Hi, There are 3 points about this bug: 1) The onmax_destroy() destroyed the onmax var, casusing a double-free error flagged by KASAN. This is tested via "./ftracetest test.d/trigger/inter-event/trigger-onmatch-onmax-action-hist.tc". ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in destroy_hist_field+0x1c2/0x200 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800a4ad100 by task ftracetest/4731 CPU: 0 PID: 4731 Comm: ftracetest Kdump: loaded Tainted: GE 4.19.90-89 #77 Source Version: Unknown Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0 Call Trace: dump_stack+0xcb/0x10b print_address_description.cold+0x54/0x249 kasan_report_error.cold+0x63/0xab ? destroy_hist_field+0x1c2/0x200 ? hist_trigger_elt_data_alloc+0x5a0/0x5a0 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x8d/0xa0 ? destroy_hist_field+0x1c2/0x200 destroy_hist_field+0x1c2/0x200 onmax_destroy+0x72/0x1e0 ? hist_trigger_elt_data_alloc+0x5a0/0x5a0 destroy_hist_data+0x236/0xa40 event_hist_trigger_free+0x212/0x2f0 ? update_cond_flag+0x128/0x170 ? event_hist_trigger_func+0x2880/0x2880 hist_unregister_trigger+0x2f2/0x4f0 event_hist_trigger_func+0x168c/0x2880 ? tracing_map_cmp_u64+0xa0/0xa0 ? onmatch_create.constprop.0+0xf50/0xf50 ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10 event_trigger_write+0x2f4/0x490 ? trigger_start+0x180/0x180 ? __fget_light+0x369/0x5d0 ? count_memcg_event_mm+0x104/0x2b0 ? trigger_start+0x180/0x180 __vfs_write+0x81/0x100 vfs_write+0x1e1/0x540 ksys_write+0x12a/0x290 ? __ia32_sys_read+0xb0/0xb0 ? __close_fd+0x1d3/0x280 do_syscall_64+0xe3/0x2d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x5c/0xc1 RIP: 0033:0x7fd7f4c44e04 Code: 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8d 05 39 34 0c 00 8b 00 85 c0 75 13 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 f3 c3 66 90 41 54 55 49 89 d4 53 48 89 f5 RSP: 002b:00007fff10370df8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000010f RCX: 00007fd7f4c44e04 RDX: 000000000000010f RSI: 000055fa765df650 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 000055fa765df650 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 000000000000000a R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fd7f4d035c0 R13: 000000000000010f R14: 00007fd7f4d037c0 R15: 000000000000010f ================================================================== 2) So remove the onmax_destroy() destroy_hist_field() call for that var. just like this demo patch: diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c index 7dcb96305e56..58b8a2575b8c 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c @@ -3489,7 +3488,6 @@ static void onmax_destroy(struct action_data *data) unsigned int i; destroy_hist_field(data->onmax.max_var, 0); - destroy_hist_field(data->onmax.var, 0); kfree(data->onmax.var_str); kfree(data->onmax.fn_name); -- 3) And I found it has been fixed by upstream commit ff9d31d0d466. So I am backporting these patches to linux-4.19.y. Masami Hiramatsu (4): tracing: Simplify creation and deletion of synthetic events tracing: Add unified dynamic event framework tracing: Use dyn_event framework for synthetic events tracing: Remove unneeded synth_event_mutex Steven Rostedt (VMware) (5): tracing: Consolidate trace_add/remove_event_call back to the nolock functions string.h: Add str_has_prefix() helper function tracing: Use str_has_prefix() helper for histogram code tracing: Use str_has_prefix() instead of using fixed sizes tracing: Have the historgram use the result of str_has_prefix() for len of prefix Tom Zanussi (4): tracing: Refactor hist trigger action code tracing: Split up onmatch action data tracing: Generalize hist trigger onmax and save action tracing: Remove unnecessary var_ref destroy in track_data_destroy() include/linux/string.h | 20 + include/linux/trace_events.h | 2 - kernel/trace/Kconfig | 4 + kernel/trace/Makefile | 1 + kernel/trace/trace.c | 26 +- kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c | 210 ++++++ kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.h | 119 ++++ kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 32 +- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 1048 ++++++++++++++++++------------ kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_stack.c | 2 +- 11 files changed, 1008 insertions(+), 458 deletions(-) create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.h -- 2.34.1