ftrace: Check module functions being traced on reload
commit 8c4f3c3f upstream. There's been a nasty bug that would show up and not give much info. The bug displayed the following warning: WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1529 __ftrace_hash_rec_update+0x1e3/0x230() Pid: 20903, comm: bash Tainted: G O 3.6.11+ #38405.trunk Call Trace: [<ffffffff8103e5ff>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8103e65a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff810c2ee3>] __ftrace_hash_rec_update+0x1e3/0x230 [<ffffffff810c4f28>] ftrace_hash_move+0x28/0x1d0 [<ffffffff811401cc>] ? kfree+0x2c/0x110 [<ffffffff810c68ee>] ftrace_regex_release+0x8e/0x150 [<ffffffff81149f1e>] __fput+0xae/0x220 [<ffffffff8114a09e>] ____fput+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff8105fa22>] task_work_run+0x72/0x90 [<ffffffff810028ec>] do_notify_resume+0x6c/0xc0 [<ffffffff8126596e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [<ffffffff815c0f88>] int_signal+0x12/0x17 ---[ end trace 793179526ee09b2c ]--- It was finally narrowed down to unloading a module that was being traced. It was actually more than that. When functions are being traced, there's a table of all functions that have a ref count of the number of active tracers attached to that function. When a function trace callback is registered to a function, the function's record ref count is incremented. When it is unregistered, the function's record ref count is decremented. If an inconsistency is detected (ref count goes below zero) the above warning is shown and the function tracing is permanently disabled until reboot. The ftrace callback ops holds a hash of functions that it filters on (and/or filters off). If the hash is empty, the default means to filter all functions (for the filter_hash) or to disable no functions (for the notrace_hash). When a module is unloaded, it frees the function records that represent the module functions. These records exist on their own pages, that is function records for one module will not exist on the same page as function records for other modules or even the core kernel. Now when a module unloads, the records that represents its functions are freed. When the module is loaded again, the records are recreated with a default ref count of zero (unless there's a callback that traces all functions, then they will also be traced, and the ref count will be incremented). The problem is that if an ftrace callback hash includes functions of the module being unloaded, those hash entries will not be removed. If the module is reloaded in the same location, the hash entries still point to the functions of the module but the module's ref counts do not reflect that. With the help of Steve and Joern, we found a reproducer: Using uinput module and uinput_release function. cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing modprobe uinput echo uinput_release > set_ftrace_filter echo function > current_tracer rmmod uinput modprobe uinput # check /proc/modules to see if loaded in same addr, otherwise try again echo nop > current_tracer [BOOM] The above loads the uinput module, which creates a table of functions that can be traced within the module. We add uinput_release to the filter_hash to trace just that function. Enable function tracincg, which increments the ref count of the record associated to uinput_release. Remove uinput, which frees the records including the one that represents uinput_release. Load the uinput module again (and make sure it's at the same address). This recreates the function records all with a ref count of zero, including uinput_release. Disable function tracing, which will decrement the ref count for uinput_release which is now zero because of the module removal and reload, and we have a mismatch (below zero ref count). The solution is to check all currently tracing ftrace callbacks to see if any are tracing any of the module's functions when a module is loaded (it already does that with callbacks that trace all functions). If a callback happens to have a module function being traced, it increments that records ref count and starts tracing that function. There may be a strange side effect with this, where tracing module functions on unload and then reloading a new module may have that new module's functions being traced. This may be something that confuses the user, but it's not a big deal. Another approach is to disable all callback hashes on module unload, but this leaves some ftrace callbacks that may not be registered, but can still have hashes tracing the module's function where ftrace doesn't know about it. That situation can cause the same bug. This solution solves that case too. Another benefit of this solution, is it is possible to trace a module's function on unload and load. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130705142629.GA325@redhat.comReported-by:Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> Reported-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reported-by:
Steve Hodgson <steve@purestorage.com> Tested-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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