This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing: Check pid filtering when creating events to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tracing-check-pid-filtering-when-creating-events.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6cb206508b621a9a0a2c35b60540e399225c8243 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 13:35:26 -0500 Subject: tracing: Check pid filtering when creating events From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6cb206508b621a9a0a2c35b60540e399225c8243 upstream. When pid filtering is activated in an instance, all of the events trace files for that instance has the PID_FILTER flag set. This determines whether or not pid filtering needs to be done on the event, otherwise the event is executed as normal. If pid filtering is enabled when an event is created (via a dynamic event or modules), its flag is not updated to reflect the current state, and the events are not filtered properly. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 3fdaf80f4a836 ("tracing: Implement event pid filtering") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -2341,12 +2341,19 @@ static struct trace_event_file * trace_create_new_event(struct trace_event_call *call, struct trace_array *tr) { + struct trace_pid_list *pid_list; struct trace_event_file *file; file = kmem_cache_alloc(file_cachep, GFP_TRACE); if (!file) return NULL; + pid_list = rcu_dereference_protected(tr->filtered_pids, + lockdep_is_held(&event_mutex)); + + if (pid_list) + file->flags |= EVENT_FILE_FL_PID_FILTER; + file->event_call = call; file->tr = tr; atomic_set(&file->sm_ref, 0); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/tracing-check-pid-filtering-when-creating-events.patch