From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 2/4] tracing: Do not register unsupported perf events
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:55:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251218135517.182085932@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20251218135504.301981830@kernel.org
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Synthetic events currently do not have a function to register perf events.
This leads to calling the tracepoint register functions with a NULL
function pointer which triggers:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: kernel/tracepoint.c:175 at tracepoint_add_func+0x357/0x370, CPU#2: perf/2272
Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 2272 Comm: perf Not tainted 6.18.0-ftest-11964-ge022764176fc-dirty #323 PREEMPTLAZY
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:tracepoint_add_func+0x357/0x370
Code: 28 9c e8 4c 0b f5 ff eb 0f 4c 89 f7 48 c7 c6 80 4d 28 9c e8 ab 89 f4 ff 31 c0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc <0f> 0b 49 c7 c6 ea ff ff ff e9 ee fe ff ff 0f 0b e9 f9 fe ff ff 0f
RSP: 0018:ffffabc0c44d3c40 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9380aa9e4060 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000000a RSI: ffffffff9e1d4a98 RDI: ffff937fcf5fd6c8
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: ffff937fcf5fc780
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffff9c193910 R12: 000000000000000a
R13: ffffffff9e1e5888 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffabc0c44d3c78
FS: 00007f6202f5f340(0000) GS:ffff93819f00f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055d3162281a8 CR3: 0000000106a56003 CR4: 0000000000172ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
tracepoint_probe_register+0x5d/0x90
synth_event_reg+0x3c/0x60
perf_trace_event_init+0x204/0x340
perf_trace_init+0x85/0xd0
perf_tp_event_init+0x2e/0x50
perf_try_init_event+0x6f/0x230
? perf_event_alloc+0x4bb/0xdc0
perf_event_alloc+0x65a/0xdc0
__se_sys_perf_event_open+0x290/0x9f0
do_syscall_64+0x93/0x7b0
? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
? trace_hardirqs_off+0x53/0xc0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Instead, have the code return -ENODEV, which doesn't warn and has perf
error out with:
# perf record -e synthetic:futex_wait
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 19 (No such device) for event (synthetic:futex_wait).
"dmesg | grep -i perf" may provide additional information.
Ideally perf should support synthetic events, but for now just fix the
warning. The support can come later.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216182440.147e4453@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 4b147936fa509 ("tracing: Add support for 'synthetic' events")
Reported-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index b16a5a158040..76067529db61 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -700,6 +700,8 @@ int trace_event_reg(struct trace_event_call *call,
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
case TRACE_REG_PERF_REGISTER:
+ if (!call->class->perf_probe)
+ return -ENODEV;
return tracepoint_probe_register(call->tp,
call->class->perf_probe,
call);
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-18 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-18 13:55 [for-linus][PATCH 0/4] tracing: Fixes for v6.19 Steven Rostedt
2025-12-18 13:55 ` [for-linus][PATCH 1/4] MAINTAINERS: add tracepoint core-api doc files to TRACING Steven Rostedt
2025-12-18 13:55 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2025-12-18 13:55 ` [for-linus][PATCH 3/4] tracing: Fix UBSAN warning in __remove_instance() Steven Rostedt
2025-12-18 13:55 ` [for-linus][PATCH 4/4] ftrace: Fix address for jmp mode in t_show() Steven Rostedt
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