Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-tracegrafted

Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Fix error output of boot instance creation failure

   Currently if a boot instance creation fails, instead of printing out
   the name of the instance that failed, it prints "(null)". That is
   because it prints "cur_str" that had already been processed by
   strsep(). Print the saved name instead.

   While at it, print the error code of the failure.

 - Fix use-after-free for same named historgrams

   Histograms can be named so that they can be used in multiple events.
   But if the named histogram has a variable attached, the second event
   that uses the named histogram which duplicates it and needs to free
   the original after duplication leaves the old variable in place and
   still visible. If another histogram uses than variable, it will use
   the stale one which will try to reference the freed duplicate
   histogram and crash the kernel.

   Free the duplicate variables along with the duplicated histogram
   data.

 - Check return value of kthread_run() in event self test

   The events self tests uses a kthread for testing but does not check
   if it succeeded in creating a kthread. If the kthread creation were
   to fail, the code will still try to call kthread_stop() on the error
   returned.

 - Fix race between reading trace_pipe and updating subbuffer size

   If a user is reading the trace_pipe file at the same time they update
   the ring buffer sub-buffer size, can cause the trace_pipe read to
   read stale data. Add trace_access_lock() around updating the ring
   buffer sub-buffer size.

 - Fix eventfs_inode on failure path in creation of the events directory

   In the creation of the "events" directory, if after allocating the
   eventfs_inode a failure is detected, it calls cleanup_ei() which
   calls free_ei(). The free_ei() will test if eventfs_inode being freed
   has no children. It is a bug if it does. But on the failure case of
   the creation of the "events" directory, the children lists have not
   yet been initialized and the free will trigger a warning because
   list_empty() on an uninitialized list returns false.

   Move the initialization into init_ei() where it makes more sense and
   makes sure that a created eventfs_inode has its lists initialized
   upon creation.

 - Check return value of kthread_run() in ftrace direct sample code

   The sample code that shows how to use the ftrace direct calls does
   not test the return of kthread_run() to see if it succeeds. Return a
   failure if the kthread_run() doesn't succeed.

 - Clear user events state on fork in case of alloc failure

   On fork, the child gets a pointer to the parent's user events state.
   It makes a copy of it then updates the child's pointer to it. But if
   the allocation fails, the duplication function leaves the child with
   a pointer to its parent's descriptor. When the child cleans up its
   data, it will free the parent's descriptor while the parent is still
   using it.

   In the duplication function, set the child's user_event_mm to NULL
   before testing if the allocation succeeded, and when it exits it will
   not free the parent's descriptor.

 - Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap

   simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page() starts with retry set to 8 and
   post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final
   attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a
   failed replacement leaves it at -1.

   But the check for success expects the retry value to be non-zero and
   exits with an error on zero. This is the opposite result. Fix it.

 - Fail nicely when the remote swap_reader_page() returns an error

   Currently, if the swap_reader_page() of a remote buffer fails, it
   triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() and continues normally. Instead, have it
   exit with an error and a pr_warn() print instead of a full WARNING.

* tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Stop remote reader update when page swap fails
  tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap
  tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication
  samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-multi-modify
  samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-modify
  eventfs: Initialize ei->children and ei->list in init_ei()
  tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change
  tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()
  tracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers
  tracing: Fix logged instance name on creation failure

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diff --git a/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst b/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst
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+==================================
+Kernel Lock Torture Test Operation
+==================================
+
+CONFIG_LOCK_TORTURE_TEST
+========================
+
+The CONFIG_LOCK_TORTURE_TEST config option provides a kernel module
+that runs torture tests on core kernel locking primitives. The kernel
+module, 'locktorture', may be built after the fact on the running
+kernel to be tested, if desired. The tests periodically output status
+messages via printk(), which can be examined via the dmesg (perhaps
+grepping for "torture").  The test is started when the module is loaded,
+and stops when the module is unloaded. This program is based on how RCU
+is tortured, via rcutorture.
+
+This torture test consists of creating a number of kernel threads which
+acquire the lock and hold it for specific amount of time, thus simulating
+different critical region behaviors. The amount of contention on the lock
+can be simulated by either enlarging this critical region hold time and/or
+creating more kthreads.
+
+
+Module Parameters
+=================
+
+This module has the following parameters:
+
+
+Locktorture-specific
+--------------------
+
+nwriters_stress
+		  Number of kernel threads that will stress exclusive lock
+		  ownership (writers). The default value is twice the number
+		  of online CPUs.
+
+nreaders_stress
+		  Number of kernel threads that will stress shared lock
+		  ownership (readers). The default is the same amount of writer
+		  locks. If the user did not specify nwriters_stress, then
+		  both readers and writers be the amount of online CPUs.
+
+torture_type
+		  Type of lock to torture. By default, only spinlocks will
+		  be tortured. This module can torture the following locks,
+		  with string values as follows:
+
+		     - "lock_busted":
+				Simulates a buggy lock implementation.
+
+		     - "spin_lock":
+				spin_lock() and spin_unlock() pairs.
+
+		     - "spin_lock_irq":
+				spin_lock_irq() and spin_unlock_irq() pairs.
+
+		     - "rw_lock":
+				read/write lock() and unlock() rwlock pairs.
+
+		     - "rw_lock_irq":
+				read/write lock_irq() and unlock_irq()
+				rwlock pairs.
+
+		     - "mutex_lock":
+				mutex_lock() and mutex_unlock() pairs.
+
+		     - "rtmutex_lock":
+				rtmutex_lock() and rtmutex_unlock() pairs.
+				Kernel must have CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y.
+
+		     - "rwsem_lock":
+				read/write down() and up() semaphore pairs.
+
+
+Torture-framework (RCU + locking)
+---------------------------------
+
+shutdown_secs
+		  The number of seconds to run the test before terminating
+		  the test and powering off the system.  The default is
+		  zero, which disables test termination and system shutdown.
+		  This capability is useful for automated testing.
+
+onoff_interval
+		  The number of seconds between each attempt to execute a
+		  randomly selected CPU-hotplug operation.  Defaults
+		  to zero, which disables CPU hotplugging.  In
+		  CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n kernels, locktorture will silently
+		  refuse to do any CPU-hotplug operations regardless of
+		  what value is specified for onoff_interval.
+
+onoff_holdoff
+		  The number of seconds to wait until starting CPU-hotplug
+		  operations.  This would normally only be used when
+		  locktorture was built into the kernel and started
+		  automatically at boot time, in which case it is useful
+		  in order to avoid confusing boot-time code with CPUs
+		  coming and going. This parameter is only useful if
+		  CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is enabled.
+
+stat_interval
+		  Number of seconds between statistics-related printk()s.
+		  By default, locktorture will report stats every 60 seconds.
+		  Setting the interval to zero causes the statistics to
+		  be printed -only- when the module is unloaded.
+
+stutter
+		  The length of time to run the test before pausing for this
+		  same period of time.  Defaults to "stutter=5", so as
+		  to run and pause for (roughly) five-second intervals.
+		  Specifying "stutter=0" causes the test to run continuously
+		  without pausing.
+
+shuffle_interval
+		  The number of seconds to keep the test threads affinitized
+		  to a particular subset of the CPUs, defaults to 3 seconds.
+		  Used in conjunction with test_no_idle_hz.
+
+verbose
+		  Enable verbose debugging printing, via printk(). Enabled
+		  by default. This extra information is mostly related to
+		  high-level errors and reports from the main 'torture'
+		  framework.
+
+
+Statistics
+==========
+
+Statistics are printed in the following format::
+
+  spin_lock-torture: Writes:  Total: 93746064  Max/Min: 0/0   Fail: 0
+     (A)		    (B)		   (C)		  (D)	       (E)
+
+  (A): Lock type that is being tortured -- torture_type parameter.
+
+  (B): Number of writer lock acquisitions. If dealing with a read/write
+       primitive a second "Reads" statistics line is printed.
+
+  (C): Number of times the lock was acquired.
+
+  (D): Min and max number of times threads failed to acquire the lock.
+
+  (E): true/false values if there were errors acquiring the lock. This should
+       -only- be positive if there is a bug in the locking primitive's
+       implementation. Otherwise a lock should never fail (i.e., spin_lock()).
+       Of course, the same applies for (C), above. A dummy example of this is
+       the "lock_busted" type.
+
+Usage
+=====
+
+The following script may be used to torture locks::
+
+	#!/bin/sh
+
+	modprobe locktorture
+	sleep 3600
+	rmmod locktorture
+	dmesg | grep torture:
+
+The output can be manually inspected for the error flag of "!!!".
+One could of course create a more elaborate script that automatically
+checked for such errors.  The "rmmod" command forces a "SUCCESS",
+"FAILURE", or "RCU_HOTPLUG" indication to be printk()ed.  The first
+two are self-explanatory, while the last indicates that while there
+were no locking failures, CPU-hotplug problems were detected.
+
+Also see: Documentation/RCU/torture.rst