Commit e70f5ee4 authored Jul 22, 2025 by Steven Rostedt Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Aug 28, 2025

tracing: Add down_write(trace_event_sem) when adding trace event



[ Upstream commit b5e8acc14dcb314a9b61ff19dcd9fdd0d88f70df ]

When a module is loaded, it adds trace events defined by the module. It
may also need to modify the modules trace printk formats to replace enum
names with their values.

If two modules are loaded at the same time, the adding of the event to the
ftrace_events list can corrupt the walking of the list in the code that is
modifying the printk format strings and crash the kernel.

The addition of the event should take the trace_event_sem for write while
it adds the new event.

Also add a lockdep_assert_held() on that semaphore in
__trace_add_event_dirs() as it iterates the list.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250718223158.799bfc0c@batman.local.home


Reported-by: Fusheng Huang(黄富生) <Fusheng.Huang@luxshare-ict.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250717105007.46ccd18f@batman.local.home/


Fixes: 110bf2b7 ("tracing: add protection around module events unload")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent b25dad54

kernel/trace/trace_events.c

+5 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2109,7 +2109,10 @@ __register_event(struct trace_event_call call, struct module mod)
		if (ret < 0)
		return ret;

		down_write(&trace_event_sem);
		list_add(&call->list, &ftrace_events);
		up_write(&trace_event_sem);

		call->mod = mod;

		return 0;
		@@ -2489,6 +2492,8 @@ __trace_add_event_dirs(struct trace_array *tr)
		struct trace_event_call *call;
		int ret;

		lockdep_assert_held(&trace_event_sem);

		list_for_each_entry(call, &ftrace_events, list) {
		ret = __trace_add_new_event(call, tr);
		if (ret < 0)