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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 2c05caa7ba tracing / histogram: Give calculation hist_fields a size 
When working on my user space applications, I found a bug in the synthetic
event code where the automated synthetic event field was not matching the
event field calculation it was attached to. Looking deeper into it, it was
because the calculation hist_field was not given a size.

The synthetic event fields are matched to their hist_fields either by
having the field have an identical string type, or if that does not match,
then the size and signed values are used to match the fields.

The problem arose when I tried to match a calculation where the fields
were "unsigned int". My tool created a synthetic event of type "u32". But
it failed to match. The string was:

  diff=field1-field2:onmatch(event).trace(synth,$diff)

Adding debugging into the kernel, I found that the size of "diff" was 0.
And since it was given "unsigned int" as a type, the histogram fallback
code used size and signed. The signed matched, but the size of u32 (4) did
not match zero, and the event failed to be created.

This can be worse if the field you want to match is not one of the
acceptable fields for a synthetic event. As event fields can have any type
that is supported in Linux, this can cause an issue. For example, if a
type is an enum. Then there's no way to use that with any calculations.

Have the calculation field simply take on the size of what it is
calculating.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210730171951.59c7743f@oasis.local.home

Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
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: 100719dcef ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-08-04 17:48:41 -04:00
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bpf bpf: Track subprog poke descriptors correctly and fix use-after-free 2021-07-09 12:08:27 +02:00
cgroup fs: add vfs_parse_fs_param_source() helper 2021-07-14 09:19:06 -07:00
configs drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good 2021-05-07 00:26:34 -07:00
debug kernel: debug: Fix unreachable code in gdb_serial_stub() 2021-07-12 11:03:35 -05:00
dma dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.14 2021-07-02 13:31:08 -07:00
entry tick/nohz: Only check for RCU deferred wakeup on user/guest entry when needed 2021-05-31 10:14:49 +02:00
events Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-06-29 17:29:11 -07:00
gcov Kconfig: Introduce ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR and CC_HAS_NO_PROFILE_FN_ATTR 2021-06-22 11:07:18 -07:00
irq irqchip fixes for 5.14, take #1 2021-07-09 15:35:13 +02:00
kcsan Merge branch 'kcsan.2021.05.18a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu 2021-07-04 12:29:16 -07:00
livepatch Livepatching changes for 5.13 2021-04-27 18:14:38 -07:00
locking Locking fixes: 2021-07-11 11:06:09 -07:00
power PM: hibernate: disable when there are active secretmem users 2021-07-08 11:48:21 -07:00
printk printk changes for 5.14 2021-06-29 12:07:18 -07:00
rcu rcu: Fix pr_info() formats and values in show_rcu_gp_kthreads() 2021-07-06 15:53:12 -07:00
sched Three fixes: 2021-07-11 11:13:57 -07:00
time Merge branch 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu 2021-07-04 12:58:33 -07:00
trace tracing / histogram: Give calculation hist_fields a size 2021-08-04 17:48:41 -04:00
.gitignore .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
acct.c kernel/acct.c: use #elif instead of #end and #elif 2020-12-15 22:46:15 -08:00
async.c kernel/async.c: remove async_unregister_domain() 2021-05-07 00:26:33 -07:00
audit_fsnotify.c audit_alloc_mark(): don't open-code ERR_CAST() 2021-02-23 10:25:27 -05:00
audit_tree.c audit: Use list_move instead of list_del/list_add 2021-06-08 22:18:35 -04:00
audit_watch.c fsnotify: generalize handle_inode_event() 2020-12-03 14:58:35 +01:00
audit.c lsm: separate security_task_getsecid() into subjective and objective variants 2021-03-22 15:23:32 -04:00
audit.h audit: remove trailing spaces and tabs 2021-06-10 20:59:05 -04:00
auditfilter.c lsm: separate security_task_getsecid() into subjective and objective variants 2021-03-22 15:23:32 -04:00
auditsc.c audit: remove trailing spaces and tabs 2021-06-10 20:59:05 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c capability: handle idmapped mounts 2021-01-24 14:27:16 +01:00
cfi.c add support for Clang CFI 2021-04-08 16:04:20 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c A fix for the CPU hotplug and cpusets interaction: 2021-06-29 12:23:02 -07:00
crash_core.c kdump: use vmlinux_build_id to simplify 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-06-28 20:39:26 -07:00
delayacct.c delayacct: Add sysctl to enable at runtime 2021-05-12 11:43:25 +02:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-06-28 20:39:26 -07:00
extable.c
fail_function.c fault-injection: handle EI_ETYPE_TRUE 2020-12-15 22:46:19 -08:00
fork.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-06-29 17:29:11 -07:00
freezer.c sched: Add get_current_state() 2021-06-18 11:43:08 +02:00
futex.c Locking changes for this cycle: 2021-06-28 11:45:29 -07:00
gen_kheaders.sh kbuild: clean up ${quiet} checks in shell scripts 2021-05-27 04:01:50 +09:00
groups.c groups: simplify struct group_info allocation 2021-02-26 09:41:03 -08:00
hung_task.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
iomem.c
irq_work.c irq_work: Make irq_work_queue() NMI-safe again 2021-06-10 10:00:08 +02:00
jump_label.c jump_label: Fix jump_label_text_reserved() vs __init 2021-07-05 10:46:20 +02:00
kallsyms.c module: add printk formats to add module build ID to stacktraces 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
kcmp.c Merge branch 'exec-update-lock-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2020-12-15 19:36:48 -08:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt sched/core: Disable CONFIG_SCHED_CORE by default 2021-06-28 22:43:05 +02:00
kcov.c
kexec_core.c kernel.h: split out panic and oops helpers 2021-07-01 11:06:04 -07:00
kexec_elf.c
kexec_file.c kernel: kexec_file: fix error return code of kexec_calculate_store_digests() 2021-05-07 00:26:32 -07:00
kexec_internal.h kexec: move machine_kexec_post_load() to public interface 2021-02-22 12:33:26 +00:00
kexec.c
kheaders.c
kmod.c modules: add CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH 2021-05-07 00:26:33 -07:00
kprobes.c Locking fixes: 2021-07-11 11:06:09 -07:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-06-29 17:29:11 -07:00
latencytop.c
Makefile kbuild: update config_data.gz only when the content of .config is changed 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
module_signature.c module: harden ELF info handling 2021-01-19 10:24:45 +01:00
module_signing.c module: harden ELF info handling 2021-01-19 10:24:45 +01:00
module-internal.h
module.c module: add printk formats to add module build ID to stacktraces 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c fixes-v5.11 2020-12-14 16:40:27 -08:00
padata.c
panic.c kernel.h: split out panic and oops helpers 2021-07-01 11:06:04 -07:00
params.c Modules updates for v5.11 2020-12-17 13:01:31 -08:00
pid_namespace.c fixes-v5.11 2020-12-14 16:40:27 -08:00
pid.c Merge branch 'exec-update-lock-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2020-12-15 19:36:48 -08:00
profile.c kernel: Initialize cpumask before parsing 2021-04-10 13:35:54 +02:00
ptrace.c sched: Change task_struct::state 2021-06-18 11:43:09 +02:00
range.c
reboot.c reboot: Add hardware protection power-off 2021-06-21 13:08:36 +01:00
regset.c
relay.c relay: allow the use of const callback structs 2020-12-15 22:46:18 -08:00
resource_kunit.c resource: provide meaningful MODULE_LICENSE() in test suite 2020-11-25 18:52:35 +01:00
resource.c kernel/resource: fix return code check in __request_free_mem_region 2021-05-14 19:41:32 -07:00
rseq.c rseq: Optimise rseq_get_rseq_cs() and clear_rseq_cs() 2021-04-14 18:04:09 +02:00
scftorture.c scftorture: Avoid false-positive warnings in scftorture_invoker() 2021-07-06 12:37:55 -07:00
scs.c scs: switch to vmapped shadow stacks 2020-12-01 10:30:28 +00:00
seccomp.c seccomp: Support atomic "addfd + send reply" 2021-06-28 12:49:52 -07:00
signal.c Fix UCOUNT_RLIMIT_SIGPENDING counter leak 2021-07-08 11:43:24 -07:00
smp.c smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async prototype 2021-05-06 15:33:49 +02:00
smpboot.c sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled 2021-05-12 13:01:45 +02:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c sched: Introduce task_is_running() 2021-06-18 11:43:07 +02:00
stackleak.c
stacktrace.c
static_call.c static_call: Fix static_call_text_reserved() vs __init 2021-07-05 10:46:33 +02:00
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Add caller debug info to queue_stop_cpus_work 2021-03-23 16:01:58 +01:00
sys_ni.c mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas 2021-07-08 11:48:21 -07:00
sys.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-06-28 20:39:26 -07:00
sysctl-test.c kernel/sysctl-test: Remove some casts which are no-longer required 2021-06-23 16:41:24 -06:00
sysctl.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
task_work.c kasan: record task_work_add() call stack 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -07:00
taskstats.c treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy. 2020-11-16 08:08:54 -08:00
test_kprobes.c
torture.c torture: Replace torture_init_begin string with %s 2021-03-08 14:22:28 -08:00
tracepoint.c tracepoints: Update static_call before tp_funcs when adding a tracepoint 2021-07-23 08:46:22 -04:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-06-28 20:39:26 -07:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c kernel/umh.c: fix some spelling mistakes 2021-05-07 00:26:34 -07:00
up.c A set of locking related fixes and updates: 2021-05-09 13:07:03 -07:00
user_namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-06-28 20:39:26 -07:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts 2021-04-30 14:14:02 -05:00
usermode_driver.c Merge branch 'work.namei' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2021-07-03 11:41:14 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
watch_queue.c watch_queue: rectify kernel-doc for init_watch() 2021-01-26 11:16:34 +00:00
watchdog_hld.c
watchdog.c kernel: watchdog: modify the explanation related to watchdog thread 2021-06-29 10:53:46 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c wq: handle VM suspension in stall detection 2021-05-20 12:58:30 -04:00