This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints
to the 3.4-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-do-not-add-event-files-for-modules-that-fail-tracepoints.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 45ab2813d40d88fc575e753c38478de242d03f88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:37:38 -0500
Subject: tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints
From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 45ab2813d40d88fc575e753c38478de242d03f88 upstream.
If a module fails to add its tracepoints due to module tainting, do not
create the module event infrastructure in the debugfs directory. As the events
will not work and worse yet, they will silently fail, making the user wonder
why the events they enable do not display anything.
Having a warning on module load and the events not visible to the users
will make the cause of the problem much clearer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140227154923.265882695@xxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 6d723736e472 "tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT"
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/tracepoint.h | 6 ++++++
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 10 ++++++++++
kernel/tracepoint.c | 7 ++++++-
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ struct tp_module {
unsigned int num_tracepoints;
struct tracepoint * const *tracepoints_ptrs;
};
+bool trace_module_has_bad_taint(struct module *mod);
+#else
+static inline bool trace_module_has_bad_taint(struct module *mod)
+{
+ return false;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
struct tracepoint_iter {
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -1354,6 +1354,16 @@ static void trace_module_add_events(stru
struct ftrace_module_file_ops *file_ops = NULL;
struct ftrace_event_call **call, **start, **end;
+ if (!mod->num_trace_events)
+ return;
+
+ /* Don't add infrastructure for mods without tracepoints */
+ if (trace_module_has_bad_taint(mod)) {
+ pr_err("%s: module has bad taint, not creating trace events\n",
+ mod->name);
+ return;
+ }
+
start = mod->trace_events;
end = mod->trace_events + mod->num_trace_events;
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -628,6 +628,11 @@ void tracepoint_iter_reset(struct tracep
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tracepoint_iter_reset);
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+bool trace_module_has_bad_taint(struct module *mod)
+{
+ return mod->taints & ~((1 << TAINT_OOT_MODULE) | (1 << TAINT_CRAP));
+}
+
static int tracepoint_module_coming(struct module *mod)
{
struct tp_module *tp_mod, *iter;
@@ -638,7 +643,7 @@ static int tracepoint_module_coming(stru
* module headers (for forced load), to make sure we don't cause a crash.
* Staging and out-of-tree GPL modules are fine.
*/
- if (mod->taints & ~((1 << TAINT_OOT_MODULE) | (1 << TAINT_CRAP)))
+ if (trace_module_has_bad_taint(mod))
return 0;
mutex_lock(&tracepoints_mutex);
tp_mod = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tp_module), GFP_KERNEL);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/tracing-do-not-add-event-files-for-modules-that-fail-tracepoints.patch
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