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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix event format field alignments for 32 bit architectures
The fields in the event format files are used to parse the raw binary
buffer data by applications. If they are incorrect, then the
application produces garbage.
On 32 bit architectures, the function graph 64bit calltime and
rettime were off by 4bytes. That's because the actual fields are in a
packed structure but the macros used by the ftrace events did not
mark them as packed, and instead, gave them their natural alignment
which made their offsets off by 4 bytes.
There are macros to have a packed field within an embedded structure
of an event, but there's no macro for normal fields within a packed
structure of the event. The macro __field_packed() was used for the
packed embedded structure field. Rename that to __field_desc_packed()
(to match the non-packed embedded field macro __field_desc()), and
make __field_packed() for fields that are in a packed event structure
(which matches the unpacked __field() macro).
Switch the calltime and rettime fields of the function graph event to
use the new __field_packed() and this makes the offsets correct.
* tag 'trace-v6.19-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: Fix ftrace event field alignments
Pull ceph fixes from Ilya Dryomov:
"One RBD and two CephFS fixes which address potential oopses.
The RBD thing is more of a rare edge case that pops up in our CI,
while the two CephFS scenarios are regressions that were reported by
users and can be triggered trivially in normal operation. All marked
for stable"
* tag 'ceph-for-6.19-rc9' of https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client:
ceph: fix NULL pointer dereference in ceph_mds_auth_match()
ceph: fix oops due to invalid pointer for kfree() in parse_longname()
rbd: check for EOD after exclusive lock is ensured to be held
The fields of ftrace specific events (events used to save ftrace internal
events like function traces and trace_printk) are generated similarly to
how normal trace event fields are generated. That is, the fields are added
to a trace_events_fields array that saves the name, offset, size,
alignment and signness of the field. It is used to produce the output in
the format file in tracefs so that tooling knows how to parse the binary
data of the trace events.
The issue is that some of the ftrace event structures are packed. The
function graph exit event structures are one of them. The 64 bit calltime
and rettime fields end up 4 byte aligned, but the algorithm to show to
userspace shows them as 8 byte aligned.
The macros that create the ftrace events has one for embedded structure
fields. There's two macros for theses fields:
__field_desc() and __field_packed()
The difference of the latter macro is that it treats the field as packed.
Rename that field to __field_desc_packed() and create replace the
__field_packed() to be a normal field that is packed and have the calltime
and rettime use those.
This showed up on 32bit architectures for function graph time fields. It
had:
~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/ftrace/funcgraph_exit/format
[..]
field:unsigned long func; offset:8; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned int depth; offset:12; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned int overrun; offset:16; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned long long calltime; offset:24; size:8; signed:0;
field:unsigned long long rettime; offset:32; size:8; signed:0;
Notice that overrun is at offset 16 with size 4, where in the structure
calltime is at offset 20 (16 + 4), but it shows the offset at 24. That's
because it used the alignment of unsigned long long when used as a
declaration and not as a member of a structure where it would be aligned
by word size (in this case 4).
By using the proper structure alignment, the format has it at the correct
offset:
~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/ftrace/funcgraph_exit/format
[..]
field:unsigned long func; offset:8; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned int depth; offset:12; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned int overrun; offset:16; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned long long calltime; offset:20; size:8; signed:0;
field:unsigned long long rettime; offset:28; size:8; signed:0;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reported-by: "jempty.liang" <imntjempty@163.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260204113628.53faec78@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 04ae87a52074e ("ftrace: Rework event_create_dir()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260130015740.212343-1-imntjempty@163.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260202123342.2544795-1-imntjempty@163.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull dma-mapping fixes from Marek Szyprowski:
"Two minor fixes for the DMA-mapping subsystem:
- check for the rare case of the allocation failure of the global CMA
pool (Shanker Donthineni)
- avoid perf buffer overflow when tracing large scatter-gather lists
(Deepanshu Kartikey)"
* tag 'dma-mapping-6.19-2026-02-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux:
dma: contiguous: Check return value of dma_contiguous_reserve_area()
tracing/dma: Cap dma_map_sg tracepoint arrays to prevent buffer overflow
The CephFS kernel client has regression starting from 6.18-rc1.
We have issue in ceph_mds_auth_match() if fs_name == NULL:
const char fs_name = mdsc->fsc->mount_options->mds_namespace;
...
if (auth->match.fs_name && strcmp(auth->match.fs_name, fs_name)) {
/ fsname mismatch, try next one */
return 0;
}
Patrick Donnelly suggested that: In summary, we should definitely start
decoding `fs_name` from the MDSMap and do strict authorizations checks
against it. Note that the `-o mds_namespace=foo` should only be used for
selecting the file system to mount and nothing else. It's possible
no mds_namespace is specified but the kernel will mount the only
file system that exists which may have name "foo".
This patch reworks ceph_mdsmap_decode() and namespace_equals() with
the goal of supporting the suggested concept. Now struct ceph_mdsmap
contains m_fs_name field that receives copy of extracted FS name
by ceph_extract_encoded_string(). For the case of "old" CephFS file
systems, it is used "cephfs" name.
[ idryomov: replace redundant %*pE with %s in ceph_mdsmap_decode(),
get rid of a series of strlen() calls in ceph_namespace_match(),
drop changes to namespace_equals() body to avoid treating empty
mds_namespace as equal, drop changes to ceph_mdsc_handle_fsmap()
as namespace_equals() isn't an equivalent substitution there ]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 22c73d52a6d0 ("ceph: fix multifs mds auth caps issue")
Link: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/73886
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@ibm.com>
Tested-by: Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
When realloc() fails in add_string(), the function returns -1 but leaves
*vals pointing to the previously allocated memory. This can cause memory
leaks in callers like make_trace_array() that return on error without
freeing the partially built array.
Fix this by freeing *vals and setting it to NULL when realloc() fails.
This makes the error handling self-contained in add_string() so callers
don't need to handle cleanup on failure.
This bug is found by my static analysis tool and my code review.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: e30f8e61e2518 ("tracing: Add a tracepoint verification check at build time")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119114542.1714405-1-geoffreyhe2@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Weigang He <geoffreyhe2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull iommu fix from Joerg Roedel:
- Fix wrong definition of PASID_FLAG_PWSNP bit. This caused DMAR errors
on Arrow Lake platforms.
* tag 'iommu-fix-v6.19-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iommu/linux:
iommu/vt-d: Treat PAGE_SNOOP and PWSNP separately
Commit 8f1fc1bf1a3d ("dma: contiguous: Reserve default CMA heap")
introduced a bug where dma_heap_cma_register_heap() is called with
a NULL pointer when dma_contiguous_reserve_area() fails to reserve
the CMA area.
When dma_contiguous_reserve_area() fails, dma_contiguous_default_area
remains NULL (initialized as a global variable), but the code doesn't
check the return value and proceeds to call dma_heap_cma_register_heap()
with this NULL pointer.
Later during boot, add_cma_heaps() iterates through the dma_areas[]
array and attempts to register heaps. When it encounters the NULL
pointer stored by the earlier call, it crashes in __add_cma_heap()
-> dma_heap_add() when trying to dereference the NULL CMA pointer.
The crash manifests as:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000000000000038
...
Call trace:
dma_heap_add+0x40/0x2b0
__add_cma_heap+0x80/0xe0
add_cma_heaps+0x64/0xb0
do_one_initcall+0x60/0x318
kernel_init_freeable+0x260/0x2f0
kernel_init+0x2c/0x168
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Fix this by checking the return value of dma_contiguous_reserve_area()
and only calling dma_heap_cma_register_heap() when the reservation
succeeds.
Fixes: 8f1fc1bf1a3d ("dma: contiguous: Reserve default CMA heap")
Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260129181317.2429196-1-sdonthineni@nvidia.com
This fixes a kernel oops when reading ceph snapshot directories (.snap),
for example by simply running `ls /mnt/my_ceph/.snap`.
The variable str is guarded by __free(kfree), but advanced by one for
skipping the initial '_' in snapshot names. Thus, kfree() is called
with an invalid pointer. This patch removes the need for advancing the
pointer so kfree() is called with correct memory pointer.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Create snapshots on a cephfs volume (I've 63 snaps in my testcase)
2. Add cephfs mount to fstab
$ echo "samba-fileserver@.files=/volumes/datapool/stuff/3461082b-ecc9-4e82-8549-3fd2590d3fb6 /mnt/test/stuff ceph acl,noatime,_netdev 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
3. Reboot the system
$ systemctl reboot
4. Check if it's really mounted
$ mount | grep stuff
5. List snapshots (expected 63 snapshots on my system)
$ ls /mnt/test/stuff/.snap
Now ls hangs forever and the kernel log shows the oops.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 101841c38346 ("[ceph] parse_longname(): strrchr() expects NUL-terminated string")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220807
Suggested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vogelbacher <daniel@chaospixel.com>
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
When funcgraph-args and funcgraph-retaddr are both enabled, many kernel
functions display invalid parameters in trace logs.
The issue occurs because print_graph_retval() passes a mismatched args
pointer to print_function_args(). Fix this by retrieving the correct
args pointer using the FGRAPH_ENTRY_ARGS() macro.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112021601.1300479-1-dolinux.peng@gmail.com
Fixes: f83ac7544fbf ("function_graph: Enable funcgraph-args and funcgraph-retaddr to work simultaneously")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <pengdonglin@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull pmdomain fixes from Ulf Hansson:
- imx:
- Fix system wakeup support for imx8mp power domains
- Fix potential out-of-range access for imx8m power domains
- Fix the imx8mm gpu hang
- qcom: Fix off-by-one error for highest state in rpmpd
* tag 'pmdomain-v6.19-rc3-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/linux-pm:
pmdomain: imx8mp-blk-ctrl: Keep usb phy power domain on for system wakeup
pmdomain: imx8mp-blk-ctrl: Keep gpc power domain on for system wakeup
pmdomain: imx8m-blk-ctrl: fix out-of-range access of bc->domains
pmdomain: imx: gpcv2: Fix the imx8mm gpu hang due to wrong adb400 reset
pmdomain: qcom: rpmpd: fix off-by-one error in clamping to the highest state
The PASID_FLAG_PAGE_SNOOP and PASID_FLAG_PWSNP constants are identical.
This will cause the pasid code to always set both or neither of the
PGSNP and PWSNP bits in PASID table entries. However, PWSNP is a
reserved bit if SMPWC is not set in the IOMMU's extended capability
register, even if SC is supported.
This has resulted in DMAR errors when testing the iommufd code on an
Arrow Lake platform. With this patch, those errors disappear and the
PASID table entries look correct.
Fixes: 101a2854110fa ("iommu/vt-d: Follow PT_FEAT_DMA_INCOHERENT into the PASID entry")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Viktor Kleen <viktor@kleen.org>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260202192109.1665799-1-viktor@kleen.org
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
The dma_map_sg tracepoint can trigger a perf buffer overflow when
tracing large scatter-gather lists. With devices like virtio-gpu
creating large DRM buffers, nents can exceed 1000 entries, resulting
in:
phys_addrs: 1000 * 8 bytes = 8,000 bytes
dma_addrs: 1000 * 8 bytes = 8,000 bytes
lengths: 1000 * 4 bytes = 4,000 bytes
Total: ~20,000 bytes
This exceeds PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE (8192 bytes), causing:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5497 at kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:405
perf buffer not large enough, wanted 24620, have 8192
Cap all three dynamic arrays at 128 entries using min() in the array
size calculation. This ensures arrays are only as large as needed
(up to the cap), avoiding unnecessary memory allocation for small
operations while preventing overflow for large ones.
The tracepoint now records the full nents/ents counts and a truncated
flag so users can see when data has been capped.
Changes in v2:
- Use min(nents, DMA_TRACE_MAX_ENTRIES) for dynamic array sizing
instead of fixed DMA_TRACE_MAX_ENTRIES allocation (feedback from
Steven Rostedt)
- This allocates only what's needed up to the cap, avoiding waste
for small operations
Reported-by: syzbot+28cea38c382fd15e751a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=28cea38c382fd15e751a
Tested-by: syzbot+28cea38c382fd15e751a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <Kartikey406@gmail.com>
Reviwed-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260130155215.69737-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
Similar to commit 870611e4877e ("rbd: get snapshot context after
exclusive lock is ensured to be held"), move the "beyond EOD" check
into the image request state machine so that it's performed after
exclusive lock is ensured to be held. This avoids various race
conditions which can arise when the image is shrunk under I/O (in
practice, mostly readahead). In one such scenario
rbd_assert(objno < rbd_dev->object_map_size);
can be triggered if a close-to-EOD read gets queued right before the
shrink is initiated and the EOD check is performed against an outdated
mapping_size. After the resize is done on the server side and exclusive
lock is (re)acquired bringing along the new (now shrunk) object map, the
read starts going through the state machine and rbd_obj_may_exist() gets
invoked on an object that is out of bounds of rbd_dev->object_map array.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dongsheng Yang <dongsheng.yang@linux.dev>
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 <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108002625.333331-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull gpio fixes from Bartosz Golaszewski:
- fix incorrect retval check in gpio-loongson-64bit
- fix GPIO counting with ACPI
* tag 'gpio-fixes-for-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux:
gpio: loongson-64bit: Fix incorrect NULL check after devm_kcalloc()
gpiolib: acpi: Fix gpio count with string references
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