linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.11 038/144] tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints

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Message-Id: <1396350948-29910-39-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Date:	Tue,  1 Apr 2014 12:14:02 +0100
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.11 038/144] tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints

3.11.10.7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>

commit 45ab2813d40d88fc575e753c38478de242d03f88 upstream.

If a module fails to add its tracepoints due to module tainting, do not
create the module event infrastructure in the debugfs directory. As the events
will not work and worse yet, they will silently fail, making the user wonder
why the events they enable do not display anything.

Having a warning on module load and the events not visible to the users
will make the cause of the problem much clearer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140227154923.265882695@goodmis.org

Fixes: 6d723736e472 "tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT"
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 include/linux/tracepoint.h  |  6 ++++++
 kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 10 ++++++++++
 kernel/tracepoint.c         |  7 ++++++-
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index ebeab36..0ecc46e 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ struct tp_module {
 	unsigned int num_tracepoints;
 	struct tracepoint * const *tracepoints_ptrs;
 };
+bool trace_module_has_bad_taint(struct module *mod);
+#else
+static inline bool trace_module_has_bad_taint(struct module *mod)
+{
+	return false;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
 
 struct tracepoint_iter {
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 29a7ebc..34b821f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -1844,6 +1844,16 @@ static void trace_module_add_events(struct module *mod)
 	struct ftrace_module_file_ops *file_ops = NULL;
 	struct ftrace_event_call **call, **start, **end;
 
+	if (!mod->num_trace_events)
+		return;
+
+	/* Don't add infrastructure for mods without tracepoints */
+	if (trace_module_has_bad_taint(mod)) {
+		pr_err("%s: module has bad taint, not creating trace events\n",
+		       mod->name);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	start = mod->trace_events;
 	end = mod->trace_events + mod->num_trace_events;
 
diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 29f2654..031cc56 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -631,6 +631,11 @@ void tracepoint_iter_reset(struct tracepoint_iter *iter)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tracepoint_iter_reset);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+bool trace_module_has_bad_taint(struct module *mod)
+{
+	return mod->taints & ~((1 << TAINT_OOT_MODULE) | (1 << TAINT_CRAP));
+}
+
 static int tracepoint_module_coming(struct module *mod)
 {
 	struct tp_module *tp_mod, *iter;
@@ -641,7 +646,7 @@ static int tracepoint_module_coming(struct module *mod)
 	 * module headers (for forced load), to make sure we don't cause a crash.
 	 * Staging and out-of-tree GPL modules are fine.
 	 */
-	if (mod->taints & ~((1 << TAINT_OOT_MODULE) | (1 << TAINT_CRAP)))
+	if (trace_module_has_bad_taint(mod))
 		return 0;
 	mutex_lock(&tracepoints_mutex);
 	tp_mod = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tp_module), GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
1.9.1

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