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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-08-30 09:22:00 -0700
committerLinus 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
+
+/*
+ * Helper functions for finding the symbol in an ELF which is "nearest"
+ * to a given address.
+ */
+#include <xalloc.h>
+#include "modpost.h"
+
+struct syminfo {
+ unsigned int symbol_index;
+ unsigned int section_index;
+ Elf_Addr addr;
+};
+
+/*
+ * Container used to hold an entire binary search table.
+ * Entries in table are ascending, sorted first by section_index,
+ * then by addr, and last by symbol_index. The sorting by
+ * symbol_index is used to ensure predictable behavior when
+ * multiple symbols are present with the same address; all
+ * symbols past the first are effectively ignored, by eliding
+ * them in symsearch_fixup().
+ */
+struct symsearch {
+ unsigned int table_size;
+ struct syminfo table[];
+};
+
+static int syminfo_compare(const void *s1, const void *s2)
+{
+ const struct syminfo *sym1 = s1;
+ const struct syminfo *sym2 = s2;
+
+ if (sym1->section_index > sym2->section_index)
+ return 1;
+ if (sym1->section_index < sym2->section_index)
+ return -1;
+ if (sym1->addr > sym2->addr)
+ return 1;
+ if (sym1->addr < sym2->addr)
+ return -1;
+ if (sym1->symbol_index > sym2->symbol_index)
+ return 1;
+ if (sym1->symbol_index < sym2->symbol_index)
+ return -1;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static unsigned int symbol_count(struct elf_info *elf)
+{
+ unsigned int result = 0;
+
+ for (Elf_Sym *sym = elf->symtab_start; sym < elf->symtab_stop; sym++) {
+ if (is_valid_name(elf, sym))
+ result++;
+ }
+ return result;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Populate the search array that we just allocated.
+ * Be slightly paranoid here. The ELF file is mmap'd and could
+ * conceivably change between symbol_count() and symsearch_populate().
+ * If we notice any difference, bail out rather than potentially
+ * propagating errors or crashing.
+ */
+static void symsearch_populate(struct elf_info *elf,
+ struct syminfo *table,
+ unsigned int table_size)
+{
+ bool is_arm = (elf->hdr->e_machine == EM_ARM);
+
+ for (Elf_Sym *sym = elf->symtab_start; sym < elf->symtab_stop; sym++) {
+ if (is_valid_name(elf, sym)) {
+ if (table_size-- == 0)
+ fatal("%s: size mismatch\n", __func__);
+ table->symbol_index = sym - elf->symtab_start;
+ table->section_index = get_secindex(elf, sym);
+ table->addr = sym->st_value;
+
+ /*
+ * For ARM Thumb instruction, the bit 0 of st_value is
+ * set if the symbol is STT_FUNC type. Mask it to get
+ * the address.
+ */
+ if (is_arm && ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) == STT_FUNC)
+ table->addr &= ~1;
+
+ table++;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (table_size != 0)
+ fatal("%s: size mismatch\n", __func__);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Do any fixups on the table after sorting.
+ * For now, this just finds adjacent entries which have
+ * the same section_index and addr, and it propagates
+ * the first symbol_index over the subsequent entries,
+ * so that only one symbol_index is seen for any given
+ * section_index and addr. This ensures that whether
+ * we're looking at an address from "above" or "below"
+ * that we see the same symbol_index.
+ * This does leave some duplicate entries in the table;
+ * in practice, these are a small fraction of the
+ * total number of entries, and they are harmless to
+ * the binary search algorithm other than a few occasional
+ * unnecessary comparisons.
+ */
+static void symsearch_fixup(struct syminfo *table, unsigned int table_size)
+{
+ /* Don't look at index 0, it will never change. */
+ for (unsigned int i = 1; i < table_size; i++) {
+ if (table[i].addr == table[i - 1].addr &&
+ table[i].section_index == table[i - 1].section_index) {
+ table[i].symbol_index = table[i - 1].symbol_index;
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+void symsearch_init(struct elf_info *elf)
+{
+ unsigned int table_size = symbol_count(elf);
+
+ elf->symsearch = xmalloc(sizeof(struct symsearch) +
+ sizeof(struct syminfo) * table_size);
+ elf->symsearch->table_size = table_size;
+
+ symsearch_populate(elf, elf->symsearch->table, table_size);
+ qsort(elf->symsearch->table, table_size,
+ sizeof(struct syminfo), syminfo_compare);
+
+ symsearch_fixup(elf->symsearch->table, table_size);
+}
+
+void symsearch_finish(struct elf_info *elf)
+{
+ free(elf->symsearch);
+ elf->symsearch = NULL;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Find the syminfo which is in secndx and "nearest" to addr.
+ * allow_negative: allow returning a symbol whose address is > addr.
+ * min_distance: ignore symbols which are further away than this.
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer into the symbol table for success.
+ * Returns NULL if no legal symbol is found within the requested range.
+ */
+Elf_Sym *symsearch_find_nearest(struct elf_info *elf, Elf_Addr addr,
+ unsigned int secndx, bool allow_negative,
+ Elf_Addr min_distance)
+{
+ unsigned int hi = elf->symsearch->table_size;
+ unsigned int lo = 0;
+ struct syminfo *table = elf->symsearch->table;
+ struct syminfo target;
+
+ target.addr = addr;
+ target.section_index = secndx;
+ target.symbol_index = ~0; /* compares greater than any actual index */
+ while (hi > lo) {
+ unsigned int mid = lo + (hi - lo) / 2; /* Avoids overflow */
+
+ if (syminfo_compare(&table[mid], &target) > 0)
+ hi = mid;
+ else
+ lo = mid + 1;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * table[hi], if it exists, is the first entry in the array which
+ * lies beyond target. table[hi - 1], if it exists, is the last
+ * entry in the array which comes before target, including the
+ * case where it perfectly matches the section and the address.
+ *
+ * Note -- if the address we're looking up falls perfectly
+ * in the middle of two symbols, this is written to always
+ * prefer the symbol with the lower address.
+ */
+ Elf_Sym *result = NULL;
+
+ if (allow_negative &&
+ hi < elf->symsearch->table_size &&
+ table[hi].section_index == secndx &&
+ table[hi].addr - addr <= min_distance) {
+ min_distance = table[hi].addr - addr;
+ result = &elf->symtab_start[table[hi].symbol_index];
+ }
+ if (hi > 0 &&
+ table[hi - 1].section_index == secndx &&
+ addr - table[hi - 1].addr <= min_distance) {
+ result = &elf->symtab_start[table[hi - 1].symbol_index];
+ }
+ return result;
+}