linux/kernel/trace/trace.h, branch v6.14

Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2025-01-24T01:59:25Z

Pull fgraph updates from Steven Rostedt: "Remove calltime and rettime from fgraph infrastructure The calltime and rettime were used by the function graph tracer to calculate the timings of functions where it traced their entry and exit. The calltime and rettime were stored in the generic structures that were used for the mechanisms to add an entry and exit callback. Now that function graph infrastructure is used by other subsystems than just the tracer, the calltime and rettime are not needed for them. Remove the calltime and rettime from the generic fgraph infrastructure and have the callers that require them handle them" * tag 'ftrace-v6.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: fgraph: Remove calltime and rettime from generic operations

Merge tag 'trace-v6.14-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2025-01-24T01:51:16Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Cleanup with guard() and free() helpers There were several places in the code that had a lot of "goto out" in the error paths to either unlock a lock or free some memory that was allocated. But this is error prone. Convert the code over to use the guard() and free() helpers that let the compiler unlock locks or free memory when the function exits. - Update the Rust tracepoint code to use the C code too There was some duplication of the tracepoint code for Rust that did the same logic as the C code. Add a helper that makes it possible for both algorithms to use the same logic in one place. - Add poll to trace event hist files It is useful to know when an event is triggered, or even with some filtering. Since hist files of events get updated when active and the event is triggered, allow applications to poll the hist file and wake up when an event is triggered. This will let the application know that the event it is waiting for happened. - Add :mod: command to enable events for current or future modules The function tracer already has a way to enable functions to be traced in modules by writing ":mod:" into set_ftrace_filter. That will enable either all the functions for the module if it is loaded, or if it is not, it will cache that command, and when the module is loaded that matches , its functions will be enabled. This also allows init functions to be traced. But currently events do not have that feature. Add the command where if ':mod:' is written into set_event, then either all the modules events are enabled if it is loaded, or cache it so that the module's events are enabled when it is loaded. This also works from the kernel command line, where "trace_event=:mod:", when the module is loaded at boot up, its events will be enabled then. * tag 'trace-v6.14-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (26 commits) tracing: Fix output of set_event for some cached module events tracing: Fix allocation of printing set_event file content tracing: Rename update_cache() to update_mod_cache() tracing: Fix #if CONFIG_MODULES to #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES selftests/ftrace: Add test that tests event :mod: commands tracing: Cache ":mod:" events for modules not loaded yet tracing: Add :mod: command to enabled module events selftests/tracing: Add hist poll() support test tracing/hist: Support POLLPRI event for poll on histogram tracing/hist: Add poll(POLLIN) support on hist file tracing: Fix using ret variable in tracing_set_tracer() tracepoint: Reduce duplication of __DO_TRACE_CALL tracing/string: Create and use __free(argv_free) in trace_dynevent.c tracing: Switch trace_stat.c code over to use guard() tracing: Switch trace_stack.c code over to use guard() tracing: Switch trace_osnoise.c code over to use guard() and __free() tracing: Switch trace_events_synth.c code over to use guard() tracing: Switch trace_events_filter.c code over to use guard() tracing: Switch trace_events_trigger.c code over to use guard() tracing: Switch trace_events_hist.c code over to use guard() ...

fgraph: Remove calltime and rettime from generic operations

2025-01-22T02:55:49Z

The function graph infrastructure is now generic so that kretprobes, fprobes and BPF can use it. But there is still some leftover logic that only the function graph tracer itself uses. This is the calculation of the calltime and return time of the functions. The calculation of the calltime has been moved into the function graph tracer and those users that need it so that it doesn't cause overhead to the other users. But the return function timestamp was still called. Instead of just moving the taking of the timestamp into the function graph trace remove the calltime and rettime completely from the ftrace_graph_ret structure. Instead, move it into the function graph return entry event structure and this also moves all the calltime and rettime logic out of the generic fgraph.c code and into the tracing code that uses it. This has been reported to decrease the overhead by ~27%. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z3aSuql3fnXMVMoM@krava/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/173665959558.1629214.16724136597211810729.stgit@devnote2/ Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250121194436.15bdf71a@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Jiri Olsa Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2025-01-21T23:15:28Z

Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt: - Have fprobes built on top of function graph infrastructure The fprobe logic is an optimized kprobe that uses ftrace to attach to functions when a probe is needed at the start or end of the function. The fprobe and kretprobe logic implements a similar method as the function graph tracer to trace the end of the function. That is to hijack the return address and jump to a trampoline to do the trace when the function exits. To do this, a shadow stack needs to be created to store the original return address. Fprobes and function graph do this slightly differently. Fprobes (and kretprobes) has slots per callsite that are reserved to save the return address. This is fine when just a few points are traced. But users of fprobes, such as BPF programs, are starting to add many more locations, and this method does not scale. The function graph tracer was created to trace all functions in the kernel. In order to do this, when function graph tracing is started, every task gets its own shadow stack to hold the return address that is going to be traced. The function graph tracer has been updated to allow multiple users to use its infrastructure. Now have fprobes be one of those users. This will also allow for the fprobe and kretprobe methods to trace the return address to become obsolete. With new technologies like CFI that need to know about these methods of hijacking the return address, going toward a solution that has only one method of doing this will make the kernel less complex. - Cleanup with guard() and free() helpers There were several places in the code that had a lot of "goto out" in the error paths to either unlock a lock or free some memory that was allocated. But this is error prone. Convert the code over to use the guard() and free() helpers that let the compiler unlock locks or free memory when the function exits. - Remove disabling of interrupts in the function graph tracer When function graph tracer was first introduced, it could race with interrupts and NMIs. To prevent that race, it would disable interrupts and not trace NMIs. But the code has changed to allow NMIs and also interrupts. This change was done a long time ago, but the disabling of interrupts was never removed. Remove the disabling of interrupts in the function graph tracer is it is not needed. This greatly improves its performance. - Allow the :mod: command to enable tracing module functions on the kernel command line. The function tracer already has a way to enable functions to be traced in modules by writing ":mod:" into set_ftrace_filter. That will enable either all the functions for the module if it is loaded, or if it is not, it will cache that command, and when the module is loaded that matches , its functions will be enabled. This also allows init functions to be traced. But currently events do not have that feature. Because enabling function tracing can be done very early at boot up (before scheduling is enabled), the commands that can be done when function tracing is started is limited. Having the ":mod:" command to trace module functions as they are loaded is very useful. Update the kernel command line function filtering to allow it. * tag 'ftrace-v6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (26 commits) ftrace: Implement :mod: cache filtering on kernel command line tracing: Adopt __free() and guard() for trace_fprobe.c bpf: Use ftrace_get_symaddr() for kprobe_multi probes ftrace: Add ftrace_get_symaddr to convert fentry_ip to symaddr Documentation: probes: Update fprobe on function-graph tracer selftests/ftrace: Add a test case for repeating register/unregister fprobe selftests: ftrace: Remove obsolate maxactive syntax check tracing/fprobe: Remove nr_maxactive from fprobe fprobe: Add fprobe_header encoding feature fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer s390/tracing: Enable HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC ftrace: Add CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC bpf: Enable kprobe_multi feature if CONFIG_FPROBE is enabled tracing/fprobe: Enable fprobe events with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS tracing: Add ftrace_fill_perf_regs() for perf event tracing: Add ftrace_partial_regs() for converting ftrace_regs to pt_regs fprobe: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe exit handler fprobe: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe entry handler fgraph: Pass ftrace_regs to retfunc fgraph: Replace fgraph_ret_regs with ftrace_regs ...

Merge tag 'kernel-6.14-rc1.pid' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2025-01-20T18:29:11Z

Pull pid_max namespacing update from Christian Brauner: "The pid_max sysctl is a global value. For a long time the default value has been 65535 and during the pidfd dicussions Linus proposed to bump pid_max by default. Based on this discussion systemd started bumping pid_max to 2^22. So all new systems now run with a very high pid_max limit with some distros having also backported that change. The decision to bump pid_max is obviously correct. It just doesn't make a lot of sense nowadays to enforce such a low pid number. There's sufficient tooling to make selecting specific processes without typing really large pid numbers available. In any case, there are workloads that have expections about how large pid numbers they accept. Either for historical reasons or architectural reasons. One concreate example is the 32-bit version of Android's bionic libc which requires pid numbers less than 65536. There are workloads where it is run in a 32-bit container on a 64-bit kernel. If the host has a pid_max value greater than 65535 the libc will abort thread creation because of size assumptions of pthread_mutex_t. That's a fairly specific use-case however, in general specific workloads that are moved into containers running on a host with a new kernel and a new systemd can run into issues with large pid_max values. Obviously making assumptions about the size of the allocated pid is suboptimal but we have userspace that does it. Of course, giving containers the ability to restrict the number of processes in their respective pid namespace indepent of the global limit through pid_max is something desirable in itself and comes in handy in general. Independent of motivating use-cases the existence of pid namespaces makes this also a good semantical extension and there have been prior proposals pushing in a similar direction. The trick here is to minimize the risk of regressions which I think is doable. The fact that pid namespaces are hierarchical will help us here. What we mostly care about is that when the host sets a low pid_max limit, say (crazy number) 100 that no descendant pid namespace can allocate a higher pid number in its namespace. Since pid allocation is hierarchial this can be ensured by checking each pid allocation against the pid namespace's pid_max limit. This means if the allocation in the descendant pid namespace succeeds, the ancestor pid namespace can reject it. If the ancestor pid namespace has a higher limit than the descendant pid namespace the descendant pid namespace will reject the pid allocation. The ancestor pid namespace will obviously not care about this. All in all this means pid_max continues to enforce a system wide limit on the number of processes but allows pid namespaces sufficient leeway in handling workloads with assumptions about pid values and allows containers to restrict the number of processes in a pid namespace through the pid_max interface" * tag 'kernel-6.14-rc1.pid' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: tests/pid_namespace: add pid_max tests pid: allow pid_max to be set per pid namespace

ftrace: Implement :mod: cache filtering on kernel command line

2025-01-17T02:27:10Z

Module functions can be set to set_ftrace_filter before the module is loaded. # echo :mod:snd_hda_intel > set_ftrace_filter This will enable all the functions for the module snd_hda_intel. If that module is not loaded, it is "cached" in the trace array for when the module is loaded, its functions will be traced. But this is not implemented in the kernel command line. That's because the kernel command line filtering is added very early in boot up as it is needed to be done before boot time function tracing can start, which is also available very early in boot up. The code used by the "set_ftrace_filter" file can not be used that early as it depends on some other initialization to occur first. But some of the functions can. Implement the ":mod:" feature of "set_ftrace_filter" in the kernel command line parsing. Now function tracing on just a single module that is loaded at boot up can be done. Adding: ftrace=function ftrace_filter=:mod:sna_hda_intel To the kernel command line will only enable the sna_hda_intel module functions when the module is loaded, and it will start tracing. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250116175832.34e39779@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Cache ":mod:" events for modules not loaded yet

2025-01-16T14:41:08Z

When the :mod: command is written into /sys/kernel/tracing/set_event (or that file within an instance), if the module specified after the ":mod:" is not yet loaded, it will store that string internally. When the module is loaded, it will enable the events as if the module was loaded when the string was written into the set_event file. This can also be useful to enable events that are in the init section of the module, as the events are enabled before the init section is executed. This also works on the kernel command line: trace_event=:mod: Will enable the events for when it is loaded. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Andrew Morton Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250116143533.514730995@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

fgraph: Pass ftrace_regs to retfunc

2024-12-26T15:50:03Z

Pass ftrace_regs to the fgraph_ops::retfunc(). If ftrace_regs is not available, it passes a NULL instead. User callback function can access some registers (including return address) via this ftrace_regs. Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Florent Revest Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: bpf Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alan Maguire Cc: Mark Rutland Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173518992972.391279.14055405490327765506.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

fgraph: Pass ftrace_regs to entryfunc

2024-12-26T15:50:02Z

Pass ftrace_regs to the fgraph_ops::entryfunc(). If ftrace_regs is not available, it passes a NULL instead. User callback function can access some registers (including return address) via this ftrace_regs. Note that the ftrace_regs can be NULL when the arch does NOT define: HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS or HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS. More specifically, if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS is defined but not the HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, and the ftrace ops used to register the function callback does not set FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS. In this case, ftrace_regs can be NULL in user callback. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Florent Revest Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: bpf Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alan Maguire Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Naveen N Rao Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173518990044.391279.17406984900626078579.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Check "%s" dereference via the field and not the TP_printk format

2024-12-17T16:40:11Z

The TP_printk() portion of a trace event is executed at the time a event is read from the trace. This can happen seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years possibly later since the event was recorded. If the print format contains a dereference to a string via "%s", and that string was allocated, there's a chance that string could be freed before it is read by the trace file. To protect against such bugs, there are two functions that verify the event. The first one is test_event_printk(), which is called when the event is created. It reads the TP_printk() format as well as its arguments to make sure nothing may be dereferencing a pointer that was not copied into the ring buffer along with the event. If it is, it will trigger a WARN_ON(). For strings that use "%s", it is not so easy. The string may not reside in the ring buffer but may still be valid. Strings that are static and part of the kernel proper which will not be freed for the life of the running system, are safe to dereference. But to know if it is a pointer to a static string or to something on the heap can not be determined until the event is triggered. This brings us to the second function that tests for the bad dereferencing of strings, trace_check_vprintf(). It would walk through the printf format looking for "%s", and when it finds it, it would validate that the pointer is safe to read. If not, it would produces a WARN_ON() as well and write into the ring buffer "[UNSAFE-MEMORY]". The problem with this is how it used va_list to have vsnprintf() handle all the cases that it didn't need to check. Instead of re-implementing vsnprintf(), it would make a copy of the format up to the %s part, and call vsnprintf() with the current va_list ap variable, where the ap would then be ready to point at the string in question. For architectures that passed va_list by reference this was possible. For architectures that passed it by copy it was not. A test_can_verify() function was used to differentiate between the two, and if it wasn't possible, it would disable it. Even for architectures where this was feasible, it was a stretch to rely on such a method that is undocumented, and could cause issues later on with new optimizations of the compiler. Instead, the first function test_event_printk() was updated to look at "%s" as well. If the "%s" argument is a pointer outside the event in the ring buffer, it would find the field type of the event that is the problem and mark the structure with a new flag called "needs_test". The event itself will be marked by TRACE_EVENT_FL_TEST_STR to let it be known that this event has a field that needs to be verified before the event can be printed using the printf format. When the event fields are created from the field type structure, the fields would copy the field type's "needs_test" value. Finally, before being printed, a new function ignore_event() is called which will check if the event has the TEST_STR flag set (if not, it returns false). If the flag is set, it then iterates through the events fields looking for the ones that have the "needs_test" flag set. Then it uses the offset field from the field structure to find the pointer in the ring buffer event. It runs the tests to make sure that pointer is safe to print and if not, it triggers the WARN_ON() and also adds to the trace output that the event in question has an unsafe memory access. The ignore_event() makes the trace_check_vprintf() obsolete so it is removed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wh3uOnqnZPpR0PeLZZtyWbZLboZ7cHLCKRWsocvs9Y7hQ@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Al Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.848621576@goodmis.org Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)