This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing: Have event inject files inc the trace array ref count to the 6.1-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-have-event-inject-files-inc-the-trace-array-ref-count.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e5c624f027ac74f97e97c8f36c69228ac9f1102d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 22:47:16 -0400 Subject: tracing: Have event inject files inc the trace array ref count From: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit e5c624f027ac74f97e97c8f36c69228ac9f1102d upstream. The event inject files add events for a specific trace array. For an instance, if the file is opened and the instance is deleted, reading or writing to the file will cause a use after free. Up the ref count of the trace_array when a event inject file is opened. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907024804.292337868@xxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1cb3aee2-19af-c472-e265-05176fe9bd84@xxxxxxxxxx/ Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 6c3edaf9fd6a ("tracing: Introduce trace event injection") Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_events_inject.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_inject.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_inject.c @@ -328,7 +328,8 @@ event_inject_read(struct file *file, cha } const struct file_operations event_inject_fops = { - .open = tracing_open_generic, + .open = tracing_open_file_tr, .read = event_inject_read, .write = event_inject_write, + .release = tracing_release_file_tr, }; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/tracing-increase-trace-array-ref-count-on-enable-and-filter-files.patch queue-6.1/tracefs-add-missing-lockdown-check-to-tracefs_create_dir.patch queue-6.1/selftests-tracing-fix-to-unmount-tracefs-for-recover.patch queue-6.1/tracing-have-event-inject-files-inc-the-trace-array-ref-count.patch queue-6.1/tracing-have-current_trace-inc-the-trace-array-ref-count.patch queue-6.1/tracing-have-option-files-inc-the-trace-array-ref-count.patch queue-6.1/tracing-have-tracing_max_latency-inc-the-trace-array-ref-count.patch