FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tracing: Undo the registration when enabling the histogram" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tracing: Undo the registration when enabling the histogram" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-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>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 92383cef66791a0c63a2f27755cadbdb2fbf270b
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026091612-blazer-ambiguity-e8df@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 92383cef66791a0c63a2f27755cadbdb2fbf270b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 21:44:20 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Undo the registration when enabling the histogram
 trigger fails

Commit 6f86bdeab633 ("tracing: Fix bad hist from corrupting named_triggers
list") described how a trigger that is registered but not on file->triggers
ends up freed while still on the global named_triggers list, and moved the
registration down so that hist_trigger_enable() follows it immediately. One
path still gets there. hist_trigger_enable() adds the trigger and takes it
straight back out when the event cannot be enabled:

	list_add_tail_rcu(&data->list, &file->triggers);

	update_cond_flag(file);

	if (trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(file, 1) < 0) {
		list_del_rcu(&data->list);
		update_cond_flag(file);
		ret--;
	}

so the list walk in hist_unregister_trigger() matches nothing, test stays
NULL, and the ->free() that would call del_named_trigger() is skipped.
out_unreg falls through to out_free, which frees the trigger anyway:

 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0
 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880091d3160 by task init/1
  find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0
  hist_register_trigger+0xc1/0xa00
  event_hist_trigger_parse+0x3146/0x6af0
  event_trigger_write+0xce/0x160
 Freed by task 69:
  kfree+0x154/0x420
  trigger_kthread_fn+0xfd/0x160

Leave the trigger where hist_unregister_trigger() can find it and let that
undo the registration, which is the only code that knows all of what
cmd_ops->init() took: the named list entry, the hist_pad reference, the
reference on the trigger a named histogram is shared with, and the copied
cmd_ops. It also pairs the failed trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(),
whose sm_ref and buffered event reference are otherwise left behind.

Since ->free() releases trigger_data and, for a trigger that does not share
its histogram, hist_data with it, out_unreg can no longer fall through to
out_free. For a trigger that does share, hist_register_trigger() has
already destroyed the caller's hist_data, so the fall-through was reading
freed memory there as well.

Move the enable_timestamps check in hist_unregister_trigger() above the
->free() call for the same reason: hist_data does not outlive it once the
trigger being removed is the one that owns it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 067fe038e70f ("tracing: Add variable reference handling to hist triggers")
Reported-by: Sashiko AI <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20260907092944.3950E1F00A3D@smtp.kernel.org/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907124420.607097-3-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 54c95f9bd0a3..53100287466f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -6670,11 +6670,12 @@ static int hist_trigger_enable(struct event_trigger_data *data,
 
 	update_cond_flag(file);
 
-	if (trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(file, 1) < 0) {
-		list_del_rcu(&data->list);
-		update_cond_flag(file);
+	/*
+	 * On failure the caller undoes the registration, and
+	 * hist_unregister_trigger() can only find the trigger here.
+	 */
+	if (trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(file, 1) < 0)
 		ret--;
-	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -6752,13 +6753,13 @@ static void hist_unregister_trigger(char *glob,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (test && test->cmd_ops->free)
-		test->cmd_ops->free(test);
-
 	if (hist_data->enable_timestamps) {
 		if (!hist_data->remove || test)
 			tracing_set_filter_buffering(file->tr, false);
 	}
+
+	if (test && test->cmd_ops->free)
+		test->cmd_ops->free(test);
 }
 
 static bool hist_file_check_refs(struct trace_event_file *file)
@@ -6963,6 +6964,8 @@ static int event_hist_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
 	return ret;
  out_unreg:
 	event_trigger_unregister(cmd_ops, file, glob+1, trigger_data);
+	/* The unregister frees trigger_data, skip out_free */
+	goto out;
  out_free:
 	remove_hist_vars(hist_data);
 

[PATCH 5.10.y] tracing: Undo the registration when enabling the histogram trigger fails

[Sasha Levin]

From: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 92383cef66791a0c63a2f27755cadbdb2fbf270b ]

Commit 6f86bdeab633 ("tracing: Fix bad hist from corrupting named_triggers
list") described how a trigger that is registered but not on file->triggers
ends up freed while still on the global named_triggers list, and moved the
registration down so that hist_trigger_enable() follows it immediately. One
path still gets there. hist_trigger_enable() adds the trigger and takes it
straight back out when the event cannot be enabled:

	list_add_tail_rcu(&data->list, &file->triggers);

	update_cond_flag(file);

	if (trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(file, 1) < 0) {
		list_del_rcu(&data->list);
		update_cond_flag(file);
		ret--;
	}

so the list walk in hist_unregister_trigger() matches nothing, test stays
NULL, and the ->free() that would call del_named_trigger() is skipped.
out_unreg falls through to out_free, which frees the trigger anyway:

 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0
 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880091d3160 by task init/1
  find_named_trigger+0xac/0xc0
  hist_register_trigger+0xc1/0xa00
  event_hist_trigger_parse+0x3146/0x6af0
  event_trigger_write+0xce/0x160
 Freed by task 69:
  kfree+0x154/0x420
  trigger_kthread_fn+0xfd/0x160

Leave the trigger where hist_unregister_trigger() can find it and let that
undo the registration, which is the only code that knows all of what
cmd_ops->init() took: the named list entry, the hist_pad reference, the
reference on the trigger a named histogram is shared with, and the copied
cmd_ops. It also pairs the failed trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(),
whose sm_ref and buffered event reference are otherwise left behind.

Since ->free() releases trigger_data and, for a trigger that does not share
its histogram, hist_data with it, out_unreg can no longer fall through to
out_free. For a trigger that does share, hist_register_trigger() has
already destroyed the caller's hist_data, so the fall-through was reading
freed memory there as well.

Move the enable_timestamps check in hist_unregister_trigger() above the
->free() call for the same reason: hist_data does not outlive it once the
trigger being removed is the one that owns it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 067fe038e70f ("tracing: Add variable reference handling to hist triggers")
Reported-by: Sashiko AI <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20260907092944.3950E1F00A3D@smtp.kernel.org/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907124420.607097-3-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ adapted cleanup to 5.15’s older trigger callbacks and registration order. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 32f9ab82a8810..b501b5b00bf0b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -5545,11 +5545,12 @@ static int hist_trigger_enable(struct event_trigger_data *data,
 
 	update_cond_flag(file);
 
-	if (trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(file, 1) < 0) {
-		list_del_rcu(&data->list);
-		update_cond_flag(file);
+	/*
+	 * On failure the caller undoes the registration, and
+	 * hist_unregister_trigger() can only find the trigger here.
+	 */
+	if (trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(file, 1) < 0)
 		ret--;
-	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -5628,13 +5629,13 @@ static void hist_unregister_trigger(char *glob, struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (unregistered && test->ops->free)
-		test->ops->free(test->ops, test);
-
 	if (hist_data->enable_timestamps) {
 		if (!hist_data->remove || unregistered)
 			tracing_set_time_stamp_abs(file->tr, false);
 	}
+
+	if (unregistered && test->ops->free)
+		test->ops->free(test->ops, test);
 }
 
 static bool hist_file_check_refs(struct trace_event_file *file)
@@ -5833,8 +5834,11 @@ static int event_hist_trigger_func(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
 		goto out_unreg;
 enable:
 	ret = hist_trigger_enable(trigger_data, file);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out_unreg;
+	if (ret) {
+		cmd_ops->unreg(glob+1, trigger_ops, trigger_data, file);
+		/* The unregister frees trigger_data, skip out_free */
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	se_name = trace_event_name(file->event_call);
 	se = find_synth_event(se_name);
-- 
2.53.0