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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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diff --git a/samples/hung_task/Makefile b/samples/hung_task/Makefile
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_HUNG_TASK) += hung_task_tests.o
diff --git a/samples/hung_task/hung_task_tests.c b/samples/hung_task/hung_task_tests.c
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * hung_task_tests.c - Sample code for testing hung tasks with mutex,
+ * semaphore, etc.
+ *
+ * Usage: Load this module and read `<debugfs>/hung_task/mutex`,
+ * `<debugfs>/hung_task/semaphore`, `<debugfs>/hung_task/rw_semaphore_read`,
+ * `<debugfs>/hung_task/rw_semaphore_write`, etc., with 2 or more processes.
+ *
+ * This is for testing kernel hung_task error messages with various locking
+ * mechanisms (e.g., mutex, semaphore, rw_semaphore_read, rw_semaphore_write, etc.).
+ * Note that this may freeze your system or cause a panic. Use only for testing purposes.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/semaphore.h>
+#include <linux/rwsem.h>
+
+#define HUNG_TASK_DIR "hung_task"
+#define HUNG_TASK_MUTEX_FILE "mutex"
+#define HUNG_TASK_SEM_FILE "semaphore"
+#define HUNG_TASK_RWSEM_READ_FILE "rw_semaphore_read"
+#define HUNG_TASK_RWSEM_WRITE_FILE "rw_semaphore_write"
+#define SLEEP_SECOND 256
+
+static const char dummy_string[] = "This is a dummy string.";
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(dummy_mutex);
+static DEFINE_SEMAPHORE(dummy_sem, 1);
+static DECLARE_RWSEM(dummy_rwsem);
+static struct dentry *hung_task_dir;
+
+/* Mutex-based read function */
+static ssize_t read_dummy_mutex(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ /* Check if data is already read */
+ if (*ppos >= sizeof(dummy_string))
+ return 0;
+
+ /* Second task waits on mutex, entering uninterruptible sleep */
+ guard(mutex)(&dummy_mutex);
+
+ /* First task sleeps here, interruptible */
+ msleep_interruptible(SLEEP_SECOND * 1000);
+
+ return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, dummy_string,
+ sizeof(dummy_string));
+}
+
+/* Semaphore-based read function */
+static ssize_t read_dummy_semaphore(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ /* Check if data is already read */
+ if (*ppos >= sizeof(dummy_string))
+ return 0;
+
+ /* Second task waits on semaphore, entering uninterruptible sleep */
+ down(&dummy_sem);
+
+ /* First task sleeps here, interruptible */
+ msleep_interruptible(SLEEP_SECOND * 1000);
+
+ up(&dummy_sem);
+
+ return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, dummy_string,
+ sizeof(dummy_string));
+}
+
+/* Read-write semaphore read function */
+static ssize_t read_dummy_rwsem_read(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ /* Check if data is already read */
+ if (*ppos >= sizeof(dummy_string))
+ return 0;
+
+ /* Acquires read lock, allowing concurrent readers but blocks if write lock is held */
+ down_read(&dummy_rwsem);
+
+ /* Sleeps here, potentially triggering hung task detection if lock is held too long */
+ msleep_interruptible(SLEEP_SECOND * 1000);
+
+ up_read(&dummy_rwsem);
+
+ return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, dummy_string,
+ sizeof(dummy_string));
+}
+
+/* Read-write semaphore write function */
+static ssize_t read_dummy_rwsem_write(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ /* Check if data is already read */
+ if (*ppos >= sizeof(dummy_string))
+ return 0;
+
+ /* Acquires exclusive write lock, blocking all other readers and writers */
+ down_write(&dummy_rwsem);
+
+ /* Sleeps here, potentially triggering hung task detection if lock is held too long */
+ msleep_interruptible(SLEEP_SECOND * 1000);
+
+ up_write(&dummy_rwsem);
+
+ return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, dummy_string,
+ sizeof(dummy_string));
+}
+
+/* File operations for mutex */
+static const struct file_operations hung_task_mutex_fops = {
+ .read = read_dummy_mutex,
+};
+
+/* File operations for semaphore */
+static const struct file_operations hung_task_sem_fops = {
+ .read = read_dummy_semaphore,
+};
+
+/* File operations for rw_semaphore read */
+static const struct file_operations hung_task_rwsem_read_fops = {
+ .read = read_dummy_rwsem_read,
+};
+
+/* File operations for rw_semaphore write */
+static const struct file_operations hung_task_rwsem_write_fops = {
+ .read = read_dummy_rwsem_write,
+};
+
+static int __init hung_task_tests_init(void)
+{
+ hung_task_dir = debugfs_create_dir(HUNG_TASK_DIR, NULL);
+ if (IS_ERR(hung_task_dir))
+ return PTR_ERR(hung_task_dir);
+
+ /* Create debugfs files for mutex and semaphore tests */
+ debugfs_create_file(HUNG_TASK_MUTEX_FILE, 0400, hung_task_dir, NULL,
+ &hung_task_mutex_fops);
+ debugfs_create_file(HUNG_TASK_SEM_FILE, 0400, hung_task_dir, NULL,
+ &hung_task_sem_fops);
+ debugfs_create_file(HUNG_TASK_RWSEM_READ_FILE, 0400, hung_task_dir, NULL,
+ &hung_task_rwsem_read_fops);
+ debugfs_create_file(HUNG_TASK_RWSEM_WRITE_FILE, 0400, hung_task_dir, NULL,
+ &hung_task_rwsem_write_fops);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void __exit hung_task_tests_exit(void)
+{
+ debugfs_remove_recursive(hung_task_dir);
+}
+
+module_init(hung_task_tests_init);
+module_exit(hung_task_tests_exit);
+
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Zi Li <amaindex@outlook.com>");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Simple sleep under lock files for testing hung task");