1) About v4-0001-tracing-Remove-hist-trigger-synth_var_refs.patch:
The reason I am backporting this patch is that no one found the double-free bug at that time, then later the code was removed on upstream, but 4.19-stable has the bug.
This is tested via "./ftracetest test.d/trigger/inter-event/ trigger-field-variable-support.tc" ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in destroy_hist_field+0x115/0x140 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888012e95318 by task ftracetest/1858
CPU: 1 PID: 1858 Comm: ftracetest Kdump: loaded Tainted: GE 4.19.90-89 #24 Source Version: Unknown Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0 Call Trace: dump_stack+0xcb/0x10b print_address_description.cold+0x54/0x249 kasan_report_error.cold+0x63/0xab ? destroy_hist_field+0x115/0x140 __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x8d/0xa0 ? destroy_hist_field+0x115/0x140 destroy_hist_field+0x115/0x140 destroy_hist_data+0x4e4/0x9a0 event_hist_trigger_free+0x212/0x2f0 ? update_cond_flag+0x128/0x170 ? event_hist_trigger_func+0x2880/0x2880 hist_unregister_trigger+0x2f2/0x4f0 event_hist_trigger_func+0x168c/0x2880 ? tracing_map_read_var_once+0xd0/0xd0 ? create_key_field+0x520/0x520 ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10 event_trigger_write+0x2f4/0x490 ? trigger_start+0x180/0x180 ? __fget_light+0x369/0x5d0 ? count_memcg_event_mm+0x104/0x2b0 ? trigger_start+0x180/0x180 __vfs_write+0x81/0x100 vfs_write+0x1e1/0x540 ksys_write+0x12a/0x290 ? __ia32_sys_read+0xb0/0xb0 ? __close_fd+0x1d3/0x280 do_syscall_64+0xe3/0x2d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x5c/0xc1 RIP: 0033:0x7efdd342ee04 Code: 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8d 05 39 34 0c 00 8b 00 85 c0 75 13 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 f3 c3 66 90 41 54 55 49 89 d4 53 48 89 f5 RSP: 002b:00007ffda01f5e08 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000000000b4 RCX: 00007efdd342ee04 RDX: 00000000000000b4 RSI: 000055c5b41b1e90 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 000055c5b41b1e90 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 000000000000000a R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007efdd34ed5c0 R13: 00000000000000b4 R14: 00007efdd34ed7c0 R15: 00000000000000b4 ==================================================================
2) About v4-0002-tracing-Use-var_refs-for-hist-trigger-reference-c.patch:
Only v4-0001-tracing-Remove-hist-trigger-synth_var_refs.patch will lead to compilation errors:
../kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c: In function ���find_var_ref���: ../kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:1364:36: error: ���struct hist_trigger_data��� has no member named ���n_synth_var_refs���; did you mean ���n_var_refs���? 1364 | for (i = 0; i < hist_data->n_synth_var_refs; i++) { | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | n_var_refs ../kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:1365:41: error: ���struct hist_trigger_data��� has no member named ���synth_var_refs���; did you mean ���n_var_refs���? 1365 | hist_field = hist_data->synth_var_refs[i]; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | n_var_refs
Tom Zanussi (2): tracing: Remove hist trigger synth_var_refs tracing: Use var_refs[] for hist trigger reference checking
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 86 ++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)