From 5f1ef0dfcb5b7f4a91a9b0e0ba533efd9f7e2cdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 20:31:41 -0500 Subject: tracing: Add recursion protection in kernel stack trace recording 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) --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 6f2148df14d9..aef9058537d5 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -3012,6 +3012,11 @@ static void __ftrace_trace_stack(struct trace_array *tr, struct ftrace_stack *fstack; struct stack_entry *entry; int stackidx; + int bit; + + bit = trace_test_and_set_recursion(_THIS_IP_, _RET_IP_, TRACE_EVENT_START); + if (bit < 0) + return; /* * Add one, for this function and the call to save_stack_trace() @@ -3080,6 +3085,7 @@ static void __ftrace_trace_stack(struct trace_array *tr, /* Again, don't let gcc optimize things here */ barrier(); __this_cpu_dec(ftrace_stack_reserve); + trace_clear_recursion(bit); } static inline void ftrace_trace_stack(struct trace_array *tr, -- cgit v1.2.3