- Fix rtla and latency tooling pkg-config errors
If libtraceevent and libtracefs is installed, but their corresponding '.pc'
files are not installed, it reports that the libraries are missing and
confuses the developer. Instead, report that the pkg-config files are
missing and should be installed.
- Fix overflow bug of the parser in trace_get_user()
trace_get_user() uses the parsing functions to parse the user space strings.
If the parser fails due to incorrect processing, it doesn't terminate the
buffer with a nul byte. Add a "failed" flag to the parser that gets set when
parsing fails and is used to know if the buffer is fine to use or not.
- Remove a semicolon that was at an end of a comment line
- Fix register_ftrace_graph() to unregister the pm notifier on error
The register_ftrace_graph() registers a pm notifier but there's an error
path that can exit the function without unregistering it. Since the function
returns an error, it will never be unregistered.
- Allocate and copy ftrace hash for reader of ftrace filter files
When the set_ftrace_filter or set_ftrace_notrace files are open for read,
an iterator is created and sets its hash pointer to the associated hash that
represents filtering or notrace filtering to it. The issue is that the hash
it points to can change while the iteration is happening. All the locking
used to access the tracer's hashes are released which means those hashes can
change or even be freed. Using the hash pointed to by the iterator can cause
UAF bugs or similar.
Have the read of these files allocate and copy the corresponding hashes and
use that as that will keep them the same while the iterator is open. This
also simplifies the code as opening it for write already does an allocate
and copy, and now that the read is doing the same, there's no need to check
which way it was opened on the release of the file, and the iterator hash
can always be freed.
- Fix function graph to copy args into temp storage
The output of the function graph tracer shows both the entry and the exit of
a function. When the exit is right after the entry, it combines the two
events into one with the output of "function();", instead of showing:
function() {
}
In order to do this, the iterator descriptor that reads the events includes
storage that saves the entry event while it peaks at the next event in
the ring buffer. The peek can free the entry event so the iterator must
store the information to use it after the peek.
With the addition of function graph tracer recording the args, where the
args are a dynamic array in the entry event, the temp storage does not save
them. This causes the args to be corrupted or even cause a read of unsafe
memory.
Add space to save the args in the temp storage of the iterator.
- Fix race between ftrace_dump and reading trace_pipe
ftrace_dump() is used when a crash occurs where the ftrace buffer will be
printed to the console. But it can also be triggered by sysrq-z. If a
sysrq-z is triggered while a task is reading trace_pipe it can cause a race
in the ftrace_dump() where it checks if the buffer has content, then it
checks if the next event is available, and then prints the output
(regardless if the next event was available or not). Reading trace_pipe
at the same time can cause it to not be available, and this triggers a
WARN_ON in the print. Move the printing into the check if the next event
exists or not.
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.17-rc2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix rtla and latency tooling pkg-config errors
If libtraceevent and libtracefs is installed, but their corresponding
'.pc' files are not installed, it reports that the libraries are
missing and confuses the developer. Instead, report that the
pkg-config files are missing and should be installed.
- Fix overflow bug of the parser in trace_get_user()
trace_get_user() uses the parsing functions to parse the user space
strings. If the parser fails due to incorrect processing, it doesn't
terminate the buffer with a nul byte. Add a "failed" flag to the
parser that gets set when parsing fails and is used to know if the
buffer is fine to use or not.
- Remove a semicolon that was at an end of a comment line
- Fix register_ftrace_graph() to unregister the pm notifier on error
The register_ftrace_graph() registers a pm notifier but there's an
error path that can exit the function without unregistering it. Since
the function returns an error, it will never be unregistered.
- Allocate and copy ftrace hash for reader of ftrace filter files
When the set_ftrace_filter or set_ftrace_notrace files are open for
read, an iterator is created and sets its hash pointer to the
associated hash that represents filtering or notrace filtering to it.
The issue is that the hash it points to can change while the
iteration is happening. All the locking used to access the tracer's
hashes are released which means those hashes can change or even be
freed. Using the hash pointed to by the iterator can cause UAF bugs
or similar.
Have the read of these files allocate and copy the corresponding
hashes and use that as that will keep them the same while the
iterator is open. This also simplifies the code as opening it for
write already does an allocate and copy, and now that the read is
doing the same, there's no need to check which way it was opened on
the release of the file, and the iterator hash can always be freed.
- Fix function graph to copy args into temp storage
The output of the function graph tracer shows both the entry and the
exit of a function. When the exit is right after the entry, it
combines the two events into one with the output of "function();",
instead of showing:
function() {
}
In order to do this, the iterator descriptor that reads the events
includes storage that saves the entry event while it peaks at the
next event in the ring buffer. The peek can free the entry event so
the iterator must store the information to use it after the peek.
With the addition of function graph tracer recording the args, where
the args are a dynamic array in the entry event, the temp storage
does not save them. This causes the args to be corrupted or even
cause a read of unsafe memory.
Add space to save the args in the temp storage of the iterator.
- Fix race between ftrace_dump and reading trace_pipe
ftrace_dump() is used when a crash occurs where the ftrace buffer
will be printed to the console. But it can also be triggered by
sysrq-z. If a sysrq-z is triggered while a task is reading trace_pipe
it can cause a race in the ftrace_dump() where it checks if the
buffer has content, then it checks if the next event is available,
and then prints the output (regardless if the next event was
available or not). Reading trace_pipe at the same time can cause it
to not be available, and this triggers a WARN_ON in the print. Move
the printing into the check if the next event exists or not
* tag 'trace-v6.17-rc2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ftrace: Also allocate and copy hash for reading of filter files
ftrace: Fix potential warning in trace_printk_seq during ftrace_dump
fgraph: Copy args in intermediate storage with entry
trace/fgraph: Fix the warning caused by missing unregister notifier
ring-buffer: Remove redundant semicolons
tracing: Limit access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failed
rtla: Check pkg-config install
tools/latency-collector: Check pkg-config install
Currently the reader of set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace just adds
the pointer to the global tracer hash to its iterator. Unlike the writer
that allocates a copy of the hash, the reader keeps the pointer to the
filter hashes. This is problematic because this pointer is static across
function calls that release the locks that can update the global tracer
hashes. This can cause UAF and similar bugs.
Allocate and copy the hash for reading the filter files like it is done
for the writers. This not only fixes UAF bugs, but also makes the code a
bit simpler as it doesn't have to differentiate when to free the
iterator's hash between writers and readers.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250822183606.12962cc3@batman.local.home
Fixes: c20489dad1 ("ftrace: Assign iter->hash to filter or notrace hashes on seq read")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250813023044.2121943-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250822192437.GA458494@ax162/
Reported-by: Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com>
Tested-by: Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When calling ftrace_dump_one() concurrently with reading trace_pipe,
a WARN_ON_ONCE() in trace_printk_seq() can be triggered due to a race
condition.
The issue occurs because:
CPU0 (ftrace_dump) CPU1 (reader)
echo z > /proc/sysrq-trigger
!trace_empty(&iter)
trace_iterator_reset(&iter) <- len = size = 0
cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
trace_find_next_entry_inc(&iter)
__find_next_entry
ring_buffer_empty_cpu <- all empty
return NULL
trace_printk_seq(&iter.seq)
WARN_ON_ONCE(s->seq.len >= s->seq.size)
In the context between trace_empty() and trace_find_next_entry_inc()
during ftrace_dump, the ring buffer data was consumed by other readers.
This caused trace_find_next_entry_inc to return NULL, failing to populate
`iter.seq`. At this point, due to the prior trace_iterator_reset, both
`iter.seq.len` and `iter.seq.size` were set to 0. Since they are equal,
the WARN_ON_ONCE condition is triggered.
Move the trace_printk_seq() into the if block that checks to make sure the
return value of trace_find_next_entry_inc() is non-NULL in
ftrace_dump_one(), ensuring the 'iter.seq' is properly populated before
subsequent operations.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250822033343.3000289-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: d769041f86 ("ring_buffer: implement new locking")
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The output of the function graph tracer has two ways to display its
entries. One way for leaf functions with no events recorded within them,
and the other is for functions with events recorded inside it. As function
graph has an entry and exit event, to simplify the output of leaf
functions it combines the two, where as non leaf functions are separate:
2) | invoke_rcu_core() {
2) | raise_softirq() {
2) 0.391 us | __raise_softirq_irqoff();
2) 1.191 us | }
2) 2.086 us | }
The __raise_softirq_irqoff() function above is really two events that were
merged into one. Otherwise it would have looked like:
2) | invoke_rcu_core() {
2) | raise_softirq() {
2) | __raise_softirq_irqoff() {
2) 0.391 us | }
2) 1.191 us | }
2) 2.086 us | }
In order to do this merge, the reading of the trace output file needs to
look at the next event before printing. But since the pointer to the event
is on the ring buffer, it needs to save the entry event before it looks at
the next event as the next event goes out of focus as soon as a new event
is read from the ring buffer. After it reads the next event, it will print
the entry event with either the '{' (non leaf) or ';' and timestamps (leaf).
The iterator used to read the trace file has storage for this event. The
problem happens when the function graph tracer has arguments attached to
the entry event as the entry now has a variable length "args" field. This
field only gets set when funcargs option is used. But the args are not
recorded in this temp data and garbage could be printed. The entry field
is copied via:
data->ent = *curr;
Where "curr" is the entry field. But this method only saves the non
variable length fields from the structure.
Add a helper structure to the iterator data that adds the max args size to
the data storage in the iterator. Then simply copy the entire entry into
this storage (with size protection).
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250820195522.51d4a268@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aJaxRVKverIjF4a6@lappy/
Fixes: ff5c9c576e ("ftrace: Add support for function argument to graph tracer")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This warning was triggered during testing on v6.16:
notifier callback ftrace_suspend_notifier_call already registered
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 86 at kernel/notifier.c:23 notifier_chain_register+0x44/0xb0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
blocking_notifier_chain_register+0x34/0x60
register_ftrace_graph+0x330/0x410
ftrace_profile_write+0x1e9/0x340
vfs_write+0xf8/0x420
? filp_flush+0x8a/0xa0
? filp_close+0x1f/0x30
? do_dup2+0xaf/0x160
ksys_write+0x65/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
When writing to the function_profile_enabled interface, the notifier was
not unregistered after start_graph_tracing failed, causing a warning the
next time function_profile_enabled was written.
Fixed by adding unregister_pm_notifier in the exception path.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250818073332.3890629-1-yeweihua4@huawei.com
Fixes: 4a2b8dda3f ("tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix a regression while suspend to disk")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ye Weihua <yeweihua4@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the length of the string written to set_ftrace_filter exceeds
FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, the following KASAN alarm will be triggered:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in strsep+0x18c/0x1b0
Read of size 1 at addr ffff0000d00bd5ba by task ash/165
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 165 Comm: ash Not tainted 6.16.0-g6bcdbd62bd56-dirty
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
show_stack+0x34/0x50 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0xa0/0x158
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x88/0x398
print_report+0xb0/0x280
kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0
__asan_report_load1_noabort+0x20/0x30
strsep+0x18c/0x1b0
ftrace_process_regex.isra.0+0x100/0x2d8
ftrace_regex_release+0x484/0x618
__fput+0x364/0xa58
____fput+0x28/0x40
task_work_run+0x154/0x278
do_notify_resume+0x1f0/0x220
el0_svc+0xec/0xf0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
The reason is that trace_get_user will fail when processing a string
longer than FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, but not set the end of parser->buffer to 0.
Then an OOB access will be triggered in ftrace_regex_release->
ftrace_process_regex->strsep->strpbrk. We can solve this problem by
limiting access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failed.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250813040232.1344527-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 8c9af478c0 ("ftrace: Handle commands when closing set_ftrace_filter file")
Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui <pulehui@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tool pkg-config used to check libtraceevent and libtracefs, if not
installed, it will report the libs not found, even though they have
already been installed.
Before:
libtraceevent is missing. Please install libtraceevent-dev/libtraceevent-devel
libtracefs is missing. Please install libtracefs-dev/libtracefs-devel
After:
Makefile.config:10: *** Error: pkg-config needed by libtraceevent/libtracefs is missing
on this system, please install it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250808040527.2036023-2-chen.dylane@linux.dev
Fixes: 01474dc706 ("tools/rtla: Use tools/build makefiles to build rtla")
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tool pkg-config used to check libtraceevent and libtracefs, if not
installed, it will report the libs not found, even though they have
already been installed.
Before:
libtraceevent is missing. Please install libtraceevent-dev/libtraceevent-devel
libtracefs is missing. Please install libtracefs-dev/libtracefs-devel
After:
Makefile.config:10: *** Error: pkg-config needed by libtraceevent/libtracefs is missing
on this system, please install it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250808040527.2036023-1-chen.dylane@linux.dev
Fixes: 9d56c88e52 ("tools/tracing: Use tools/build makefiles on latency-collector")
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-08-19 20:32:54 -04:00
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