linux/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c, branch v5.17

eprobes: Remove redundant event type information

2022-02-25T17:07:01Z

Currently, the event probes save the type of the event they are attached to when recording the event. For example: # echo 'e:switch sched/sched_switch prev_state=$prev_state prev_prio=$prev_prio next_pid=$next_pid next_prio=$next_prio' > dynamic_events # cat events/eprobes/switch/format name: switch ID: 1717 format: field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1; field:unsigned int __probe_type; offset:8; size:4; signed:0; field:u64 prev_state; offset:12; size:8; signed:0; field:u64 prev_prio; offset:20; size:8; signed:0; field:u64 next_pid; offset:28; size:8; signed:0; field:u64 next_prio; offset:36; size:8; signed:0; print fmt: "(%u) prev_state=0x%Lx prev_prio=0x%Lx next_pid=0x%Lx next_prio=0x%Lx", REC->__probe_type, REC->prev_state, REC->prev_prio, REC->next_pid, REC->next_prio The __probe_type adds 4 bytes to every event. One of the reasons for creating eprobes is to limit what is traced in an event to be able to limit what is written into the ring buffer. Having this redundant 4 bytes to every event takes away from this. The event that is recorded can be retrieved from the event probe itself, that is available when the trace is happening. For user space tools, it could simply read the dynamic_event file to find the event they are for. So there is really no reason to write this information into the ring buffer for every event. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220218190057.2f5a19a8@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Remove ops param from event_command reg()/unreg() callbacks

2022-01-10T16:09:11Z

The event_trigger_ops for an event_command are already accessible via event_trigger_data.ops so remove the redundant ops from the callback. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c6f2a41820452f9cacddc7634ad442928aa2aa6.1641823001.git.zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Change event_trigger_ops func() to trigger()

2022-01-10T16:09:10Z

The name of the func() callback on event_trigger_ops is too generic and is easily confused with other callbacks with that name, so change it to something that reflects its actual purpose. In this case, the main purpose of the callback is to implement an event trigger, so call it trigger() instead. Also add some more documentation to event_trigger_ops describing the callbacks a bit better. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36ab812e3ee74ee03ae0043fda41a858ee728c00.1641823001.git.zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Change event_command func() to parse()

2022-01-10T16:09:10Z

The name of the func() callback on event_command is too generic and is easily confused with other callbacks with that name, so change it to something that reflects its actual purpose. In this case, the main purpose of the callback is to parse an event command, so call it parse() instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7784e321840752ed88aac0b349c0c685fc9247b1.1641823001.git.zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Have eprobes use filtering logic of trace events

2021-12-06T20:37:22Z

The eprobes open code the reserving of the event on the ring buffer for ftrace instead of using the ftrace event wrappers, which means that it doesn't get affected by the filters, breaking the filtering logic on user space. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211130024319.068451680@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Fix misspelling of "missing"

2021-10-29T13:54:14Z

My snake instinct was on and I wrote "misssing" instead of "missing". Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Do not warn when connecting eprobe to non existing event

2021-10-28T01:47:55Z

When the syscall trace points are not configured in, the kselftests for ftrace will try to attach an event probe (eprobe) to one of the system call trace points. This triggered a WARNING, because the failure only expects to see memory issues. But this is not the only failure. The user may attempt to attach to a non existent event, and the kernel must not warn about it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027120854.0680aa0f@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 7491e2c442781 ("tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Fix event probe removal from dynamic events

2021-10-13T23:26:57Z

When an event probe is to be removed via the API that created it via the dynamic events, an -ENOENT error is returned. This is because the removal of the event probe does not expect to see the event system and name that the event probe is attached to, even though that's part of the API to create it. As the removal of probes is to use the same API as they are created. In fact, the removal is not consistent with the kprobes and uprobes removal. Fix that by allowing various ways to remove the eprobe. The eprobe is created with: e:[GROUP/]NAME SYSTEM/EVENT [OPTIONS] Have it get removed by echoing in the following into dynamic_events: # Remove all eprobes with NAME echo '-:NAME' >> dynamic_events # Remove a specific eprobe echo '-:GROUP/NAME' >> dynamic_events echo '-:GROUP/NAME SYSTEM/EVENT' >> dynamic_events echo '-:NAME SYSTEM/EVENT' >> dynamic_events echo '-:GROUP/NAME SYSTEM/EVENT OPTIONS' >> dynamic_events echo '-:NAME SYSTEM/EVENT OPTIONS' >> dynamic_events Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211012081925.0e19cc4f@gandalf.local.home Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211013205533.630722129@goodmis.org Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Fixes: 7491e2c442781 ("tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Fix memory leak in eprobe_register()

2021-10-11T02:26:55Z

kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xffff900a70ec7ec0 (size 32): comm "ftracetest", pid 2770, jiffies 4295042510 (age 311.464s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): c8 31 23 45 0a 90 ff ff 40 85 c7 6e 0a 90 ff ff .1#E....@..n.... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<000000009d3751fd>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2a2/0x440 [<0000000088b8124b>] eprobe_register+0x1e3/0x350 [<000000002a9a0517>] __ftrace_event_enable_disable+0x7c/0x240 [<0000000019109321>] event_enable_write+0x93/0xe0 [<000000007d85b320>] vfs_write+0xb9/0x260 [<00000000b94c5e41>] ksys_write+0x67/0xe0 [<000000005a08c81d>] __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20 [<00000000240bf576>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 [<0000000043d5d9f6>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae unreferenced object 0xffff900a56bbf280 (size 128): comm "ftracetest", pid 2770, jiffies 4295042510 (age 311.464s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ................ 80 69 3b b2 ff ff ff ff 20 69 3b b2 ff ff ff ff .i;..... i;..... backtrace: [<000000009d3751fd>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2a2/0x440 [<00000000c4e90fad>] eprobe_register+0x1fc/0x350 [<000000002a9a0517>] __ftrace_event_enable_disable+0x7c/0x240 [<0000000019109321>] event_enable_write+0x93/0xe0 [<000000007d85b320>] vfs_write+0xb9/0x260 [<00000000b94c5e41>] ksys_write+0x67/0xe0 [<000000005a08c81d>] __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20 [<00000000240bf576>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 [<0000000043d5d9f6>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae In new_eprobe_trigger(), allocated edata and trigger variables are never freed. To fix, free memory in disable_eprobe(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008071802.GA2098@cosmos Fixes: 7491e2c442781 ("tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events") Signed-off-by: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Fix some alloc_event_probe() error handling bugs

2021-09-08T00:58:23Z

There are two bugs in this code. First, if the kzalloc() fails it leads to a NULL dereference of "ep" on the next line. Second, if the alloc_event_probe() function returns an error then it leads to an error pointer dereference in the caller. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210824115150.GI31143@kili Fixes: 7491e2c44278 ("tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)