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| author | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2026-09-02 09:55:01 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2026-09-02 11:08:21 -0400 |
| commit | 4617721c502b2ddaa4e324e86da4997edf738fa5 (patch) | |
| tree | 350aa83b47da0b574a814795392b20b0bed83cbc /scripts/tracing | |
| download | linux-stable-4617721c502b2ddaa4e324e86da4997edf738fa5.tar.gz linux-stable-4617721c502b2ddaa4e324e86da4997edf738fa5.zip | |
ftrace: Synchronize the initialization of ftrace_opsgrafted
There's some internal state that ftrace_ops needs to have set, but since
it can be declared outside of the ftrace.c code, it calls
ftrace_ops_init() on the ops in every global function. The issue is that
if two tasks call it on the same ops at the same time it is possible to
have the initialization of one corrupt the initialization of the other
call.
Create a ops_mutex to use to synchronize every initialization of the
ftrace_ops. The mutex is taken within checking the ftrace_ops flag that
states it was initializied but the flag is checked again after the mutex
has been taken. Checking first outside the mutex allows it to shortcut
having to take the mutex. But then the check needs to be done again after
the mute is taken in case of races.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260902095501.6b59af20@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: f04f24fb7e48d ("ftrace, kprobes: Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Close: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260829025528.49A831F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/tracing')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/tracing/ftrace-bisect.sh | 134 |
1 files changed, 134 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/tracing/ftrace-bisect.sh b/scripts/tracing/ftrace-bisect.sh new file mode 100755 index 000000000..bb4f59262 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/tracing/ftrace-bisect.sh @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +# +# Here's how to use this: +# +# This script is used to help find functions that are being traced by function +# tracer or function graph tracing that causes the machine to reboot, hang, or +# crash. Here's the steps to take. +# +# First, determine if function tracing is working with a single function: +# +# (note, if this is a problem with function_graph tracing, then simply +# replace "function" with "function_graph" in the following steps). +# +# # cd /sys/kernel/tracing +# # echo schedule > set_ftrace_filter +# # echo function > current_tracer +# +# If this works, then we know that something is being traced that shouldn't be. +# +# # echo nop > current_tracer +# +# Starting with v5.1 this can be done with numbers, making it much faster: +# +# The old (slow) way, for kernels before v5.1. +# +# [old-way] # cat available_filter_functions > ~/full-file +# +# [old-way] *** Note *** this process will take several minutes to update the +# [old-way] filters. Setting multiple functions is an O(n^2) operation, and we +# [old-way] are dealing with thousands of functions. So go have coffee, talk +# [old-way] with your coworkers, read facebook. And eventually, this operation +# [old-way] will end. +# +# The new way (using numbers) is an O(n) operation, and usually takes less than a second. +# +# seq `wc -l available_filter_functions | cut -d' ' -f1` > ~/full-file +# +# This will create a sequence of numbers that match the functions in +# available_filter_functions, and when echoing in a number into the +# set_ftrace_filter file, it will enable the corresponding function in +# O(1) time. Making enabling all functions O(n) where n is the number of +# functions to enable. +# +# For either the new or old way, the rest of the operations remain the same. +# +# # ftrace-bisect ~/full-file ~/test-file ~/non-test-file +# # cat ~/test-file > set_ftrace_filter +# +# # echo function > current_tracer +# +# If it crashes, we know that ~/test-file has a bad function. +# +# Reboot back to test kernel. +# +# # cd /sys/kernel/tracing +# # mv ~/test-file ~/full-file +# +# If it didn't crash. +# +# # echo nop > current_tracer +# # mv ~/non-test-file ~/full-file +# +# Get rid of the other test file from previous run (or save them off somewhere). +# # rm -f ~/test-file ~/non-test-file +# +# And start again: +# +# # ftrace-bisect ~/full-file ~/test-file ~/non-test-file +# +# The good thing is, because this cuts the number of functions in ~/test-file +# by half, the cat of it into set_ftrace_filter takes half as long each +# iteration, so don't talk so much at the water cooler the second time. +# +# Eventually, if you did this correctly, you will get down to the problem +# function, and all we need to do is to notrace it. +# +# The way to figure out if the problem function is bad, just do: +# +# # echo <problem-function> > set_ftrace_notrace +# # echo > set_ftrace_filter +# # echo function > current_tracer +# +# And if it doesn't crash, we are done. +# +# If it does crash, do this again (there's more than one problem function) +# but you need to echo the problem function(s) into set_ftrace_notrace before +# enabling function tracing in the above steps. Or if you can compile the +# kernel, annotate the problem functions with "notrace" and start again. +# + + +if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then + echo 'usage: ftrace-bisect full-file test-file non-test-file' + exit +fi + +full=$1 +test=$2 +nontest=$3 + +x=`cat $full | wc -l` +if [ $x -eq 1 ]; then + echo "There's only one function left, must be the bad one" + cat $full + exit 0 +fi + +let x=$x/2 +let y=$x+1 + +if [ ! -f $full ]; then + echo "$full does not exist" + exit 1 +fi + +if [ -f $test ]; then + echo -n "$test exists, delete it? [y/N]" + read a + if [ "$a" != "y" -a "$a" != "Y" ]; then + exit 1 + fi +fi + +if [ -f $nontest ]; then + echo -n "$nontest exists, delete it? [y/N]" + read a + if [ "$a" != "y" -a "$a" != "Y" ]; then + exit 1 + fi +fi + +sed -ne "1,${x}p" $full > $test +sed -ne "$y,\$p" $full > $nontest |
