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Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-tracegrafted
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: - Don't destroy user event fields when removal fails User event fields are destroyed before the event is removed from visibility. But that can fail leaving the still visible event with no fields. Move the destroying of the fields to after the event is successfully removed from visibility. - Initialize function graph state is fork before calling copy_exec_state() For non-CLONE_VM forks, copy_exec_state() allocates a new task_exec_state. If that allocation fails, ftrace_graph_exit_task() will free the tasks ret_stack pointer. Since that pointer is still using the parent's ret_stack, it mistakenly frees the parent's pointer too. Call ftrace_graph_init() on the task first which will NULL out the new tasks's ret_stack and if the copy fails, it will not free anything. - Remove FGRAPH_MAX_INDEX The macro FGRAPH_MAX_INDEX was added but never used. Remove it. - Save ent_size in function graph printing of nested functions The function graph tracer needs to look at the next event to see if the next event is the return of the current function entry. If it is, it prints a single line: ktime_get(); Otherwise it prints it like a nested function: tick_nohz_irq_exit() { ktime_get(); kcpustat_irq_exit(); } In order to look at the next event, it must save the current event so that it has the information to print from it. It saves the event in the iterator descriptor called "ent". What it doesn't save is the ent_size of the event which is now used to know if the function graph arguments are to be printed. The peek doesn't save the size so the size used happens to be that of the size of the last event that was seen. Save the entry event size in the iterator descriptor so that the correct size is used. - Fix several errors with freeing data in the histogram code The histogram code had a lot of leaked or or incorrect accounting when failures happen. Correct them. - Fix histogram regression of .percent and .graph modifiers Up until 6.3 histogram values could have "percent" or "graph" modifiers that changed how they were printed. But a change that added restricting histograms values from being strings, stack traces and other modifiers inadvertently prevented them from using the percent and graph modifiers, which were legal use cases for values. Put back the percent and graph modifiers. - Fix various typos in the comments - Set the trace_clock before initializing a histogram with clock argument The histogram API allows the user to specific which trace clock to use via a "clock=" string. The histogram is set up first before the clock is checked. If the passed in clock is not valid, it exits without fully fixing up the histogram leaving it on the list and a use-after-free can trigger. Update the clock argument first and if it fails then exit gracefully before the histogram trigger is placed on any lists. - Restore :mod: trailer after parsing in ftrace_set_clr_event The function ftrace_set_clr_event() modifies the parse string and needs to put it back to what was passed in. It searches for ":mod:" via a strsep() but fails to put back the first ':' in the string. Add back the ':' in the passed in string. - Take trace_array reference when opening a tracer options file The options files are dynamically created and some tracers add their own options. When a tracer adds their own list of options, the trace_array holding them has an array to hold the list of options for each tracer. This array increases in size via a krealloc(), and the new entry gets a newly allocated array to hold the options of the new tracer being added. The element in each entry of the tracer's option array holds a pointer back to the trace_array, a pointer to the tracer it is associated to, a pointer to the flags of the option. The issue is that these arrays are freed when the trace_array is freed when its instance it represents is removed from the instances directory. There's a race that an open of one of these options files can happen when the instance is being removed. Add a new helper function to be called by the open function of the options file to iterate all existing trace_arrays under a lock and find the one that has the given option element in one of it's tracer arrays. If found, then update the associated trace_array's reference counter to keep it from being freed. If not found, have the open call return -ENODEV. - Disable interrupts when acquiring the lock in rb_wake_up_waiters() The function rb_wake_up_waiters() assumes it will be called in interrupt context and does not disable irqs when taking cpu_buffer->reader_lock, which can be called in hard interrupt context. The issue is in PREEMPT_RT, this function is called in thread context leaving this lock open to a deadlock. Take the lock with interrupts disabled. - Use rcu_assign_pointer() for tmp_ops filter hash The tmp_ops used in update_ftrace_direct_mod() assigns its filter_hash field directly, but that field is annotated as __rcu and sparse complains. Assign it with rcu_assign_pointer() - Fix use-after-free in enable_trigger_private_data_free() The trace_event_call is accessed through the event_trigger_data's trace_event_file pointer to put the trace_event_call on freeing. The issue is that the trace_event_file data may have been freed already causing a use-after-free. Add a field to the event_trigger_data that points directly to the trace_event_call so that it can decrement its reference directly without needing to go through the trace_event_file. - Fix accounting of buffer data remote headers trace_buffer_desc_size() and trace_remote_alloc_buffer() undercount the number of pages is needed for the asked for size as it doesn't take into account the meta data on each page. Add a helper function to do the calculation properly and use that in these functions. - Catch nr_page_va overflow in ring_buffer_desc sizing The number of pages per remote ring buffer is capped by ring_buffer_desc::nr_page_va (32 bits). A buffer_size large enough to overflow that field would silently allocate a descriptor smaller than what was asked for. - Do not resize the subbuf order if any per_cpu buffer is disabled The mmapping of ring buffers disables resizing the subbuffers, but it is done per-cpu whereas the subbuf size change is done for all the per_cpu buffers under the buffer->mutex. It could change the size of some while the mapping is happening on others. Have the resize of the subbuf order check all the per_cpu buffers under the lock to see if any of them is disabled before starting and causing an inconsistency between buffers that are being mapped. * tag 'trace-v7.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (25 commits) ring-buffer: Check resize_disabled before publishing the new subbuf order tracing/remotes: Catch nr_page_va overflow in ring_buffer_desc sizing tracing/remotes: Account for ring buffer page header in size calculation tracing: Don't dereference trace_event_file in deferred trigger free ftrace: Use rcu_assign_pointer() for tmp_ops filter hash ring-buffer: Acquire the lock with irqsave in rb_wake_up_waiters() tracing: Take trace_array reference when opening a tracer options file tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page_size() kernel-doc tracing: Restore :mod: trailer after parsing in ftrace_set_clr_event() tracing: Fix memory corruption from a "STACKTRACE" histogram key tracing: Fix memory corruption from the histogram stacktrace modifier tracing: Undo the registration when enabling the histogram trigger fails tracing: Take the reference before publishing the named histogram trigger tracing: Set the trace clock before registering the histogram trigger tracing: Fix typo "preceeded" in comment tracing: Fix typo "availabe" in comment tracing: Let histogram values keep the percent and graph modifiers tracing: Keep the entry count when the histogram stats allocation fails tracing: Free histogram the field rejected for a bad modifier tracing: Free histogram the var ref when its initialization fails ...
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===========
+IPvs-sysctl
+===========
+
+/proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/* Variables:
+==================================
+
+am_droprate - INTEGER
+ default 10
+
+ It sets the always mode drop rate, which is used in the mode 3
+ of the drop_rate defense.
+
+amemthresh - INTEGER
+ default 1024
+
+ It sets the available memory threshold (in pages), which is
+ used in the automatic modes of defense. When there is no
+ enough available memory, the respective strategy will be
+ enabled and the variable is automatically set to 2, otherwise
+ the strategy is disabled and the variable is set to 1.
+
+backup_only - BOOLEAN
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
+
+ If set, disable the director function while the server is
+ in backup mode to avoid packet loops for DR/TUN methods.
+
+conn_lfactor - INTEGER
+ Possible values: -8 (larger table) .. 8 (smaller table)
+
+ Default: -4
+
+ Controls the sizing of the connection hash table based on the
+ load factor (number of connections per table buckets):
+
+ 2^conn_lfactor = nodes / buckets
+
+ As result, the table grows if load increases and shrinks when
+ load decreases in the range of 2^8 - 2^conn_tab_bits (module
+ parameter).
+ The value is a shift count where negative values select
+ buckets = (connection hash nodes << -value) while positive
+ values select buckets = (connection hash nodes >> value). The
+ negative values reduce the collisions and reduce the time for
+ lookups but increase the table size. Positive values will
+ tolerate load above 100% when using smaller table is
+ preferred with the cost of more collisions. If using NAT
+ connections consider decreasing the value with one because
+ they add two nodes in the hash table.
+
+ Example:
+ -4: grow if load goes above 6% (buckets = nodes * 16)
+ 2: grow if load goes above 400% (buckets = nodes / 4)
+
+conn_max - INTEGER
+ Limit for number of connections, per netns.
+
+ Controls the soft and hard limit for number of connections.
+ Initially, the platform specific limit is assigned for init_net.
+ The value can be changed and later the soft limit propagated
+ to other networking namespaces.
+
+ Privileged admin can change both limits up to the value of the
+ platform limit while the unprivileged admin can change only the
+ soft limit up to the value of the hard limit.
+
+ For setups using conntrack=1 (CONFIG_IP_VS_NFCT for
+ Netfilter connection tracking) the connections can be
+ limited also by nf_conntrack_max.
+
+ Limits for init_net:
+
+ ======================= =============== =============
+ \ soft limit hard limit
+ ======================= =============== =============
+ create netns platform platform
+ priv admin 0 .. platform 0 .. platform
+ ======================= =============== =============
+
+ Limits for new netns:
+
+ ======================= =============== =============
+ \ soft limit hard limit
+ ======================= =============== =============
+ create netns init_net:soft init_net:soft
+ priv admin 0 .. platform 0 .. platform
+ unpriv admin 0 .. hard N/A
+ ======================= =============== =============
+
+ Limits per platform:
+
+ - 1,073,741,824 (2^30 for 64-bit)
+ - 16,777,216 (2^24 for 32-bit)
+
+ Possible values: 0 .. platform limit
+
+ Default: platform limit
+
+conn_reuse_mode - INTEGER
+ 1 - default
+
+ Controls how ipvs will deal with connections that are detected
+ port reuse. It is a bitmap, with the values being:
+
+ 0: disable any special handling on port reuse. The new
+ connection will be delivered to the same real server that was
+ servicing the previous connection.
+
+ bit 1: enable rescheduling of new connections when it is safe.
+ That is, whenever expire_nodest_conn and for TCP sockets, when
+ the connection is in TIME_WAIT state (which is only possible if
+ you use NAT mode).
+
+ bit 2: it is bit 1 plus, for TCP connections, when connections
+ are in FIN_WAIT state, as this is the last state seen by load
+ balancer in Direct Routing mode. This bit helps on adding new
+ real servers to a very busy cluster.
+
+conntrack - BOOLEAN
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
+
+ If set, maintain connection tracking entries for
+ connections handled by IPVS.
+
+ This should be enabled if connections handled by IPVS are to be
+ also handled by stateful firewall rules. That is, iptables rules
+ that make use of connection tracking. It is a performance
+ optimisation to disable this setting otherwise.
+
+ Connections handled by the IPVS FTP application module
+ will have connection tracking entries regardless of this setting.
+
+ Only available when IPVS is compiled with CONFIG_IP_VS_NFCT enabled.
+
+cache_bypass - BOOLEAN
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
+
+ If it is enabled, forward packets to the original destination
+ directly when no cache server is available and destination
+ address is not local (iph->daddr is RTN_UNICAST). It is mostly
+ used in transparent web cache cluster.
+
+debug_level - INTEGER
+ - 0 - transmission error messages (default)
+ - 1 - non-fatal error messages
+ - 2 - configuration
+ - 3 - destination trash
+ - 4 - drop entry
+ - 5 - service lookup
+ - 6 - scheduling
+ - 7 - connection new/expire, lookup and synchronization
+ - 8 - state transition
+ - 9 - binding destination, template checks and applications
+ - 10 - IPVS packet transmission
+ - 11 - IPVS packet handling (ip_vs_in/ip_vs_out)
+ - 12 or more - packet traversal
+
+ Only available when IPVS is compiled with CONFIG_IP_VS_DEBUG enabled.
+
+ Higher debugging levels include the messages for lower debugging
+ levels, so setting debug level 2, includes level 0, 1 and 2
+ messages. Thus, logging becomes more and more verbose the higher
+ the level.
+
+drop_entry - INTEGER
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+
+ The drop_entry defense is to randomly drop entries in the
+ connection hash table, just in order to collect back some
+ memory for new connections. In the current code, the
+ drop_entry procedure can be activated every second, then it
+ randomly scans 1/32 of the whole and drops entries that are in
+ the SYN-RECV/SYNACK state, which should be effective against
+ syn-flooding attack.
+
+ The valid values of drop_entry are from 0 to 3, where 0 means
+ that this strategy is always disabled, 1 and 2 mean automatic
+ modes (when there is no enough available memory, the strategy
+ is enabled and the variable is automatically set to 2,
+ otherwise the strategy is disabled and the variable is set to
+ 1), and 3 means that the strategy is always enabled.
+
+drop_packet - INTEGER
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+
+ The drop_packet defense is designed to drop 1/rate packets
+ before forwarding them to real servers. If the rate is 1, then
+ drop all the incoming packets.
+
+ The value definition is the same as that of the drop_entry. In
+ the automatic mode, the rate is determined by the follow
+ formula: rate = amemthresh / (amemthresh - available_memory)
+ when available memory is less than the available memory
+ threshold. When the mode 3 is set, the always mode drop rate
+ is controlled by the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/am_droprate.
+
+est_cpulist - CPULIST
+ Allowed CPUs for estimation kthreads
+
+ Syntax: standard cpulist format
+ empty list - stop kthread tasks and estimation
+ default - the system's housekeeping CPUs for kthreads
+
+ Example:
+ "all": all possible CPUs
+ "0-N": all possible CPUs, N denotes last CPU number
+ "0,1-N:1/2": first and all CPUs with odd number
+ "": empty list
+
+est_nice - INTEGER
+ default 0
+ Valid range: -20 (more favorable) .. 19 (less favorable)
+
+ Niceness value to use for the estimation kthreads (scheduling
+ priority)
+
+expire_nodest_conn - BOOLEAN
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
+
+ The default value is 0, the load balancer will silently drop
+ packets when its destination server is not available. It may
+ be useful, when user-space monitoring program deletes the
+ destination server (because of server overload or wrong
+ detection) and add back the server later, and the connections
+ to the server can continue.
+
+ If this feature is enabled, the load balancer will expire the
+ connection immediately when a packet arrives and its
+ destination server is not available, then the client program
+ will be notified that the connection is closed. This is
+ equivalent to the feature some people requires to flush
+ connections when its destination is not available.
+
+expire_quiescent_template - BOOLEAN
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
+
+ When set to a non-zero value, the load balancer will expire
+ persistent templates when the destination server is quiescent.
+ This may be useful, when a user makes a destination server
+ quiescent by setting its weight to 0 and it is desired that
+ subsequent otherwise persistent connections are sent to a
+ different destination server. By default new persistent
+ connections are allowed to quiescent destination servers.
+
+ If this feature is enabled, the load balancer will expire the
+ persistence template if it is to be used to schedule a new
+ connection and the destination server is quiescent.
+
+ignore_tunneled - BOOLEAN
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
+
+ If set, ipvs will set the ipvs_property on all packets which are of
+ unrecognized protocols. This prevents us from routing tunneled
+ protocols like ipip, which is useful to prevent rescheduling
+ packets that have been tunneled to the ipvs host (i.e. to prevent
+ ipvs routing loops when ipvs is also acting as a real server).
+
+nat_icmp_send - BOOLEAN
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
+
+ It controls sending icmp error messages (ICMP_DEST_UNREACH)
+ for VS/NAT when the load balancer receives packets from real
+ servers but the connection entries don't exist.
+
+pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
+ - 0 - disabled
+ - not 0 - enabled (default)
+
+ By default, reject with FRAG_NEEDED all DF packets that exceed
+ the PMTU, irrespective of the forwarding method. For TUN method
+ the flag can be disabled to fragment such packets.
+
+secure_tcp - INTEGER
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+
+ The secure_tcp defense is to use a more complicated TCP state
+ transition table. For VS/NAT, it also delays entering the
+ TCP ESTABLISHED state until the three way handshake is completed.
+
+ The value definition is the same as that of drop_entry and
+ drop_packet.
+
+svc_lfactor - INTEGER
+ Possible values: -8 (larger table) .. 8 (smaller table)
+
+ Default: -3
+
+ Controls the sizing of the service hash table based on the
+ load factor (number of services per table buckets). The table
+ will grow and shrink in the range of 2^4 - 2^20.
+ See conn_lfactor for explanation.
+
+sync_threshold - vector of 2 INTEGERs: sync_threshold, sync_period
+ default 3 50
+
+ It sets synchronization threshold, which is the minimum number
+ of incoming packets that a connection needs to receive before
+ the connection will be synchronized. A connection will be
+ synchronized, every time the number of its incoming packets
+ modulus sync_period equals the threshold. The range of the
+ threshold is from 0 to sync_period.
+
+ When sync_period and sync_refresh_period are 0, send sync only
+ for state changes or only once when pkts matches sync_threshold
+
+sync_refresh_period - UNSIGNED INTEGER
+ default 0
+
+ In seconds, difference in reported connection timer that triggers
+ new sync message. It can be used to avoid sync messages for the
+ specified period (or half of the connection timeout if it is lower)
+ if connection state is not changed since last sync.
+
+ This is useful for normal connections with high traffic to reduce
+ sync rate. Additionally, retry sync_retries times with period of
+ sync_refresh_period/8.
+
+sync_retries - INTEGER
+ default 0
+
+ Defines sync retries with period of sync_refresh_period/8. Useful
+ to protect against loss of sync messages. The range of the
+ sync_retries is from 0 to 3.
+
+sync_qlen_max - UNSIGNED LONG
+
+ Hard limit for queued sync messages that are not sent yet. It
+ defaults to 1/32 of the memory pages but actually represents
+ number of messages. It will protect us from allocating large
+ parts of memory when the sending rate is lower than the queuing
+ rate.
+
+sync_sock_size - INTEGER
+ default 0
+
+ Configuration of SNDBUF (master) or RCVBUF (slave) socket limit.
+ Default value is 0 (preserve system defaults).
+
+sync_ports - INTEGER
+ default 1
+
+ The number of threads that master and backup servers can use for
+ sync traffic. Every thread will use single UDP port, thread 0 will
+ use the default port 8848 while last thread will use port
+ 8848+sync_ports-1.
+
+snat_reroute - BOOLEAN
+ - 0 - disabled
+ - not 0 - enabled (default)
+
+ If enabled, recalculate the route of SNATed packets from
+ realservers so that they are routed as if they originate from the
+ director. Otherwise they are routed as if they are forwarded by the
+ director.
+
+ If policy routing is in effect then it is possible that the route
+ of a packet originating from a director is routed differently to a
+ packet being forwarded by the director.
+
+ If policy routing is not in effect then the recalculated route will
+ always be the same as the original route so it is an optimisation
+ to disable snat_reroute and avoid the recalculation.
+
+sync_persist_mode - INTEGER
+ default 0
+
+ Controls the synchronisation of connections when using persistence
+
+ 0: All types of connections are synchronised
+
+ 1: Attempt to reduce the synchronisation traffic depending on
+ the connection type. For persistent services avoid synchronisation
+ for normal connections, do it only for persistence templates.
+ In such case, for TCP and SCTP it may need enabling sloppy_tcp and
+ sloppy_sctp flags on backup servers. For non-persistent services
+ such optimization is not applied, mode 0 is assumed.
+
+sync_version - INTEGER
+ default 1
+
+ The version of the synchronisation protocol used when sending
+ synchronisation messages.
+
+ 0 selects the original synchronisation protocol (version 0). This
+ should be used when sending synchronisation messages to a legacy
+ system that only understands the original synchronisation protocol.
+
+ 1 selects the current synchronisation protocol (version 1). This
+ should be used where possible.
+
+ Kernels with this sync_version entry are able to receive messages
+ of both version 1 and version 2 of the synchronisation protocol.
+
+run_estimation - BOOLEAN
+ 0 - disabled
+ not 0 - enabled (default)
+
+ If disabled, the estimation will be suspended and kthread tasks
+ stopped.
+
+ You can always re-enable estimation by setting this value to 1.
+ But be careful, the first estimation after re-enable is not
+ accurate.