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 5.15-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-.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 929153db87153eccdddcaa3fa8ca51a644dda458 Author: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Sep 6 22:47:16 2023 -0400 tracing: Have event inject files inc the trace array ref count [ Upstream commit e5c624f027ac74f97e97c8f36c69228ac9f1102d ] 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: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_inject.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_inject.c index c188045c5f976..b1fce64e126c0 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_inject.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_inject.c @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ event_inject_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, } 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, };