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[188.141.5.72]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-47f85c63bd3sm16065216f8f.27.2026.07.23.10.02.15 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:02:15 -0700 (PDT) From: David Carlier To: Steven Rostedt , Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Carlier Subject: [PATCH v2] tracing: Restore synchronize_rcu() before freeing trigger private data Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:02:12 +0100 Message-ID: <20260723170212.55325-1-devnexen@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Commit 61d445af0a7c ("tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing event_trigger_data") moved the kfree() of event_trigger_data to a kthread that runs tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() before freeing. That removed the synchronize_rcu() the trigger .free callbacks used to get implicitly and inline from trigger_data_free(). event_hist_trigger_free(), event_hist_trigger_named_free() and event_enable_trigger_free() free their satellite data (hist_data, cmd_ops, enable_data) right after trigger_data_free() returns. With the synchronize now deferred to the kthread, a concurrent tracepoint handler can still reach that data through the list_del_rcu()'d trigger, causing a use-after-free. The teardown must also stay synchronous for correctness: the histogram cleanup (remove_hist_vars(), unregister_field_var_hists()) has to detach a synthetic event from the histogram before the trigger-removal write returns. Deferring it lets a following command race in and fail the synthetic-event removal with -EBUSY, as caught by tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/trigger/inter-event/trigger-synthetic-eprobe.tc. Call synchronize_rcu() directly before freeing the satellite data instead. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Fixes: 61d445af0a7c ("tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing event_trigger_data") Signed-off-by: David Carlier --- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 3 +++ kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c index 82ce492ab268..ddd2f70dac4f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c @@ -6349,6 +6349,8 @@ static void event_hist_trigger_free(struct event_trigger_data *data) trigger_data_free(data); + synchronize_rcu(); + remove_hist_vars(hist_data); unregister_field_var_hists(hist_data); @@ -6388,6 +6390,7 @@ static void event_hist_trigger_named_free(struct event_trigger_data *data) del_named_trigger(data); trigger_data_free(data); + synchronize_rcu(); kfree(cmd_ops); } } diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c index 655db2e82513..c3f54f2540b6 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c @@ -1730,6 +1730,7 @@ void event_enable_trigger_free(struct event_trigger_data *data) trace_event_enable_disable(enable_data->file, 0, 1); trace_event_put_ref(enable_data->file->event_call); trigger_data_free(data); + synchronize_rcu(); kfree(enable_data); } } -- 2.53.0