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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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+General Information
+===================
+
+This document contains useful information to know when working with
+the Rust support in the kernel.
+
+
+``no_std``
+----------
+
+The Rust support in the kernel can link only `core <https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/>`_,
+but not `std <https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/>`_. Crates for use in the
+kernel must opt into this behavior using the ``#![no_std]`` attribute.
+
+
+.. _rust_code_documentation:
+
+Code documentation
+------------------
+
+Rust kernel code is documented using ``rustdoc``, its built-in documentation
+generator.
+
+The generated HTML docs include integrated search, linked items (e.g. types,
+functions, constants), source code, etc. They may be read at:
+
+	https://rust.docs.kernel.org
+
+For linux-next, please see:
+
+	https://rust.docs.kernel.org/next/
+
+There are also tags for each main release, e.g.:
+
+	https://rust.docs.kernel.org/6.10/
+
+The docs can also be easily generated and read locally. This is quite fast
+(same order as compiling the code itself) and no special tools or environment
+are needed. This has the added advantage that they will be tailored to
+the particular kernel configuration used. To generate them, use the ``rustdoc``
+target with the same invocation used for compilation, e.g.::
+
+	make LLVM=1 rustdoc
+
+To read the docs locally in your web browser, run e.g.::
+
+	xdg-open Documentation/output/rust/rustdoc/kernel/index.html
+
+To learn about how to write the documentation, please see coding-guidelines.rst.
+
+
+Extra lints
+-----------
+
+While ``rustc`` is a very helpful compiler, some extra lints and analyses are
+available via ``clippy``, a Rust linter. To enable it, pass ``CLIPPY=1`` to
+the same invocation used for compilation, e.g.::
+
+	make LLVM=1 CLIPPY=1
+
+Please note that Clippy may change code generation, thus it should not be
+enabled while building a production kernel.
+
+
+Abstractions vs. bindings
+-------------------------
+
+Abstractions are Rust code wrapping kernel functionality from the C side.
+
+In order to use functions and types from the C side, bindings are created.
+Bindings are the declarations for Rust of those functions and types from
+the C side.
+
+For instance, one may write a ``Mutex`` abstraction in Rust which wraps
+a ``struct mutex`` from the C side and calls its functions through the bindings.
+
+Abstractions are not available for all the kernel internal APIs and concepts,
+but it is intended that coverage is expanded as time goes on. "Leaf" modules
+(e.g. drivers) should not use the C bindings directly. Instead, subsystems
+should provide as-safe-as-possible abstractions as needed.
+
+.. code-block::
+
+	                                                rust/bindings/
+	                                               (rust/helpers/)
+
+	                                                   include/ -----+ <-+
+	                                                                 |   |
+	  drivers/              rust/kernel/              +----------+ <-+   |
+	    fs/                                           | bindgen  |       |
+	   .../            +-------------------+          +----------+ --+   |
+	                   |    Abstractions   |                         |   |
+	+---------+        | +------+ +------+ |          +----------+   |   |
+	| my_foo  | -----> | | foo  | | bar  | | -------> | Bindings | <-+   |
+	| driver  |  Safe  | | sub- | | sub- | |  Unsafe  |          |       |
+	+---------+        | |system| |system| |          | bindings | <-----+
+	     |             | +------+ +------+ |          |  crate   |       |
+	     |             |   kernel crate    |          +----------+       |
+	     |             +-------------------+                             |
+	     |                                                               |
+	     +------------------# FORBIDDEN #--------------------------------+
+
+The main idea is to encapsulate all direct interaction with the kernel's C APIs
+into carefully reviewed and documented abstractions. Then users of these
+abstractions cannot introduce undefined behavior (UB) as long as:
+
+#. The abstractions are correct ("sound").
+#. Any ``unsafe`` blocks respect the safety contract necessary to call the
+   operations inside the block. Similarly, any ``unsafe impl``\ s respect the
+   safety contract necessary to implement the trait.
+
+Bindings
+~~~~~~~~
+
+By including a C header from ``include/`` into
+``rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h``, the ``bindgen`` tool will auto-generate the
+bindings for the included subsystem. After building, see the ``*_generated.rs``
+output files in the ``rust/bindings/`` directory.
+
+For parts of the C header that ``bindgen`` does not auto generate, e.g. C
+``inline`` functions or non-trivial macros, it is acceptable to add a small
+wrapper function to ``rust/helpers/`` to make it available for the Rust side as
+well.
+
+Abstractions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Abstractions are the layer between the bindings and the in-kernel users. They
+are located in ``rust/kernel/`` and their role is to encapsulate the unsafe
+access to the bindings into an as-safe-as-possible API that they expose to their
+users. Users of the abstractions include things like drivers or file systems
+written in Rust.
+
+Besides the safety aspect, the abstractions are supposed to be "ergonomic", in
+the sense that they turn the C interfaces into "idiomatic" Rust code. Basic
+examples are to turn the C resource acquisition and release into Rust
+constructors and destructors or C integer error codes into Rust's ``Result``\ s.
+
+
+Conditional compilation
+-----------------------
+
+Rust code has access to conditional compilation based on the kernel
+configuration:
+
+.. code-block:: rust
+
+	#[cfg(CONFIG_X)]       // Enabled               (`y` or `m`)
+	#[cfg(CONFIG_X="y")]   // Enabled as a built-in (`y`)
+	#[cfg(CONFIG_X="m")]   // Enabled as a module   (`m`)
+	#[cfg(not(CONFIG_X))]  // Disabled
+
+For other predicates that Rust's ``cfg`` does not support, e.g. expressions with
+numerical comparisons, one may define a new Kconfig symbol:
+
+.. code-block:: kconfig
+
+	config RUSTC_HAS_SPAN_FILE
+		def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108800