kernel.git/kernel/trace/trace.c, branch linux-rolling-lts

tracing: Fix trace_buf_size= cmdline parameter with sizes >= 2G

2026-03-19T15:08:42Z

commit d008ba8be8984760e36d7dcd4adbd5a41a645708 upstream. Some of the sizing logic through tracer_alloc_buffers() uses int internally, causing unexpected behavior if the user passes a value that does not fit in an int (on my x86 machine, the result is uselessly tiny buffers). Fix by plumbing the parameter's real type (unsigned long) through to the ring buffer allocation functions, which already use unsigned long. It has always been possible to create larger ring buffers via the sysfs interface: this only affects the cmdline parameter. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Link: https://patch.msgid.link/bff42a4288aada08bdf74da3f5b67a2c28b761f8.1772852067.git.calvin@wbinvd.org Fixes: 73c5162aa362 ("tracing: keep ring buffer to minimum size till used") Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close

2026-03-12T11:09:41Z

commit e39bb9e02b68942f8e9359d2a3efe7d37ae6be0e upstream. When a process forks, the child process copies the parent's VMAs but the user_mapped reference count is not incremented. As a result, when both the parent and child processes exit, tracing_buffers_mmap_close() is called twice. On the second call, user_mapped is already 0, causing the function to return -ENODEV and triggering a WARN_ON. Normally, this isn't an issue as the memory is mapped with VM_DONTCOPY set. But this is only a hint, and the application can call madvise(MADVISE_DOFORK) which resets the VM_DONTCOPY flag. When the application does that, it can trigger this issue on fork. Fix it by incrementing the user_mapped reference count without re-mapping the pages in the VMA's open callback. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Vincent Donnefort Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227025842.1085206-1-wangqing7171@gmail.com Fixes: cf9f0f7c4c5bb ("tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer") Reported-by: syzbot+3b5dd2030fe08afdf65d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3b5dd2030fe08afdf65d Tested-by: syzbot+3b5dd2030fe08afdf65d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Qing Wang Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Reset last_boot_info if ring buffer is reset

2026-03-04T12:21:28Z

[ Upstream commit 804c4a2209bcf6ed4c45386f033e4d0f7c5bfda5 ] Commit 32dc0042528d ("tracing: Reset last-boot buffers when reading out all cpu buffers") resets the last_boot_info when user read out all data via trace_pipe* files. But it is not reset when user resets the buffer from other files. (e.g. write `trace` file) Reset it when the corresponding ring buffer is reset too. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177071302364.2293046.17895165659153977720.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Fixes: 32dc0042528d ("tracing: Reset last-boot buffers when reading out all cpu buffers") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tracing: Fix to set write permission to per-cpu buffer_size_kb

2026-03-04T12:21:28Z

[ Upstream commit f844282deed7481cf2f813933229261e27306551 ] Since the per-cpu buffer_size_kb file is writable for changing per-cpu ring buffer size, the file should have the write access permission. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177071301597.2293046.11683339475076917920.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Fixes: 21ccc9cd7211 ("tracing: Disable "other" permission bits in the tracefs files") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tracing: Avoid possible signed 64-bit truncation

2026-02-11T12:41:53Z

[ Upstream commit 00f13e28a9c3acd40f0551cde7e9d2d1a41585bf ] 64-bit truncation to 32-bit can result in the sign of the truncated value changing. The cmp_mod_entry is used in bsearch and so the truncation could result in an invalid search order. This would only happen were the addresses more than 2GB apart and so unlikely, but let's fix the potentially broken compare anyway. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108002625.333331-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

trace: ftrace_dump_on_oops[] is not exported, make it static

2026-01-17T15:35:29Z

[ Upstream commit 1e2ed4bfd50ace3c4272cfab7e9aa90956fb7ae0 ] The ftrace_dump_on_oops string is not used outside of trace.c so make it static to avoid the export warning from sparse: kernel/trace/trace.c:141:6: warning: symbol 'ftrace_dump_on_oops' was not declared. Should it be static? Fixes: dd293df6395a2 ("tracing: Move trace sysctls into trace.c") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106231054.84270-1-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tracing: Add recursion protection in kernel stack trace recording

2026-01-17T15:35:12Z

commit 5f1ef0dfcb5b7f4a91a9b0e0ba533efd9f7e2cdb upstream. A bug was reported about an infinite recursion caused by tracing the rcu events with the kernel stack trace trigger enabled. The stack trace code called back into RCU which then called the stack trace again. Expand the ftrace recursion protection to add a set of bits to protect events from recursion. Each bit represents the context that the event is in (normal, softirq, interrupt and NMI). Have the stack trace code use the interrupt context to protect against recursion. Note, the bug showed an issue in both the RCU code as well as the tracing stacktrace code. This only handles the tracing stack trace side of the bug. The RCU fix will be handled separately. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260102122807.7025fc87@gandalf.local.home/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Boqun Feng Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260105203141.515cd49f@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Yao Kai Tested-by: Yao Kai Fixes: 5f5fa7ea89dc ("rcu: Don't use negative nesting depth in __rcu_read_unlock()") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close for split VMAs

2025-11-25T20:21:16Z

When a VMA is split (e.g., by partial munmap or MAP_FIXED), the kernel calls vm_ops->close on each portion. For trace buffer mappings, this results in ring_buffer_unmap() being called multiple times while ring_buffer_map() was only called once. This causes ring_buffer_unmap() to return -ENODEV on subsequent calls because user_mapped is already 0, triggering a WARN_ON. Trace buffer mappings cannot support partial mappings because the ring buffer structure requires the complete buffer including the meta page. Fix this by adding a may_split callback that returns -EINVAL to prevent VMA splits entirely. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: cf9f0f7c4c5bb ("tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119064019.25904-1-kartikey406@gmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a72c325b042aae6403c7 Tested-by: syzbot+a72c325b042aae6403c7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+a72c325b042aae6403c7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

Merge tag 'trace-v6.18-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2025-10-11T23:06:04Z

Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "The previous fix to trace_marker required updating trace_marker_raw as well. The difference between trace_marker_raw from trace_marker is that the raw version is for applications to write binary structures directly into the ring buffer instead of writing ASCII strings. This is for applications that will read the raw data from the ring buffer and get the data structures directly. It's a bit quicker than using the ASCII version. Unfortunately, it appears that our test suite has several tests that test writes to the trace_marker file, but lacks any tests to the trace_marker_raw file (this needs to be remedied). Two issues came about the update to the trace_marker_raw file that syzbot found: - Fix tracing_mark_raw_write() to use per CPU buffer The fix to use the per CPU buffer to copy from user space was needed for both the trace_maker and trace_maker_raw file. The fix for reading from user space into per CPU buffers properly fixed the trace_marker write function, but the trace_marker_raw file wasn't fixed properly. The user space data was correctly written into the per CPU buffer, but the code that wrote into the ring buffer still used the user space pointer and not the per CPU buffer that had the user space data already written. - Stop the fortify string warning from writing into trace_marker_raw After converting the copy_from_user_nofault() into a memcpy(), another issue appeared. As writes to the trace_marker_raw expects binary data, the first entry is a 4 byte identifier. The entry structure is defined as: struct { struct trace_entry ent; int id; char buf[]; }; The size of this structure is reserved on the ring buffer with: size = sizeof(*entry) + cnt; Then it is copied from the buffer into the ring buffer with: memcpy(&entry->id, buf, cnt); This use to be a copy_from_user_nofault(), but now converting it to a memcpy() triggers the fortify-string code, and causes a warning. The allocated space is actually more than what is copied, as the cnt used also includes the entry->id portion. Allocating sizeof(*entry) plus cnt is actually allocating 4 bytes more than what is needed. Change the size function to: size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id)); And update the memcpy() to unsafe_memcpy()" * tag 'trace-v6.18-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: tracing: Stop fortify-string from warning in tracing_mark_raw_write() tracing: Fix tracing_mark_raw_write() to use buf and not ubuf

tracing: Stop fortify-string from warning in tracing_mark_raw_write()

2025-10-11T15:27:27Z

The way tracing_mark_raw_write() records its data is that it has the following structure: struct { struct trace_entry; int id; char buf[]; }; But memcpy(&entry->id, buf, size) triggers the following warning when the size is greater than the id: ------------[ cut here ]------------ memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 6) of single field "&entry->id" at kernel/trace/trace.c:7458 (size 4) WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 995 at kernel/trace/trace.c:7458 write_raw_marker_to_buffer.isra.0+0x1f9/0x2e0 Modules linked in: CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 995 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.17.0-test-00007-g60b82183e78a-dirty #211 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:write_raw_marker_to_buffer.isra.0+0x1f9/0x2e0 Code: 04 00 75 a7 b9 04 00 00 00 48 89 de 48 89 04 24 48 c7 c2 e0 b1 d1 b2 48 c7 c7 40 b2 d1 b2 c6 05 2d 88 6a 04 01 e8 f7 e8 bd ff <0f> 0b 48 8b 04 24 e9 76 ff ff ff 49 8d 7c 24 04 49 8d 5c 24 08 48 RSP: 0018:ffff888104c3fc78 EFLAGS: 00010292 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000006 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 1ffffffff6b363b4 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffff888100058a00 R08: ffffffffb041d459 R09: ffffed1020987f40 R10: 0000000000000007 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff888100bb9010 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000000003e3 R15: ffff888134800000 FS: 00007fa61d286740(0000) GS:ffff888286cad000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000560d28d509f1 CR3: 00000001047a4006 CR4: 0000000000172ef0 Call Trace: tracing_mark_raw_write+0x1fe/0x290 ? __pfx_tracing_mark_raw_write+0x10/0x10 ? security_file_permission+0x50/0xf0 ? rw_verify_area+0x6f/0x4b0 vfs_write+0x1d8/0xdd0 ? __pfx_vfs_write+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_css_rstat_updated+0x10/0x10 ? count_memcg_events+0xd9/0x410 ? fdget_pos+0x53/0x5e0 ksys_write+0x182/0x200 ? __pfx_ksys_write+0x10/0x10 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x4af/0xa30 do_syscall_64+0x63/0x350 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fa61d318687 Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 58 b3 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff RSP: 002b:00007ffd87fe0120 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa61d286740 RCX: 00007fa61d318687 RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 0000560d28d509f0 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 0000560d28d509f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000006 R13: 00007fa61d4715c0 R14: 00007fa61d46ee80 R15: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- This is because fortify string sees that the size of entry->id is only 4 bytes, but it is writing more than that. But this is OK as the dynamic_array is allocated to handle that copy. The size allocated on the ring buffer was actually a bit too big: size = sizeof(*entry) + cnt; But cnt includes the 'id' and the buffer data, so adding cnt to the size of *entry actually allocates too much on the ring buffer. Change the allocation to: size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id)); and the memcpy() to unsafe_memcpy() with an added justification. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Andrew Morton Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251011112032.77be18e4@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 64cf7d058a00 ("tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space") Reported-by: syzbot+9a2ede1643175f350105@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68e973f5.050a0220.1186a4.0010.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)