FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tracing: Have traceon and traceoff trigger honor the instance" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 302e9edd54985f584cfc180098f3554774126969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:38:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Have traceon and traceoff trigger honor the instance

If a trigger is set on an event to disable or enable tracing within an
instance, then tracing should be disabled or enabled in the instance and
not at the top level, which is confusing to users.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220223223837.14f94ec3@rorschach.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ae63b31e4d0e2 ("tracing: Separate out trace events from global variables")
Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
index e0d50c9577f3..efe563140f27 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
@@ -1295,6 +1295,16 @@ traceon_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data,
 		struct trace_buffer *buffer, void *rec,
 		struct ring_buffer_event *event)
 {
+	struct trace_event_file *file = data->private_data;
+
+	if (file) {
+		if (tracer_tracing_is_on(file->tr))
+			return;
+
+		tracer_tracing_on(file->tr);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	if (tracing_is_on())
 		return;
 
@@ -1306,8 +1316,15 @@ traceon_count_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data,
 		      struct trace_buffer *buffer, void *rec,
 		      struct ring_buffer_event *event)
 {
-	if (tracing_is_on())
-		return;
+	struct trace_event_file *file = data->private_data;
+
+	if (file) {
+		if (tracer_tracing_is_on(file->tr))
+			return;
+	} else {
+		if (tracing_is_on())
+			return;
+	}
 
 	if (!data->count)
 		return;
@@ -1315,7 +1332,10 @@ traceon_count_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data,
 	if (data->count != -1)
 		(data->count)--;
 
-	tracing_on();
+	if (file)
+		tracer_tracing_on(file->tr);
+	else
+		tracing_on();
 }
 
 static void
@@ -1323,6 +1343,16 @@ traceoff_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data,
 		 struct trace_buffer *buffer, void *rec,
 		 struct ring_buffer_event *event)
 {
+	struct trace_event_file *file = data->private_data;
+
+	if (file) {
+		if (!tracer_tracing_is_on(file->tr))
+			return;
+
+		tracer_tracing_off(file->tr);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	if (!tracing_is_on())
 		return;
 
@@ -1334,8 +1364,15 @@ traceoff_count_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data,
 		       struct trace_buffer *buffer, void *rec,
 		       struct ring_buffer_event *event)
 {
-	if (!tracing_is_on())
-		return;
+	struct trace_event_file *file = data->private_data;
+
+	if (file) {
+		if (!tracer_tracing_is_on(file->tr))
+			return;
+	} else {
+		if (!tracing_is_on())
+			return;
+	}
 
 	if (!data->count)
 		return;
@@ -1343,7 +1380,10 @@ traceoff_count_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data,
 	if (data->count != -1)
 		(data->count)--;
 
-	tracing_off();
+	if (file)
+		tracer_tracing_off(file->tr);
+	else
+		tracing_off();
 }
 
 static int