms relative base 2026-01-22 15:58:22 -07:00
kallsyms_selftest.c kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() 2025-09-28 11:36:14 -07:00
kallsyms_selftest.h
kcmp.c kcmp: improve performance adding an unlikely hint to task comparisons 2025-02-21 10:25:33 +01:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz kernel: Fix "select" wording on HZ_250 description 2025-02-21 09:20:30 +01:00
Kconfig.kexec liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt sched: Further restrict the preemption modes 2026-01-08 12:43:57 +01:00
kcov.c kcov: Use scoped init guard 2026-01-28 20:45:24 +01:00
kexec.c kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation 2025-08-02 12:01:38 -07:00
kexec_core.c kernel/kexec: fix IMA when allocation happens in CMA area 2025-12-23 11:23:14 -08:00
kexec_elf.c kexec: initialize ELF lowest address to ULONG_MAX 2025-03-16 22:30:47 -07:00
kexec_file.c kexec: derive purgatory entry from symbol 2026-01-31 16:16:07 -08:00
kexec_internal.h kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation 2025-08-02 12:01:38 -07:00
kheaders.c
kprobes.c kprobes: Use dedicated kthread for kprobe optimizer 2026-01-30 11:49:38 +09:00
kstack_erase.c sysctl: remove __user qualifier from stack_erasing_sysctl buffer argument 2025-11-27 15:44:53 +01:00
ksyms_common.c
ksysfs.c kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec 2025-11-27 14:24:42 -08:00
kthread.c The kthread code provides an infrastructure which manages the preferred 2026-02-09 19:57:30 -08:00
latencytop.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
Makefile kcov: Enable context analysis 2026-01-05 16:43:34 +01:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c
nscommon.c ns: rename is_initial_namespace() 2025-11-11 10:01:31 +01:00
nsproxy.c nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces() 2025-11-14 13:10:38 +01:00
nstree.c nstree: fix kernel-doc comments for internal functions 2025-11-14 13:10:38 +01:00
padata.c padata: Constify padata_sysfs_entry structs 2026-01-23 13:48:44 +08:00
panic.c panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU 2026-02-03 08:21:26 -08:00
params.c params: Replace __modinit with __init_or_module 2025-12-22 16:35:53 +00:00
pid.c Revert "pid: make __task_pid_nr_ns(ns => NULL) safe for zombie callers" 2026-02-10 11:39:30 +01:00
pid_namespace.c pid: rely on common reference count behavior 2025-11-11 10:01:32 +01:00
pid_sysctl.h treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
profile.c
ptrace.c rseq: Introduce struct rseq_data 2025-11-04 08:30:50 +01:00
range.c
reboot.c - The 7 patch series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel 2025-04-01 10:06:52 -07:00
regset.c
relay.c mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable 2026-02-18 20:50:32 -08:00
resource.c cxl changes for v7.0 2026-02-12 16:33:05 -08:00
resource_kunit.c
rseq.c rseq: Lower default slice extension 2026-01-22 11:11:20 +01:00
scftorture.c
scs.c scs: fix a wrong parameter in __scs_magic 2025-11-12 10:00:13 -08:00
seccomp.c Performance events updates for v6.18: 2025-09-30 11:11:21 -07:00
signal.c compiler-context-analysis: Remove __cond_lock() function-like helper 2026-01-05 16:43:33 +01:00
smp.c smp: Introduce a helper function to check for pending IPIs 2025-11-19 18:06:50 +01:00
smpboot.c sched/smp: Use the SMP version of idle_thread_set_boot_cpu() 2025-06-13 08:47:20 +02:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c softirq: Allow to drop the softirq-BKL lock on PREEMPT_RT 2025-09-17 16:25:41 +02:00
stacktrace.c
static_call.c
static_call_inline.c Modules changes for 6.15-rc1 2025-03-30 15:44:36 -07:00
stop_machine.c sched/core: Fix migrate_swap() vs. hotplug 2025-07-01 15:02:03 +02:00
sys.c RISC-V updates for v7.0 2026-02-12 19:17:44 -08:00
sys_ni.c rseq: Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield() 2026-01-22 11:11:17 +01:00
sysctl-test.c sysctl: move u8 register test to lib/test_sysctl.c 2025-04-14 14:13:41 +02:00
sysctl.c sysctl: replace SYSCTL_INT_CONV_CUSTOM macro with functions 2026-01-06 11:27:10 +01:00
task_work.c task_work: Fix NMI race condition 2025-10-29 10:29:54 +01:00
taskstats.c
torture.c torture: Delay CPU-hotplug operations until boot completes 2025-08-14 15:26:30 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracing: Guard __DECLARE_TRACE() use of __DO_TRACE_CALL() with SRCU-fast 2026-01-30 10:44:11 -05:00
tsacct.c tsacct: skip all kernel threads 2026-01-26 19:07:13 -08:00
ucount.c ucount: check for CAP_SYS_RESOURCE using ns_capable_noaudit() 2026-01-31 16:16:08 -08:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c ns: drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces 2025-11-11 10:01:32 +01:00
user_namespace.c ns: move ns type into struct ns_common 2025-09-25 09:23:54 +02:00
utsname.c namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
vhost_task.c vhost: Take a reference on the task in struct vhost_task. 2025-09-21 17:44:20 -04:00
vmcore_info.c mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-02-12 12:13:01 -08:00
watch_queue.c watch_queue: Use local kmap in post_one_notification() 2025-11-19 12:17:28 +01:00
watchdog.c watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() 2026-02-08 00:13:34 -08:00
watchdog_buddy.c watchdog: fix opencoded cpumask_next_wrap() in watchdog_next_cpu() 2025-07-31 11:28:03 -04:00
watchdog_perf.c watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency 2026-02-08 00:13:35 -08:00
workqueue.c workqueue: Changes for v6.20 2026-02-11 13:13:32 -08:00
workqueue_internal.h