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Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:40:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([196.207.164.177]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-48317d2bab2sm232209295e9.3.2026.02.06.05.40.57 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:40:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 16:40:54 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Miaoqian Lin Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel Subject: [bug report] tracing: Properly process error handling in event_hist_trigger_parse() Message-ID: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: [ Smatch checking is paused while we raise funding. #SadFace https://lore.kernel.org/all/aTaiGSbWZ9DJaGo7@stanley.mountain/ -dan ] Hello Miaoqian Lin, Commit 0550069cc25f ("tracing: Properly process error handling in event_hist_trigger_parse()") from Dec 11, 2025 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6925 event_hist_trigger_parse() error: we previously assumed 'trigger_data' could be null (see line 6856) kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c 6855 trigger_data = trigger_data_alloc(cmd_ops, cmd, param, hist_data); 6856 if (!trigger_data) { 6857 ret = -ENOMEM; 6858 goto out_free; trigger_data is NULL here. 6859 } 6860 6861 ret = event_trigger_set_filter(cmd_ops, file, filter, trigger_data); 6862 if (ret < 0) 6863 goto out_free; 6864 6865 if (remove) { 6866 if (!have_hist_trigger_match(trigger_data, file)) 6867 goto out_free; 6868 6869 if (hist_trigger_check_refs(trigger_data, file)) { 6870 ret = -EBUSY; 6871 goto out_free; 6872 } 6873 6874 event_trigger_unregister(cmd_ops, file, glob+1, trigger_data); 6875 se_name = trace_event_name(file->event_call); 6876 se = find_synth_event(se_name); 6877 if (se) 6878 se->ref--; 6879 ret = 0; 6880 goto out_free; 6881 } 6882 6883 if (existing_hist_update_only(glob, trigger_data, file)) 6884 goto out_free; 6885 6886 if (!get_named_trigger_data(trigger_data)) { 6887 6888 ret = create_actions(hist_data); 6889 if (ret) 6890 goto out_free; 6891 6892 if (has_hist_vars(hist_data) || hist_data->n_var_refs) { 6893 ret = save_hist_vars(hist_data); 6894 if (ret) 6895 goto out_free; 6896 } 6897 6898 ret = tracing_map_init(hist_data->map); 6899 if (ret) 6900 goto out_free; 6901 } 6902 6903 ret = event_trigger_register(cmd_ops, file, glob, trigger_data); 6904 if (ret < 0) 6905 goto out_free; 6906 6907 ret = hist_trigger_enable(trigger_data, file); 6908 if (ret) 6909 goto out_unreg; 6910 6911 se_name = trace_event_name(file->event_call); 6912 se = find_synth_event(se_name); 6913 if (se) 6914 se->ref++; 6915 out: 6916 if (ret == 0 && glob[0]) 6917 hist_err_clear(); 6918 6919 return ret; 6920 out_unreg: 6921 event_trigger_unregister(cmd_ops, file, glob+1, trigger_data); 6922 out_free: 6923 remove_hist_vars(hist_data); 6924 --> 6925 trigger_data_free(trigger_data); Originally this was kfree(trigger_data) so passing a NULL pointer was fine, but now it will crash. 6926 6927 destroy_hist_data(hist_data); 6928 goto out; 6929 } 6930 6931 static struct event_command trigger_hist_cmd = { 6932 .name = "hist", 6933 .trigger_type = ETT_EVENT_HIST, 6934 .flags = EVENT_CMD_FL_NEEDS_REC, 6935 .parse = event_hist_trigger_parse, regards, dan carpenter