linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracing: Disable trace

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20260121093858.5c5d7e7b@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:38:58 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Trace Kernel
 <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Mathieu Desnoyers
 <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Disable trace_printk buffer on warning too

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

When /proc/sys/kernel/traceoff_on_warning is set to 1, the top level
tracing buffer is disabled when a warning happens. This is very useful
when debugging and want the tracing buffer to stop taking new data when a
warning triggers keeping the events that lead up to the warning from being
overwritten.

Now that there is also a persistent ring buffer and an option to have
trace_printk go to that buffer, the same holds true for that buffer. A
warning could happen just before a crash but still write enough events to
lose the events that lead up to the first warning that was the reason for
the crash.

When /proc/sys/kernel/traceoff_on_warning is set to 1 and a warning is
triggered, not only disable the top level tracing buffer, but also disable
the buffer that trace_printk()s are written to.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index baec63134ab6..1be88395421c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1666,9 +1666,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tracing_off);
 void disable_trace_on_warning(void)
 {
 	if (__disable_trace_on_warning) {
+		struct trace_array *tr = READ_ONCE(printk_trace);
+
 		trace_array_printk_buf(global_trace.array_buffer.buffer, _THIS_IP_,
 			"Disabling tracing due to warning\n");
 		tracing_off();
+
+		/* Disable trace_printk() buffer too */
+		if (tr != &global_trace) {
+			trace_array_printk_buf(tr->array_buffer.buffer, _THIS_IP_,
+					       "Disabling tracing due to warning\n");
+			tracer_tracing_off(tr);
+		}
 	}
 }

-- 
2.51.0