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From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/4] tracing: Fix checking of freed trace_event_file for hist files
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:41:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260216134247.1311631-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260216134247.1311631-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com>

The event_hist_open() and event_hist_poll() functions currently retrieve
a trace_event_file pointer from a file struct by invoking
event_file_data(), which simply returns file->f_inode->i_private. The
functions then check if the pointer is NULL to determine whether the event
is still valid. This approach is flawed because i_private is assigned when
an eventfs inode is allocated and remains set throughout its lifetime.
Instead, the code should call event_file_file(), which checks for
EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED. Using the incorrect access function may result in the
code potentially opening a hist file for an event that is being removed or
becoming stuck while polling on this file.

A related issue is that although event_hist_poll() attempts to verify
whether an event file is being removed, this check may not occur or could
be unnecessarily delayed. This happens because hist_poll_wakeup() is
currently invoked only from event_hist_trigger() when a hist command is
triggered. If the event file is being removed, no associated hist command
will be triggered and a waiter will be woken up only after an unrelated
hist command is triggered.

Fix these issues by changing the access method to event_file_file() and
adding a call to hist_poll_wakeup() in remove_event_file_dir() after
setting the EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED flag. This ensures that a task polling on
a hist file is woken up and receives EPOLLERR.

Fixes: 1bd13edbbed6 ("tracing/hist: Add poll(POLLIN) support on hist file")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/trace_events.h     | 5 +++++
 kernel/trace/trace_events.c      | 3 +++
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/trace_events.h b/include/linux/trace_events.h
index 3690221ba3d8..f925034e402d 100644
--- a/include/linux/trace_events.h
+++ b/include/linux/trace_events.h
@@ -683,6 +683,11 @@ static inline void hist_poll_wakeup(void)
 
 #define hist_poll_wait(file, wait)	\
 	poll_wait(file, &hist_poll_wq, wait)
+
+#else
+static inline void hist_poll_wakeup(void)
+{
+}
 #endif
 
 #define __TRACE_EVENT_FLAGS(name, value)				\
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 137b4d9bb116..e8ed6ba155cf 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -1295,6 +1295,9 @@ static void remove_event_file_dir(struct trace_event_file *file)
 	free_event_filter(file->filter);
 	file->flags |= EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED;
 	event_file_put(file);
+
+	/* Wake up hist poll waiters to notice the EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED flag. */
+	hist_poll_wakeup();
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index c97bb2fda5c0..744c2aa3d668 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -5778,7 +5778,7 @@ static __poll_t event_hist_poll(struct file *file, struct poll_table_struct *wai
 
 	guard(mutex)(&event_mutex);
 
-	event_file = event_file_data(file);
+	event_file = event_file_file(file);
 	if (!event_file)
 		return EPOLLERR;
 
@@ -5816,7 +5816,7 @@ static int event_hist_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 
 	guard(mutex)(&event_mutex);
 
-	event_file = event_file_data(file);
+	event_file = event_file_file(file);
 	if (!event_file) {
 		ret = -ENODEV;
 		goto err;
-- 
2.52.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-16 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-16 13:41 [PATCH v2 0/4] Clean up access to trace_event_file from a file struct Petr Pavlu
2026-02-16 13:41 ` Petr Pavlu [this message]
2026-02-17 15:29   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] tracing: Fix checking of freed trace_event_file for hist files Steven Rostedt
2026-02-19  0:01     ` Steven Rostedt
2026-02-16 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] tracing: Remove unnecessary check for EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED Petr Pavlu
2026-02-16 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] tracing: Clean up access to trace_event_file from a file pointer Petr Pavlu
2026-02-16 13:42 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] tracing: Free up file->private_data for use by individual events Petr Pavlu

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