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/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+=====================================
+Using Netlink protocol specifications
+=====================================
+
+This document is a quick starting guide for using Netlink protocol
+specifications. For more detailed description of the specs see :doc:`specs`.
+
+Simple CLI
+==========
+
+Kernel comes with a simple CLI tool which should be useful when
+developing Netlink related code. The tool is implemented in Python
+and can use a YAML specification to issue Netlink requests
+to the kernel.
+
+The tool is located at ``tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py``. It accepts
+a handful of arguments, the most important ones are:
+
+ - ``--spec`` - point to the spec file
+ - ``--do $name`` / ``--dump $name`` - issue request ``$name``
+ - ``--json $attrs`` - provide attributes for the request
+ - ``--subscribe $group`` - receive notifications from ``$group``
+
+YAML specs can be found under ``Documentation/netlink/specs/``.
+
+Example use::
+
+  $ ./tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml \
+        --do rings-get \
+	--json '{"header":{"dev-index": 18}}'
+  {'header': {'dev-index': 18, 'dev-name': 'eni1np1'},
+   'rx': 0,
+   'rx-jumbo': 0,
+   'rx-jumbo-max': 4096,
+   'rx-max': 4096,
+   'rx-mini': 0,
+   'rx-mini-max': 4096,
+   'tx': 0,
+   'tx-max': 4096,
+   'tx-push': 0}
+
+The input arguments are parsed as JSON, while the output is only
+Python-pretty-printed. This is because some Netlink types can't
+be expressed as JSON directly. If such attributes are needed in
+the input some hacking of the script will be necessary.
+
+The spec and Netlink internals are factored out as a standalone
+library - it should be easy to write Python tools / tests reusing
+code from ``cli.py``.
+
+Generating kernel code
+======================
+
+``tools/net/ynl/ynl-regen.sh`` scans the kernel tree in search of
+auto-generated files which need to be updated. Using this tool is the easiest
+way to generate / update auto-generated code.
+
+By default code is re-generated only if spec is newer than the source,
+to force regeneration use ``-f``.
+
+``ynl-regen.sh`` searches for ``YNL-GEN`` in the contents of files
+(note that it only scans files in the git index, that is only files
+tracked by git!) For instance the ``fou_nl.c`` kernel source contains::
+
+  /*	Documentation/netlink/specs/fou.yaml */
+  /* YNL-GEN kernel source */
+
+``ynl-regen.sh`` will find this marker and replace the file with
+kernel source based on fou.yaml.
+
+The simplest way to generate a new file based on a spec is to add
+the two marker lines like above to a file, add that file to git,
+and run the regeneration tool. Grep the tree for ``YNL-GEN``
+to see other examples.
+
+The code generation itself is performed by ``tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py``
+but it takes a few arguments so calling it directly for each file
+quickly becomes tedious.
+
+YNL lib
+=======
+
+``tools/net/ynl/lib/`` contains an implementation of a C library
+(based on libmnl) which integrates with code generated by
+``tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py`` to create easy to use netlink wrappers.
+
+YNL basics
+----------
+
+The YNL library consists of two parts - the generic code (functions
+prefix by ``ynl_``) and per-family auto-generated code (prefixed
+with the name of the family).
+
+To create a YNL socket call ynl_sock_create() passing the family
+struct (family structs are exported by the auto-generated code).
+ynl_sock_destroy() closes the socket.
+
+YNL requests
+------------
+
+Steps for issuing YNL requests are best explained on an example.
+All the functions and types in this example come from the auto-generated
+code (for the netdev family in this case):
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+   // 0. Request and response pointers
+   struct netdev_dev_get_req *req;
+   struct netdev_dev_get_rsp *d;
+
+   // 1. Allocate a request
+   req = netdev_dev_get_req_alloc();
+   // 2. Set request parameters (as needed)
+   netdev_dev_get_req_set_ifindex(req, ifindex);
+
+   // 3. Issues the request
+   d = netdev_dev_get(ys, req);
+   // 4. Free the request arguments
+   netdev_dev_get_req_free(req);
+   // 5. Error check (the return value from step 3)
+   if (!d) {
+	// 6. Print the YNL-generated error
+	fprintf(stderr, "YNL: %s\n", ys->err.msg);
+        return -1;
+   }
+
+   // ... do stuff with the response @d
+
+   // 7. Free response
+   netdev_dev_get_rsp_free(d);
+
+YNL dumps
+---------
+
+Performing dumps follows similar pattern as requests.
+Dumps return a list of objects terminated by a special marker,
+or NULL on error. Use ``ynl_dump_foreach()`` to iterate over
+the result.
+
+YNL notifications
+-----------------
+
+YNL lib supports using the same socket for notifications and
+requests. In case notifications arrive during processing of a request
+they are queued internally and can be retrieved at a later time.
+
+To subscribed to notifications use ``ynl_subscribe()``.
+The notifications have to be read out from the socket,
+``ynl_socket_get_fd()`` returns the underlying socket fd which can
+be plugged into appropriate asynchronous IO API like ``poll``,
+or ``select``.
+
+Notifications can be retrieved using ``ynl_ntf_dequeue()`` and have
+to be freed using ``ynl_ntf_free()``. Since we don't know the notification
+type upfront the notifications are returned as ``struct ynl_ntf_base_type *``
+and user is expected to cast them to the appropriate full type based
+on the ``cmd`` member.