linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracepoint: Do not warn on EEXIST or ENOENT

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Date:   Sat, 26 Jun 2021 22:58:45 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Subject: [PATCH] tracepoint: Do not warn on EEXIST or ENOENT

syzbot is hitting WARN_ON_ONCE() at tracepoint_add_func() [1], but
func_add() returning -EEXIST and func_remove() returning -ENOENT are
not kernel bugs that can justify crashing the system.

Commit d66a270be3310d7a ("tracepoint: Do not warn on ENOMEM") says that
tracepoint should only warn when a kernel API user does not respect the
required preconditions (e.g. same tracepoint enabled twice, or called
to remove a tracepoint that does not exist). But WARN*() must be used to
denote kernel bugs and not to print simple warnings. If someone wants to
print warnings, pr_warn() etc. should be used instead.

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=41f4318cf01762389f4d1c1c459da4f542fe5153 [1]
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+721aa903751db87aa244@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Tested-by: syzbot <syzbot+721aa903751db87aa244@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
---
 kernel/tracepoint.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 9f478d29b926..3cfa37a3d05c 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -287,10 +287,8 @@ static int tracepoint_add_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
 	tp_funcs = rcu_dereference_protected(tp->funcs,
 			lockdep_is_held(&tracepoints_mutex));
 	old = func_add(&tp_funcs, func, prio);
-	if (IS_ERR(old)) {
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(PTR_ERR(old) != -ENOMEM);
+	if (IS_ERR(old))
 		return PTR_ERR(old);
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 * rcu_assign_pointer has as smp_store_release() which makes sure
@@ -320,7 +318,7 @@ static int tracepoint_remove_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
 	tp_funcs = rcu_dereference_protected(tp->funcs,
 			lockdep_is_held(&tracepoints_mutex));
 	old = func_remove(&tp_funcs, func);
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(old)))
+	if (IS_ERR(old))
 		return PTR_ERR(old);
 
 	if (tp_funcs == old)
-- 
2.18.4