From: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org
When the last fprobe is removed, it calls unregister_ftrace_graph() to remove the graph_ops from function graph. The issue is when it does so, it calls return before removing the function from its graph ops via ftrace_set_filter_ips(). This leaves the last function lingering in the fprobe's fgraph ops and if a probe is added it also enables that last function (even though the callback will just drop it, it does add unneeded overhead to make that call).
# echo "f:myevent1 kernel_clone" >> /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/enabled_functions kernel_clone (1) tramp: 0xffffffffc02f3000 (ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60) ->ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60
# echo "f:myevent2 schedule_timeout" >> /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/enabled_functions kernel_clone (1) tramp: 0xffffffffc02f3000 (ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60) ->ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60 schedule_timeout (1) tramp: 0xffffffffc02f3000 (ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60) ->ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60
# > /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/enabled_functions
# echo "f:myevent3 kmem_cache_free" >> /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/enabled_functions kmem_cache_free (1) tramp: 0xffffffffc0219000 (ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60) ->ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60 schedule_timeout (1) tramp: 0xffffffffc0219000 (ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60) ->ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60
The above enabled a fprobe on kernel_clone, and then on schedule_timeout. The content of the enabled_functions shows the functions that have a callback attached to them. The fprobe attached to those functions properly. Then the fprobes were cleared, and enabled_functions was empty after that. But after adding a fprobe on kmem_cache_free, the enabled_functions shows that the schedule_timeout was attached again. This is because it was still left in the fprobe ops that is used to tell function graph what functions it wants callbacks from.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Sven Schnelle svens@linux.ibm.com Cc: Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com Cc: Alexander Gordeev agordeev@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250220202055.393254452@goodmis.org Fixes: 4346ba1604093 ("fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer") Tested-by: Heiko Carstens hca@linux.ibm.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/fprobe.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/fprobe.c b/kernel/trace/fprobe.c index 2560b312ad57..62e8f7d56602 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/fprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/fprobe.c @@ -403,11 +403,9 @@ static void fprobe_graph_remove_ips(unsigned long *addrs, int num) lockdep_assert_held(&fprobe_mutex);
fprobe_graph_active--; - if (!fprobe_graph_active) { - /* Q: should we unregister it ? */ + /* Q: should we unregister it ? */ + if (!fprobe_graph_active) unregister_ftrace_graph(&fprobe_graph_ops); - return; - }
ftrace_set_filter_ips(&fprobe_graph_ops.ops, addrs, num, 1, 0); }