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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 3b13911a2f tracing: Synthetic event field_pos is an index not a boolean
Performing the following:

 ># echo 'wakeup_lat s32 pid; u64 delta; char wake_comm[]' > synthetic_events
 ># echo 'hist:keys=pid:__arg__1=common_timestamp.usecs' > events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
 ># echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:pid=next_pid,delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$__arg__1:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wakeup_lat,$pid,$delta,prev_comm)'\
      > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
 ># echo 1 > events/synthetic/enable

Crashed the kernel:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001b
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-test+ #104
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v03.03 07/14/2016
 RIP: 0010:strlen+0x0/0x20
 Code: f6 82 80 2b 0b bc 20 74 11 0f b6 50 01 48 83 c0 01 f6 82 80 2b 0b bc
  20 75 ef c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 <80> 3f 00 74 10
  48 89 f8 48 83 c0 01 80 38 9 f8 c3 31
 RSP: 0018:ffffaa75000d79d0 EFLAGS: 00010046
 RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff9cdb55575270 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: ffff9cdb58c7a320 RSI: ffffaa75000d7b40 RDI: 000000000000001b
 RBP: ffffaa75000d7b40 R08: ffff9cdb40a4f010 R09: ffffaa75000d7ab8
 R10: ffff9cdb4398c700 R11: 0000000000000008 R12: ffff9cdb58c7a320
 R13: ffff9cdb55575270 R14: ffff9cdb58c7a000 R15: 0000000000000018
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9cdb5aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000000000001b CR3: 00000000c0612006 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  trace_event_raw_event_synth+0x90/0x1d0
  action_trace+0x5b/0x70
  event_hist_trigger+0x4bd/0x4e0
  ? cpumask_next_and+0x20/0x30
  ? update_sd_lb_stats.constprop.0+0xf6/0x840
  ? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x125/0x550
  ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90
  ? sched_clock_cpu+0xe/0xd0
  ? lock_release+0x155/0x440
  ? update_load_avg+0x8c/0x6f0
  ? enqueue_entity+0x18a/0x920
  ? __rb_reserve_next+0xe5/0x460
  ? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
  event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0
  trace_event_buffer_commit+0x1ae/0x240
  trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch+0x114/0x170
  __traceiter_sched_switch+0x39/0x50
  __schedule+0x431/0xb00
  schedule_idle+0x28/0x40
  do_idle+0x198/0x2e0
  cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20
  secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xc2/0xcb

The reason is that the dynamic events array keeps track of the field
position of the fields array, via the field_pos variable in the
synth_field structure. Unfortunately, that field is a boolean for some
reason, which means any field_pos greater than 1 will be a bug (in this
case it was 2).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721191008.638bce34@oasis.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bd82631d7c ("tracing: Add support for dynamic strings to synthetic events")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-07-23 08:43:04 -04:00
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trace tracing: Synthetic event field_pos is an index not a boolean 2021-07-23 08:43:04 -04:00
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