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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.18-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-10-11T23:06:04+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-11T23:06:04+00:00</published>
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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(&amp;entry-&gt;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-&gt;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-&gt;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
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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(&amp;entry-&gt;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-&gt;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-&gt;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
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<title>tracing: Stop fortify-string from warning in tracing_mark_raw_write()</title>
<updated>2025-10-11T15:27:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-11T15:20:32+00:00</published>
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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(&amp;entry-&gt;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 "&amp;entry-&gt;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 &lt;0f&gt; 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:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  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 &lt;5b&gt; 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
  &lt;/TASK&gt;
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

This is because fortify string sees that the size of entry-&gt;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-&gt;id));

and the memcpy() to unsafe_memcpy() with an added justification.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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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(&amp;entry-&gt;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 "&amp;entry-&gt;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 &lt;0f&gt; 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:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  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 &lt;5b&gt; 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
  &lt;/TASK&gt;
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

This is because fortify string sees that the size of entry-&gt;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-&gt;id));

and the memcpy() to unsafe_memcpy() with an added justification.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix tracing_mark_raw_write() to use buf and not ubuf</title>
<updated>2025-10-11T03:58:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-11T03:51:42+00:00</published>
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The fix to use a per CPU buffer to read user space tested only the writes
to trace_marker. But it appears that the selftests are missing tests to
the trace_maker_raw file. The trace_maker_raw file is used by applications
that writes data structures and not strings into the file, and the tools
read the raw ring buffer to process the structures it writes.

The fix that reads the per CPU buffers passes the new per CPU buffer to
the trace_marker file writes, but the update to the trace_marker_raw write
read the data from user space into the per CPU buffer, but then still used
then passed the user space address to the function that records the data.

Pass in the per CPU buffer and not the user space address.

TODO: Add a test to better test trace_marker_raw.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251011035243.386098147@kernel.org
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) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The fix to use a per CPU buffer to read user space tested only the writes
to trace_marker. But it appears that the selftests are missing tests to
the trace_maker_raw file. The trace_maker_raw file is used by applications
that writes data structures and not strings into the file, and the tools
read the raw ring buffer to process the structures it writes.

The fix that reads the per CPU buffers passes the new per CPU buffer to
the trace_marker file writes, but the update to the trace_marker_raw write
read the data from user space into the per CPU buffer, but then still used
then passed the user space address to the function that records the data.

Pass in the per CPU buffer and not the user space address.

TODO: Add a test to better test trace_marker_raw.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251011035243.386098147@kernel.org
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) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-10-09T19:18:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T19:18:22+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing clean up and fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Have osnoise tracer use memdup_user_nul()

   The function osnoise_cpus_write() open codes a kmalloc() and then a
   copy_from_user() and then adds a nul byte at the end which is the
   same as simply using memdup_user_nul().

 - Fix wakeup and irq tracers when failing to acquire calltime

   When the wakeup and irq tracers use the function graph tracer for
   tracing function times, it saves a timestamp into the fgraph shadow
   stack. It is possible that this could fail to be stored. If that
   happens, it exits the routine early. These functions also disable
   nesting of the operations by incremeting the data "disable" counter.
   But if the calltime exits out early, it never increments the counter
   back to what it needs to be.

   Since there's only a couple of lines of code that does work after
   acquiring the calltime, instead of exiting out early, reverse the if
   statement to be true if calltime is acquired, and place the code that
   is to be done within that if block. The clean up will always be done
   after that.

 - Fix ring_buffer_map() return value on failure of __rb_map_vma()

   If __rb_map_vma() fails in ring_buffer_map(), it does not return an
   error. This means the caller will be working against a bad vma
   mapping. Have ring_buffer_map() return an error when __rb_map_vma()
   fails.

 - Fix regression of writing to the trace_marker file

   A bug fix was made to change __copy_from_user_inatomic() to
   copy_from_user_nofault() in the trace_marker write function. The
   trace_marker file is used by applications to write into it (usually
   with a file descriptor opened at the start of the program) to record
   into the tracing system. It's usually used in critical sections so
   the write to trace_marker is highly optimized.

   The reason for copying in an atomic section is that the write
   reserves space on the ring buffer and then writes directly into it.
   After it writes, it commits the event. The time between reserve and
   commit must have preemption disabled.

   The trace marker write does not have any locking nor can it allocate
   due to the nature of it being a critical path.

   Unfortunately, converting __copy_from_user_inatomic() to
   copy_from_user_nofault() caused a regression in Android. Now all the
   writes from its applications trigger the fault that is rejected by
   the _nofault() version that wasn't rejected by the _inatomic()
   version. Instead of getting data, it now just gets a trace buffer
   filled with:

     tracing_mark_write: &lt;faulted&gt;

   To fix this, on opening of the trace_marker file, allocate per CPU
   buffers that can be used by the write call. Then when entering the
   write call, do the following:

     preempt_disable();
     cpu = smp_processor_id();
     buffer = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_buffers, cpu);
     do {
 	cnt = nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu);
 	migrate_disable();
 	preempt_enable();
 	ret = copy_from_user(buffer, ptr, size);
 	preempt_disable();
 	migrate_enable();
     } while (!ret &amp;&amp; cnt != nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu));
     if (!ret)
 	ring_buffer_write(buffer);
     preempt_enable();

   This works similarly to seqcount. As it must enabled preemption to do
   a copy_from_user() into a per CPU buffer, if it gets preempted, the
   buffer could be corrupted by another task.

   To handle this, read the number of context switches of the current
   CPU, disable migration, enable preemption, copy the data from user
   space, then immediately disable preemption again. If the number of
   context switches is the same, the buffer is still valid. Otherwise it
   must be assumed that the buffer may have been corrupted and it needs
   to try again.

   Now the trace_marker write can get the user data even if it has to
   fault it in, and still not grab any locks of its own.

* tag 'trace-v6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space
  ring buffer: Propagate __rb_map_vma return value to caller
  tracing: Fix irqoff tracers on failure of acquiring calltime
  tracing: Fix wakeup tracers on failure of acquiring calltime
  tracing/osnoise: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user_nul
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Pull tracing clean up and fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Have osnoise tracer use memdup_user_nul()

   The function osnoise_cpus_write() open codes a kmalloc() and then a
   copy_from_user() and then adds a nul byte at the end which is the
   same as simply using memdup_user_nul().

 - Fix wakeup and irq tracers when failing to acquire calltime

   When the wakeup and irq tracers use the function graph tracer for
   tracing function times, it saves a timestamp into the fgraph shadow
   stack. It is possible that this could fail to be stored. If that
   happens, it exits the routine early. These functions also disable
   nesting of the operations by incremeting the data "disable" counter.
   But if the calltime exits out early, it never increments the counter
   back to what it needs to be.

   Since there's only a couple of lines of code that does work after
   acquiring the calltime, instead of exiting out early, reverse the if
   statement to be true if calltime is acquired, and place the code that
   is to be done within that if block. The clean up will always be done
   after that.

 - Fix ring_buffer_map() return value on failure of __rb_map_vma()

   If __rb_map_vma() fails in ring_buffer_map(), it does not return an
   error. This means the caller will be working against a bad vma
   mapping. Have ring_buffer_map() return an error when __rb_map_vma()
   fails.

 - Fix regression of writing to the trace_marker file

   A bug fix was made to change __copy_from_user_inatomic() to
   copy_from_user_nofault() in the trace_marker write function. The
   trace_marker file is used by applications to write into it (usually
   with a file descriptor opened at the start of the program) to record
   into the tracing system. It's usually used in critical sections so
   the write to trace_marker is highly optimized.

   The reason for copying in an atomic section is that the write
   reserves space on the ring buffer and then writes directly into it.
   After it writes, it commits the event. The time between reserve and
   commit must have preemption disabled.

   The trace marker write does not have any locking nor can it allocate
   due to the nature of it being a critical path.

   Unfortunately, converting __copy_from_user_inatomic() to
   copy_from_user_nofault() caused a regression in Android. Now all the
   writes from its applications trigger the fault that is rejected by
   the _nofault() version that wasn't rejected by the _inatomic()
   version. Instead of getting data, it now just gets a trace buffer
   filled with:

     tracing_mark_write: &lt;faulted&gt;

   To fix this, on opening of the trace_marker file, allocate per CPU
   buffers that can be used by the write call. Then when entering the
   write call, do the following:

     preempt_disable();
     cpu = smp_processor_id();
     buffer = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_buffers, cpu);
     do {
 	cnt = nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu);
 	migrate_disable();
 	preempt_enable();
 	ret = copy_from_user(buffer, ptr, size);
 	preempt_disable();
 	migrate_enable();
     } while (!ret &amp;&amp; cnt != nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu));
     if (!ret)
 	ring_buffer_write(buffer);
     preempt_enable();

   This works similarly to seqcount. As it must enabled preemption to do
   a copy_from_user() into a per CPU buffer, if it gets preempted, the
   buffer could be corrupted by another task.

   To handle this, read the number of context switches of the current
   CPU, disable migration, enable preemption, copy the data from user
   space, then immediately disable preemption again. If the number of
   context switches is the same, the buffer is still valid. Otherwise it
   must be assumed that the buffer may have been corrupted and it needs
   to try again.

   Now the trace_marker write can get the user data even if it has to
   fault it in, and still not grab any locks of its own.

* tag 'trace-v6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space
  ring buffer: Propagate __rb_map_vma return value to caller
  tracing: Fix irqoff tracers on failure of acquiring calltime
  tracing: Fix wakeup tracers on failure of acquiring calltime
  tracing/osnoise: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user_nul
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<title>tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space</title>
<updated>2025-10-09T01:50:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-08T16:45:10+00:00</published>
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It was reported that using __copy_from_user_inatomic() can actually
schedule. Which is bad when preemption is disabled. Even though there's
logic to check in_atomic() is set, but this is a nop when the kernel is
configured with PREEMPT_NONE. This is due to page faulting and the code
could schedule with preemption disabled.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250819105152.2766363-1-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com/

The solution was to change the __copy_from_user_inatomic() to
copy_from_user_nofault(). But then it was reported that this caused a
regression in Android. There's several applications writing into
trace_marker() in Android, but now instead of showing the expected data,
it is showing:

  tracing_mark_write: &lt;faulted&gt;

After reverting the conversion to copy_from_user_nofault(), Android was
able to get the data again.

Writes to the trace_marker is a way to efficiently and quickly enter data
into the Linux tracing buffer. It takes no locks and was designed to be as
non-intrusive as possible. This means it cannot allocate memory, and must
use pre-allocated data.

A method that is actively being worked on to have faultable system call
tracepoints read user space data is to allocate per CPU buffers, and use
them in the callback. The method uses a technique similar to seqcount.
That is something like this:

	preempt_disable();
	cpu = smp_processor_id();
	buffer = this_cpu_ptr(&amp;pre_allocated_cpu_buffers, cpu);
	do {
		cnt = nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu);
		migrate_disable();
		preempt_enable();
		ret = copy_from_user(buffer, ptr, size);
		preempt_disable();
		migrate_enable();
	} while (!ret &amp;&amp; cnt != nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu));

	if (!ret)
		ring_buffer_write(buffer);
	preempt_enable();

It's a little more involved than that, but the above is the basic logic.
The idea is to acquire the current CPU buffer, disable migration, and then
enable preemption. At this moment, it can safely use copy_from_user().
After reading the data from user space, it disables preemption again. It
then checks to see if there was any new scheduling on this CPU. If there
was, it must assume that the buffer was corrupted by another task. If
there wasn't, then the buffer is still valid as only tasks in preemptable
context can write to this buffer and only those that are running on the
CPU.

By using this method, where trace_marker open allocates the per CPU
buffers, trace_marker writes can access user space and even fault it in,
without having to allocate or take any locks of its own.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Luo Gengkun &lt;luogengkun@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Cc: Wattson CI &lt;wattson-external@google.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251008124510.6dba541a@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 3d62ab32df065 ("tracing: Fix tracing_marker may trigger page fault during preempt_disable")
Reported-by: Runping Lai &lt;runpinglai@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Runping Lai &lt;runpinglai@google.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20251007003417.3470979-2-runpinglai@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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It was reported that using __copy_from_user_inatomic() can actually
schedule. Which is bad when preemption is disabled. Even though there's
logic to check in_atomic() is set, but this is a nop when the kernel is
configured with PREEMPT_NONE. This is due to page faulting and the code
could schedule with preemption disabled.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250819105152.2766363-1-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com/

The solution was to change the __copy_from_user_inatomic() to
copy_from_user_nofault(). But then it was reported that this caused a
regression in Android. There's several applications writing into
trace_marker() in Android, but now instead of showing the expected data,
it is showing:

  tracing_mark_write: &lt;faulted&gt;

After reverting the conversion to copy_from_user_nofault(), Android was
able to get the data again.

Writes to the trace_marker is a way to efficiently and quickly enter data
into the Linux tracing buffer. It takes no locks and was designed to be as
non-intrusive as possible. This means it cannot allocate memory, and must
use pre-allocated data.

A method that is actively being worked on to have faultable system call
tracepoints read user space data is to allocate per CPU buffers, and use
them in the callback. The method uses a technique similar to seqcount.
That is something like this:

	preempt_disable();
	cpu = smp_processor_id();
	buffer = this_cpu_ptr(&amp;pre_allocated_cpu_buffers, cpu);
	do {
		cnt = nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu);
		migrate_disable();
		preempt_enable();
		ret = copy_from_user(buffer, ptr, size);
		preempt_disable();
		migrate_enable();
	} while (!ret &amp;&amp; cnt != nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu));

	if (!ret)
		ring_buffer_write(buffer);
	preempt_enable();

It's a little more involved than that, but the above is the basic logic.
The idea is to acquire the current CPU buffer, disable migration, and then
enable preemption. At this moment, it can safely use copy_from_user().
After reading the data from user space, it disables preemption again. It
then checks to see if there was any new scheduling on this CPU. If there
was, it must assume that the buffer was corrupted by another task. If
there wasn't, then the buffer is still valid as only tasks in preemptable
context can write to this buffer and only those that are running on the
CPU.

By using this method, where trace_marker open allocates the per CPU
buffers, trace_marker writes can access user space and even fault it in,
without having to allocate or take any locks of its own.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Luo Gengkun &lt;luogengkun@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Cc: Wattson CI &lt;wattson-external@google.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251008124510.6dba541a@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 3d62ab32df065 ("tracing: Fix tracing_marker may trigger page fault during preempt_disable")
Reported-by: Runping Lai &lt;runpinglai@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Runping Lai &lt;runpinglai@google.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20251007003417.3470979-2-runpinglai@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-fs_context' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T17:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T17:51:44+00:00</published>
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Pull fs_context updates from Al Viro:
 "Change vfs_parse_fs_string() calling conventions

  Get rid of the length argument (almost all callers pass strlen() of
  the string argument there), add vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for the cases that
  do want separate length"

* tag 'pull-fs_context' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  do_nfs4_mount(): switch to vfs_parse_fs_string()
  change the calling conventions for vfs_parse_fs_string()
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Pull fs_context updates from Al Viro:
 "Change vfs_parse_fs_string() calling conventions

  Get rid of the length argument (almost all callers pass strlen() of
  the string argument there), add vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for the cases that
  do want separate length"

* tag 'pull-fs_context' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  do_nfs4_mount(): switch to vfs_parse_fs_string()
  change the calling conventions for vfs_parse_fs_string()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Silence warning when chunk allocation fails in trace_pid_write</title>
<updated>2025-09-08T18:56:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pu Lehui</name>
<email>pulehui@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-08T02:46:58+00:00</published>
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Syzkaller trigger a fault injection warning:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12326 at tracepoint_add_func+0xbfc/0xeb0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12326 Comm: syz.6.10325 Tainted: G U 6.14.0-rc5-syzkaller #0
Tainted: [U]=USER
Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine
RIP: 0010:tracepoint_add_func+0xbfc/0xeb0 kernel/tracepoint.c:294
Code: 09 fe ff 90 0f 0b 90 0f b6 74 24 43 31 ff 41 bc ea ff ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000414fb48 EFLAGS: 00010283
RAX: 00000000000012a1 RBX: ffffffff8e240ae0 RCX: ffffc90014b78000
RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: ffffffff81bbd78b RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffffffffef
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffffff81c264f0
FS:  00007f27217f66c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2e80dff8 CR3: 00000000268f8000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 tracepoint_probe_register_prio+0xc0/0x110 kernel/tracepoint.c:464
 register_trace_prio_sched_switch include/trace/events/sched.h:222 [inline]
 register_pid_events kernel/trace/trace_events.c:2354 [inline]
 event_pid_write.isra.0+0x439/0x7a0 kernel/trace/trace_events.c:2425
 vfs_write+0x24c/0x1150 fs/read_write.c:677
 ksys_write+0x12b/0x250 fs/read_write.c:731
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

We can reproduce the warning by following the steps below:
1. echo 8 &gt;&gt; set_event_notrace_pid. Let tr-&gt;filtered_pids owns one pid
   and register sched_switch tracepoint.
2. echo ' ' &gt;&gt; set_event_pid, and perform fault injection during chunk
   allocation of trace_pid_list_alloc. Let pid_list with no pid and
assign to tr-&gt;filtered_pids.
3. echo ' ' &gt;&gt; set_event_pid. Let pid_list is NULL and assign to
   tr-&gt;filtered_pids.
4. echo 9 &gt;&gt; set_event_pid, will trigger the double register
   sched_switch tracepoint warning.

The reason is that syzkaller injects a fault into the chunk allocation
in trace_pid_list_alloc, causing a failure in trace_pid_list_set, which
may trigger double register of the same tracepoint. This only occurs
when the system is about to crash, but to suppress this warning, let's
add failure handling logic to trace_pid_list_set.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250908024658.2390398-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 8d6e90983ade ("tracing: Create a sparse bitmask for pid filtering")
Reported-by: syzbot+161412ccaeff20ce4dde@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67cb890e.050a0220.d8275.022e.GAE@google.com
Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui &lt;pulehui@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Syzkaller trigger a fault injection warning:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12326 at tracepoint_add_func+0xbfc/0xeb0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12326 Comm: syz.6.10325 Tainted: G U 6.14.0-rc5-syzkaller #0
Tainted: [U]=USER
Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine
RIP: 0010:tracepoint_add_func+0xbfc/0xeb0 kernel/tracepoint.c:294
Code: 09 fe ff 90 0f 0b 90 0f b6 74 24 43 31 ff 41 bc ea ff ff ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000414fb48 EFLAGS: 00010283
RAX: 00000000000012a1 RBX: ffffffff8e240ae0 RCX: ffffc90014b78000
RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: ffffffff81bbd78b RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffffffffef
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffffff81c264f0
FS:  00007f27217f66c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2e80dff8 CR3: 00000000268f8000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 tracepoint_probe_register_prio+0xc0/0x110 kernel/tracepoint.c:464
 register_trace_prio_sched_switch include/trace/events/sched.h:222 [inline]
 register_pid_events kernel/trace/trace_events.c:2354 [inline]
 event_pid_write.isra.0+0x439/0x7a0 kernel/trace/trace_events.c:2425
 vfs_write+0x24c/0x1150 fs/read_write.c:677
 ksys_write+0x12b/0x250 fs/read_write.c:731
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

We can reproduce the warning by following the steps below:
1. echo 8 &gt;&gt; set_event_notrace_pid. Let tr-&gt;filtered_pids owns one pid
   and register sched_switch tracepoint.
2. echo ' ' &gt;&gt; set_event_pid, and perform fault injection during chunk
   allocation of trace_pid_list_alloc. Let pid_list with no pid and
assign to tr-&gt;filtered_pids.
3. echo ' ' &gt;&gt; set_event_pid. Let pid_list is NULL and assign to
   tr-&gt;filtered_pids.
4. echo 9 &gt;&gt; set_event_pid, will trigger the double register
   sched_switch tracepoint warning.

The reason is that syzkaller injects a fault into the chunk allocation
in trace_pid_list_alloc, causing a failure in trace_pid_list_set, which
may trigger double register of the same tracepoint. This only occurs
when the system is about to crash, but to suppress this warning, let's
add failure handling logic to trace_pid_list_set.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250908024658.2390398-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 8d6e90983ade ("tracing: Create a sparse bitmask for pid filtering")
Reported-by: syzbot+161412ccaeff20ce4dde@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67cb890e.050a0220.d8275.022e.GAE@google.com
Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui &lt;pulehui@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>change the calling conventions for vfs_parse_fs_string()</title>
<updated>2025-09-04T19:20:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-28T15:37:30+00:00</published>
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Absolute majority of callers are passing the 4th argument equal to
strlen() of the 3rd one.

Drop the v_size argument, add vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for the cases that
want independent length.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Absolute majority of callers are passing the 4th argument equal to
strlen() of the 3rd one.

Drop the v_size argument, add vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for the cases that
want independent length.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix tracing_marker may trigger page fault during preempt_disable</title>
<updated>2025-09-02T16:02:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luo Gengkun</name>
<email>luogengkun@huaweicloud.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-19T10:51:52+00:00</published>
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Both tracing_mark_write and tracing_mark_raw_write call
__copy_from_user_inatomic during preempt_disable. But in some case,
__copy_from_user_inatomic may trigger page fault, and will call schedule()
subtly. And if a task is migrated to other cpu, the following warning will
be trigger:
        if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer,
                       !local_read(&amp;cpu_buffer-&gt;committing)))

An example can illustrate this issue:

process flow						CPU
---------------------------------------------------------------------

tracing_mark_raw_write():				cpu:0
   ...
   ring_buffer_lock_reserve():				cpu:0
      ...
      cpu = raw_smp_processor_id()			cpu:0
      cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu]			cpu:0
      ...
   ...
   __copy_from_user_inatomic():				cpu:0
      ...
      # page fault
      do_mem_abort():					cpu:0
         ...
         # Call schedule
         schedule()					cpu:0
	 ...
   # the task schedule to cpu1
   __buffer_unlock_commit():				cpu:1
      ...
      ring_buffer_unlock_commit():			cpu:1
	 ...
	 cpu = raw_smp_processor_id()			cpu:1
	 cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu]		cpu:1

As shown above, the process will acquire cpuid twice and the return values
are not the same.

To fix this problem using copy_from_user_nofault instead of
__copy_from_user_inatomic, as the former performs 'access_ok' before
copying.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819105152.2766363-1-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 656c7f0d2d2b ("tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing")
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun &lt;luogengkun@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Both tracing_mark_write and tracing_mark_raw_write call
__copy_from_user_inatomic during preempt_disable. But in some case,
__copy_from_user_inatomic may trigger page fault, and will call schedule()
subtly. And if a task is migrated to other cpu, the following warning will
be trigger:
        if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer,
                       !local_read(&amp;cpu_buffer-&gt;committing)))

An example can illustrate this issue:

process flow						CPU
---------------------------------------------------------------------

tracing_mark_raw_write():				cpu:0
   ...
   ring_buffer_lock_reserve():				cpu:0
      ...
      cpu = raw_smp_processor_id()			cpu:0
      cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu]			cpu:0
      ...
   ...
   __copy_from_user_inatomic():				cpu:0
      ...
      # page fault
      do_mem_abort():					cpu:0
         ...
         # Call schedule
         schedule()					cpu:0
	 ...
   # the task schedule to cpu1
   __buffer_unlock_commit():				cpu:1
      ...
      ring_buffer_unlock_commit():			cpu:1
	 ...
	 cpu = raw_smp_processor_id()			cpu:1
	 cpu_buffer = buffer-&gt;buffers[cpu]		cpu:1

As shown above, the process will acquire cpuid twice and the return values
are not the same.

To fix this problem using copy_from_user_nofault instead of
__copy_from_user_inatomic, as the former performs 'access_ok' before
copying.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819105152.2766363-1-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 656c7f0d2d2b ("tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing")
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun &lt;luogengkun@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>ftrace: Fix potential warning in trace_printk_seq during ftrace_dump</title>
<updated>2025-08-22T21:32:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tengda Wu</name>
<email>wutengda@huaweicloud.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-22T03:33:43+00:00</published>
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When calling ftrace_dump_one() concurrently with reading trace_pipe,
a WARN_ON_ONCE() in trace_printk_seq() can be triggered due to a race
condition.

The issue occurs because:

CPU0 (ftrace_dump)                              CPU1 (reader)
echo z &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger

!trace_empty(&amp;iter)
trace_iterator_reset(&amp;iter) &lt;- len = size = 0
                                                cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
trace_find_next_entry_inc(&amp;iter)
  __find_next_entry
    ring_buffer_empty_cpu &lt;- all empty
  return NULL

trace_printk_seq(&amp;iter.seq)
  WARN_ON_ONCE(s-&gt;seq.len &gt;= s-&gt;seq.size)

In the context between trace_empty() and trace_find_next_entry_inc()
during ftrace_dump, the ring buffer data was consumed by other readers.
This caused trace_find_next_entry_inc to return NULL, failing to populate
`iter.seq`. At this point, due to the prior trace_iterator_reset, both
`iter.seq.len` and `iter.seq.size` were set to 0. Since they are equal,
the WARN_ON_ONCE condition is triggered.

Move the trace_printk_seq() into the if block that checks to make sure the
return value of trace_find_next_entry_inc() is non-NULL in
ftrace_dump_one(), ensuring the 'iter.seq' is properly populated before
subsequent operations.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250822033343.3000289-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: d769041f8653 ("ring_buffer: implement new locking")
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu &lt;wutengda@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When calling ftrace_dump_one() concurrently with reading trace_pipe,
a WARN_ON_ONCE() in trace_printk_seq() can be triggered due to a race
condition.

The issue occurs because:

CPU0 (ftrace_dump)                              CPU1 (reader)
echo z &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger

!trace_empty(&amp;iter)
trace_iterator_reset(&amp;iter) &lt;- len = size = 0
                                                cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
trace_find_next_entry_inc(&amp;iter)
  __find_next_entry
    ring_buffer_empty_cpu &lt;- all empty
  return NULL

trace_printk_seq(&amp;iter.seq)
  WARN_ON_ONCE(s-&gt;seq.len &gt;= s-&gt;seq.size)

In the context between trace_empty() and trace_find_next_entry_inc()
during ftrace_dump, the ring buffer data was consumed by other readers.
This caused trace_find_next_entry_inc to return NULL, failing to populate
`iter.seq`. At this point, due to the prior trace_iterator_reset, both
`iter.seq.len` and `iter.seq.size` were set to 0. Since they are equal,
the WARN_ON_ONCE condition is triggered.

Move the trace_printk_seq() into the if block that checks to make sure the
return value of trace_find_next_entry_inc() is non-NULL in
ftrace_dump_one(), ensuring the 'iter.seq' is properly populated before
subsequent operations.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250822033343.3000289-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: d769041f8653 ("ring_buffer: implement new locking")
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu &lt;wutengda@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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