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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 12:47:08 +0200
From: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Trace Kernel <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Free error logs of tracing instances
On 5.4.2023. 5:57, Mirsad Goran Todorovac wrote:
> On 05. 04. 2023. 01:45, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
>>
>> When a tracing instance is removed, the error messages that hold errors
>> that occurred in the instance needs to be freed. The following reports a
>> memory leak:
>>
>> # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
>> # mkdir instances/foo
>> # echo 'hist:keys=x' > instances/foo/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
>> # cat instances/foo/error_log
>> [ 117.404795] hist:sched:sched_switch: error: Couldn't find field
>> Command: hist:keys=x
>> ^
>> # rmdir instances/foo
>>
>> Then check for memory leaks:
>>
>> # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>> unreferenced object 0xffff88810d8ec700 (size 192):
>> comm "bash", pid 869, jiffies 4294950577 (age 215.752s)
>> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>> 60 dd 68 61 81 88 ff ff 60 dd 68 61 81 88 ff ff `.ha....`.ha....
>> a0 30 8c 83 ff ff ff ff 26 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 .0......&.......
>> backtrace:
>> [<00000000dae26536>] kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xa0
>> [<00000000b2938940>] tracing_log_err+0x277/0x2e0
>> [<000000004a0e1b07>] parse_atom+0x966/0xb40
>> [<0000000023b24337>] parse_expr+0x5f3/0xdb0
>> [<00000000594ad074>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x27f8/0x3560
>> [<00000000293a9645>] trigger_process_regex+0x135/0x1a0
>> [<000000005c22b4f2>] event_trigger_write+0x87/0xf0
>> [<000000002cadc509>] vfs_write+0x162/0x670
>> [<0000000059c3b9be>] ksys_write+0xca/0x170
>> [<00000000f1cddc00>] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0xc0
>> [<00000000868ac68c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
>> unreferenced object 0xffff888170c35a00 (size 32):
>> comm "bash", pid 869, jiffies 4294950577 (age 215.752s)
>> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>> 0a 20 20 43 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 3a 20 68 69 73 74 . Command: hist
>> 3a 6b 65 79 73 3d 78 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 :keys=x.........
>> backtrace:
>> [<000000006a747de5>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x160
>> [<000000000039df5f>] tracing_log_err+0x29b/0x2e0
>> [<000000004a0e1b07>] parse_atom+0x966/0xb40
>> [<0000000023b24337>] parse_expr+0x5f3/0xdb0
>> [<00000000594ad074>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x27f8/0x3560
>> [<00000000293a9645>] trigger_process_regex+0x135/0x1a0
>> [<000000005c22b4f2>] event_trigger_write+0x87/0xf0
>> [<000000002cadc509>] vfs_write+0x162/0x670
>> [<0000000059c3b9be>] ksys_write+0xca/0x170
>> [<00000000f1cddc00>] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0xc0
>> [<00000000868ac68c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
>>
>> The problem is that the error log needs to be freed when the instance is
>> removed.
>>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/76134d9f-a5ba-6a0d-37b3-28310b4a1e91@alu.unizg.hr/
>>
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>> Fixes: 2f754e771b1a6 ("tracing: Have the error logs show up in the proper instances")
>> Reported-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
>> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
>> ---
>> kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
>> index 8ae51f1dea8e..352a804b016d 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
>> @@ -9516,6 +9516,7 @@ static int __remove_instance(struct trace_array *tr)
>> tracefs_remove(tr->dir);
>> free_percpu(tr->last_func_repeats);
>> free_trace_buffers(tr);
>> + clear_tracing_err_log(tr);
>>
>> for (i = 0; i < tr->nr_topts; i++) {
>> kfree(tr->topts[i].topts);
>
> Hello,
>
> Apparently, this fixed the issue (leak) with the same config, kernel commit and
> HW.
>
> Please add
>
> Tested-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
>
> at your convenience.
>
> The bisect was obviously misleading, but not intentionally. This is the first time
> my bisect was wrong (out of five or six), so I will thoroughly investigate the fault,
> for - needless to say - quality binary search bisect is essential to hunt down bug.
I found the culprit.
I have naively classified build 6.1.0-ftrace-06910-g90b12f423d3c as "good",
giving me a false negative.
It turned out that it takes at least two attempts on
# echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
to display the "ftracetest" leak in the
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
output. First try again showed no leaks. The log shows "looks good". I don't
remember what I did on Jan/26th, but it was obviously not good enough.
Mea culpa.
The leak is present already in the v5.9.0, which is earliest which I can boot
with the default kmod v30+20220630-3ubuntu1 and default ZSTD kernel compression.
If it mattered, I could proceed bisect on the other device (we'd get Fixes:
line, but the bug is already patched).
Best regards,
Mirsad
--
Mirsad Todorovac
System engineer
Faculty of Graphic Arts | Academy of Fine Arts
University of Zagreb
Republic of Croatia, the European Union
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