From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" rostedt@goodmis.org
Performing the following:
# echo 'wakeup_lat s32 pid; u64 delta; char wake_comm[]' > synthetic_events # echo 'hist:keys=pid:__arg__1=common_timestamp.usecs' > events/sched/sched_waking/trigger # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:pid=next_pid,delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$__arg__1:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wakeup_lat,$pid,$delta,prev_comm)'\
> events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
# echo 1 > events/synthetic/enable
Crashed the kernel:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001b #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-test+ #104 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v03.03 07/14/2016 RIP: 0010:strlen+0x0/0x20 Code: f6 82 80 2b 0b bc 20 74 11 0f b6 50 01 48 83 c0 01 f6 82 80 2b 0b bc 20 75 ef c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 <80> 3f 00 74 10 48 89 f8 48 83 c0 01 80 38 9 f8 c3 31 RSP: 0018:ffffaa75000d79d0 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff9cdb55575270 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff9cdb58c7a320 RSI: ffffaa75000d7b40 RDI: 000000000000001b RBP: ffffaa75000d7b40 R08: ffff9cdb40a4f010 R09: ffffaa75000d7ab8 R10: ffff9cdb4398c700 R11: 0000000000000008 R12: ffff9cdb58c7a320 R13: ffff9cdb55575270 R14: ffff9cdb58c7a000 R15: 0000000000000018 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9cdb5aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000000000001b CR3: 00000000c0612006 CR4: 00000000001706e0 Call Trace: trace_event_raw_event_synth+0x90/0x1d0 action_trace+0x5b/0x70 event_hist_trigger+0x4bd/0x4e0 ? cpumask_next_and+0x20/0x30 ? update_sd_lb_stats.constprop.0+0xf6/0x840 ? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x125/0x550 ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90 ? sched_clock_cpu+0xe/0xd0 ? lock_release+0x155/0x440 ? update_load_avg+0x8c/0x6f0 ? enqueue_entity+0x18a/0x920 ? __rb_reserve_next+0xe5/0x460 ? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0 event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0 trace_event_buffer_commit+0x1ae/0x240 trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch+0x114/0x170 __traceiter_sched_switch+0x39/0x50 __schedule+0x431/0xb00 schedule_idle+0x28/0x40 do_idle+0x198/0x2e0 cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xc2/0xcb
The reason is that the dynamic events array keeps track of the field position of the fields array, via the field_pos variable in the synth_field structure. Unfortunately, that field is a boolean for some reason, which means any field_pos greater than 1 will be a bug (in this case it was 2).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721191008.638bce34@oasis.local.home
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: bd82631d7ccdc ("tracing: Add support for dynamic strings to synthetic events") Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/trace_synth.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h b/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h index 6e146b959dcd..4007fe95cf42 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h @@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ struct synth_field { char *name; size_t size; unsigned int offset; + unsigned int field_pos; bool is_signed; bool is_string; bool is_dynamic; - bool field_pos; };
struct synth_event {