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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-08-30 09:22:00 -0700
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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-only */
+/*
+ * Access to user system call parameters and results
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is a stub providing documentation for what functions
+ * arch/ARCH/include/asm/syscall.h files need to define. Most arch definitions
+ * will be simple inlines.
+ *
+ * All of these functions expect to be called with no locks,
+ * and only when the caller is sure that the task of interest
+ * cannot return to user mode while we are looking at it.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _ASM_SYSCALL_H
+#define _ASM_SYSCALL_H 1
+
+struct task_struct;
+struct pt_regs;
+
+/**
+ * syscall_get_nr - find what system call a task is executing
+ * @task: task of interest, must be blocked
+ * @regs: task_pt_regs() of @task
+ *
+ * If @task is executing a system call or is at system call
+ * tracing about to attempt one, returns the system call number.
+ * If @task is not executing a system call, i.e. it's blocked
+ * inside the kernel for a fault or signal, returns -1.
+ *
+ * Note this returns int even on 64-bit machines. Only 32 bits of
+ * system call number can be meaningful. If the actual arch value
+ * is 64 bits, this truncates to 32 bits so 0xffffffff means -1.
+ *
+ * It's only valid to call this when @task is known to be blocked.
+ */
+int syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs);
+
+/**
+ * syscall_set_nr - change the system call a task is executing
+ * @task: task of interest, must be blocked
+ * @regs: task_pt_regs() of @task
+ * @nr: system call number
+ *
+ * Changes the system call number @task is about to execute.
+ *
+ * It's only valid to call this when @task is stopped for tracing on
+ * entry to a system call, due to %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACE or
+ * %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_AUDIT.
+ */
+void syscall_set_nr(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs, int nr);
+
+/**
+ * syscall_rollback - roll back registers after an aborted system call
+ * @task: task of interest, must be in system call exit tracing
+ * @regs: task_pt_regs() of @task
+ *
+ * It's only valid to call this when @task is stopped for system
+ * call exit tracing (due to %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACE or
+ * %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_AUDIT), after ptrace_report_syscall_permit_entry()
+ * returned False to prevent the system call from taking place.
+ *
+ * This rolls back the register state in @regs so it's as if the
+ * system call instruction was a no-op. The registers containing
+ * the system call number and arguments are as they were before the
+ * system call instruction. This may not be the same as what the
+ * register state looked like at system call entry tracing.
+ */
+void syscall_rollback(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs);
+
+/**
+ * syscall_get_error - check result of traced system call
+ * @task: task of interest, must be blocked
+ * @regs: task_pt_regs() of @task
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if the system call succeeded, or -ERRORCODE if it failed.
+ *
+ * It's only valid to call this when @task is stopped for tracing on exit
+ * from a system call, due to %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACE or
+ * %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_AUDIT.
+ */
+long syscall_get_error(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs);
+
+/**
+ * syscall_get_return_value - get the return value of a traced system call
+ * @task: task of interest, must be blocked
+ * @regs: task_pt_regs() of @task
+ *
+ * Returns the return value of the successful system call.
+ * This value is meaningless if syscall_get_error() returned nonzero.
+ *
+ * It's only valid to call this when @task is stopped for tracing on exit
+ * from a system call, due to %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACE or
+ * %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_AUDIT.
+ */
+long syscall_get_return_value(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs);
+
+/**
+ * syscall_set_return_value - change the return value of a traced system call
+ * @task: task of interest, must be blocked
+ * @regs: task_pt_regs() of @task
+ * @error: negative error code, or zero to indicate success
+ * @val: user return value if @error is zero
+ *
+ * This changes the results of the system call that user mode will see.
+ * If @error is zero, the user sees a successful system call with a
+ * return value of @val. If @error is nonzero, it's a negated errno
+ * code; the user sees a failed system call with this errno code.
+ *
+ * It's only valid to call this when @task is stopped for tracing on exit
+ * from a system call, due to %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACE or
+ * %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_AUDIT.
+ */
+void syscall_set_return_value(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
+ int error, long val);
+
+/**
+ * syscall_get_arguments - extract system call parameter values
+ * @task: task of interest, must be blocked
+ * @regs: task_pt_regs() of @task
+ * @args: array filled with argument values
+ *
+ * Fetches 6 arguments to the system call. First argument is stored in
+* @args[0], and so on.
+ *
+ * It's only valid to call this when @task is stopped for tracing on
+ * entry to a system call, due to %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACE or
+ * %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_AUDIT.
+ */
+void syscall_get_arguments(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
+ unsigned long *args);
+
+/**
+ * syscall_set_arguments - change system call parameter value
+ * @task: task of interest, must be in system call entry tracing
+ * @regs: task_pt_regs() of @task
+ * @args: array of argument values to store
+ *
+ * Changes 6 arguments to the system call.
+ * The first argument gets value @args[0], and so on.
+ *
+ * It's only valid to call this when @task is stopped for tracing on
+ * entry to a system call, due to %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACE or
+ * %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_AUDIT.
+ */
+void syscall_set_arguments(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
+ const unsigned long *args);
+
+/**
+ * syscall_get_arch - return the AUDIT_ARCH for the current system call
+ * @task: task of interest, must be blocked
+ *
+ * Returns the AUDIT_ARCH_* based on the system call convention in use.
+ *
+ * It's only valid to call this when @task is stopped on entry to a system
+ * call, due to %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACE, %SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_AUDIT, or
+ * %SYSCALL_WORK_SECCOMP.
+ *
+ * Architectures which permit CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER must
+ * provide an implementation of this.
+ */
+int syscall_get_arch(struct task_struct *task);
+#endif /* _ASM_SYSCALL_H */