This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
devres: Fix page faults when tracing devres from unloaded modules
to the 6.12-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:
devres-fix-page-faults-when-tracing-devres-from-unlo.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit f91adca0d339b3975bc44a23ec16f101425031bb
Author: Keita Morisaki <keyz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Sep 28 20:50:05 2024 +0800
devres: Fix page faults when tracing devres from unloaded modules
[ Upstream commit 765399553714e934a219d698953d435f4f99caa7 ]
The devres ftrace event logs the name of the devres node, which is often a
function name (e.g., "devm_work_drop") stringified by macros like
devm_add_action. Currently, ftrace stores this name as a string literal
address, which can become invalid when the module containing the string is
unloaded. This results in page faults when ftrace tries to access the name.
This behavior is problematic because the devres ftrace event is designed to
trace resource management throughout a device driver's lifecycle, including
during module unload. The event should be available even after the module
is unloaded to properly diagnose resource issues.
Fix the issue by copying the devres node name into the ftrace ring buffer
using __assign_str(), instead of storing just the address. This ensures
that ftrace can always access the name, even if the module is unloaded.
This change increases the memory usage for each of the ftrace entry by
12-16 bytes assuming the average devres node name is 20 bytes long,
depending on the size of const char *.
Note that this change does not affect anything unless all of following
conditions are met.
- CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES is enabled
- ftrace tracing is enabled
- The devres event is enabled in ftrace tracing
Fixes: 09705dcb63d2 ("devres: Enable trace events")
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Keita Morisaki <keyz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240928125005.714781-1-keyz@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/base/trace.h b/drivers/base/trace.h
index e52b6eae060dd..3b83b13a57ff1 100644
--- a/drivers/base/trace.h
+++ b/drivers/base/trace.h
@@ -24,18 +24,18 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(devres,
__field(struct device *, dev)
__field(const char *, op)
__field(void *, node)
- __field(const char *, name)
+ __string(name, name)
__field(size_t, size)
),
TP_fast_assign(
__assign_str(devname);
__entry->op = op;
__entry->node = node;
- __entry->name = name;
+ __assign_str(name);
__entry->size = size;
),
TP_printk("%s %3s %p %s (%zu bytes)", __get_str(devname),
- __entry->op, __entry->node, __entry->name, __entry->size)
+ __entry->op, __entry->node, __get_str(name), __entry->size)
);
DEFINE_EVENT(devres, devres_log,
