This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing: Don't display trigger file for events that can't be enabled to the 4.5-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-don-t-display-trigger-file-for-events-that-can-t-be-enabled.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 854145e0a8e9a05f7366d240e2f99d9c1ca6d6dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 19:34:34 +0800 Subject: tracing: Don't display trigger file for events that can't be enabled From: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 854145e0a8e9a05f7366d240e2f99d9c1ca6d6dd upstream. Currently register functions for events will be called through the 'reg' field of event class directly without any check when seting up triggers. Triggers for events that don't support register through debug fs (events under events/ftrace are for trace-cmd to read event format, and most of them don't have a register function except events/ftrace/functionx) can't be enabled at all, and an oops will be hit when setting up trigger for those events, so just not creating them is an easy way to avoid the oops. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462275274-3911-1-git-send-email-chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 85f2b08268c01 ("tracing: Add basic event trigger framework") Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -2095,8 +2095,13 @@ event_create_dir(struct dentry *parent, trace_create_file("filter", 0644, file->dir, file, &ftrace_event_filter_fops); - trace_create_file("trigger", 0644, file->dir, file, - &event_trigger_fops); + /* + * Only event directories that can be enabled should have + * triggers. + */ + if (!(call->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE)) + trace_create_file("trigger", 0644, file->dir, file, + &event_trigger_fops); trace_create_file("format", 0444, file->dir, call, &ftrace_event_format_fops); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/tracing-don-t-display-trigger-file-for-events-that-can-t-be-enabled.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html