Re: selftests: user_events: ftrace_test - RIP: 0010:tracing_update_buffers (kernel/trace/trace.c:6470)

Steven Rostedt
2023-10-28T02:33:53Z

On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:36:40 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:20:11 -0700
> Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 05:38:41PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > Following kernel crash noticed on x86_64 while running selftests: user_events:
> > > ftrace_test running 6.6.0-rc7-next-20231026.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> > >
> > > kselftest: Running tests in user_events
> > > TAP version 13
> > > 1..4
> > > # timeout set to 90
> > > # selftests: user_events: ftrace_test
> > > [ 2391.606817] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical
> > > address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b8a83: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
> > > [ 2391.617519] CPU: 1 PID: 34662 Comm: ftrace_test Not tainted
> > > 6.6.0-rc7-next-20231026 #1
> > > [ 2391.625428] Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-5019S-ML/X11SSH-F, BIOS
> > > 2.7 12/07/2021
> > > [ 2391.632811] RIP: 0010:tracing_update_buffers (kernel/trace/trace.c:6470)
> > > [ 2391.637952] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 66 0f 1f 00
> > > 55 31 f6 48 89 e5 41 55 41 54 53 48 89 fb 48 c7 c7 40 8c 61 94 e8 92
> > > d3 5a 01 <44> 0f b6 a3 18 1f 00 00 41 80 fc 01 0f 87 c8 dc 4e 01 45 31
>
>
>
> > Warning is from this code:
> > static void __trace_array_put(struct trace_array *this_tr)
> > {
> > WARN_ON(!this_tr->ref);
> > this_tr->ref--;
> > }
> >
> > It seems like there might be a timing window or an incorrect call to
> > trace_array_put() somewhere. Do you think this is related to the eventfs
> > work?
>
> No, I think this is was probably introduced by:
>
> a1f157c7a3bb ("tracing: Expand all ring buffers individually")
>
> Or possibly a mixture of the two changes? But anyway I think I need to look
> at this one first.

Not sure if the bug Beau hit is the same as this one, but the one Beau
hit I think is fixed by this:

-- Steve

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index 4d2da7480e5f..4a54493b8419 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ create_file_dentry(struct eventfs_inode *ei, struct dentry **e_dentry,
bool invalidate = false;

mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
+ if (ei->is_freed) {
+ mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);
+ return NULL;
+ }
/* If the e_dentry already has a dentry, use it */
if (*e_dentry) {
/* lookup does not need to up the ref count */