Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix race where histograms can be called before the event

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On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:43:23 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 94eedf3dded5 ("tracing: Fix race where eprobes can be called before
> the event") fixed an issue where if an event is soft disabled, and the
> trigger is being added, there's a small window where the event sees that
> there's a trigger but does not see that it requires reading the event yet,
> and then calls the trigger with the record == NULL.
> 
> This could be solved with adding memory barriers in the hot path, or to
> make sure that all the triggers requiring a record check for NULL. The
> latter was chosen.
> 
> Commit 94eedf3dded5 set the eprobe trigger handle to check for NULL, but
> the same needs to be done with histograms.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20221118211809.701d40c0f8a757b0df3c025a@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 7491e2c442781 ("tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events")
> Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I confirmed that other trigger callbacks only use the event_trigger_data,
So this looks good to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!

> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> index 087c19548049..1c82478e8dff 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> @@ -5143,6 +5143,9 @@ static void event_hist_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data,
>  	void *key = NULL;
>  	unsigned int i;
>  
> +	if (unlikely(!rbe))
> +		return;
> +
>  	memset(compound_key, 0, hist_data->key_size);
>  
>  	for_each_hist_key_field(i, hist_data) {
> -- 
> 2.35.1
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>