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Linus Torvalds 41677970ad tracing fixes for 6.15
- Fix build error when CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS is not enabled
 
   The tracing of arguments in the function tracer depends on some
   functions that are only defined when PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS is enabled.
   In fact, PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS also depends on all the same configs
   as the function argument tracing requires. Just have the function
   argument tracing depend on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS.
 
 - Free module_delta for persistent ring buffer instance
 
   When an instance holds the persistent ring buffer, it allocates
   a helper array to hold the deltas between where modules are loaded
   on the last boot and the current boot. This array needs to be freed
   when the instance is freed.
 
 - Add cond_resched() to loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash()
 
   The hash functions in ftrace loop over every function that can be
   enabled by ftrace. This can be 50,000 functions or more. This
   loop is known to trigger soft lockup warnings and requires a
   cond_resched(). The loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash() was missing it.
 
 - Fix the event format verifier to include "%*p.." arguments
 
   To prevent events from dereferencing stale pointers that can
   happen if a trace event uses a dereferece pointer to something
   that was not copied into the ring buffer and can be freed by the
   time the trace is read, a verifier is called. At boot or module
   load, the verifier scans the print format string for pointers
   that can be dereferenced and it checks the arguments to make sure
   they do not contain something that can be freed. The "%*p" was
   not handled, which would add another argument and cause the verifier
   to not only not verify this pointer, but it will look at the wrong
   argument for every pointer after that.
 
 - Fix mcount sorttable building for different endian type target
 
   When modifying the ELF file to sort the mcount_loc table in the
   sorttable.c code, the endianess of the file and the host is used
   to determine if the bytes need to be swapped when calculations are
   done. A change was made to the sorting of the mcount_loc that read
   the values from the ELF file into an array and the swap happened
   on the filling of the array. But one of the calculations of the
   array still did the swap when it did not need to. This caused building
   on a little endian machine for a big endian target to not find
   the mcount function in the 'nm' table and it zeroed it out, causing
   there to be no functions available to trace.
 
 - Add goto out_unlock jump to rv_register_monitor() on error path
 
   One of the error paths in rv_register_monitor() just returned the
   error when it should have jumped to the out_unlock label to release
   the mutex.
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Fix build error when CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS is not enabled

   The tracing of arguments in the function tracer depends on some
   functions that are only defined when PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS is
   enabled. In fact, PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS also depends on all the same
   configs as the function argument tracing requires. Just have the
   function argument tracing depend on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS.

 - Free module_delta for persistent ring buffer instance

   When an instance holds the persistent ring buffer, it allocates a
   helper array to hold the deltas between where modules are loaded on
   the last boot and the current boot. This array needs to be freed when
   the instance is freed.

 - Add cond_resched() to loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash()

   The hash functions in ftrace loop over every function that can be
   enabled by ftrace. This can be 50,000 functions or more. This loop is
   known to trigger soft lockup warnings and requires a cond_resched().
   The loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash() was missing it.

 - Fix the event format verifier to include "%*p.." arguments

   To prevent events from dereferencing stale pointers that can happen
   if a trace event uses a dereferece pointer to something that was not
   copied into the ring buffer and can be freed by the time the trace is
   read, a verifier is called. At boot or module load, the verifier
   scans the print format string for pointers that can be dereferenced
   and it checks the arguments to make sure they do not contain
   something that can be freed. The "%*p" was not handled, which would
   add another argument and cause the verifier to not only not verify
   this pointer, but it will look at the wrong argument for every
   pointer after that.

 - Fix mcount sorttable building for different endian type target

   When modifying the ELF file to sort the mcount_loc table in the
   sorttable.c code, the endianess of the file and the host is used to
   determine if the bytes need to be swapped when calculations are done.
   A change was made to the sorting of the mcount_loc that read the
   values from the ELF file into an array and the swap happened on the
   filling of the array. But one of the calculations of the array still
   did the swap when it did not need to. This caused building on a
   little endian machine for a big endian target to not find the mcount
   function in the 'nm' table and it zeroed it out, causing there to be
   no functions available to trace.

 - Add goto out_unlock jump to rv_register_monitor() on error path

   One of the error paths in rv_register_monitor() just returned the
   error when it should have jumped to the out_unlock label to release
   the mutex.

* tag 'trace-v6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  rv: Fix missing unlock on double nested monitors return path
  scripts/sorttable: Fix endianness handling in build-time mcount sort
  tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.."
  ftrace: Add cond_resched() to ftrace_graph_set_hash()
  tracing: Free module_delta on freeing of persistent ring buffer
  ftrace: Have tracing function args depend on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
2025-04-03 09:52:44 -07:00
arch cxl for v6.15 2025-04-02 20:04:43 -07:00
block for-6.15/block-20250322 2025-03-26 18:08:55 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push fixes reverts the multibuffer hash testing as it is buggy. 2025-04-02 09:14:59 -07:00
Documentation - dm-crypt: switch to using the crc32 library 2025-04-02 21:27:59 -07:00
drivers firewire updates for v6.15 2025-04-02 22:41:04 -07:00
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io_uring for-6.15/io_uring-reg-vec-20250327 2025-03-28 15:07:04 -07:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel tracing fixes for 6.15 2025-04-03 09:52:44 -07:00
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sound These are objtool fixes and updates by Josh Poimboeuf, centered 2025-04-02 10:30:10 -07:00
tools cxl for v6.15 2025-04-02 20:04:43 -07:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-05 04:06:45 +09:00
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.gitignore rust: use host dylib naming convention to support macOS 2025-01-10 01:01:24 +01:00
.mailmap - The 7 patch series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel 2025-04-01 10:06:52 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS vfs-6.15-rc1.fixes 2025-04-02 16:05:21 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS USB/Thunderbolt update for 6.15-rc1 2025-04-02 18:23:31 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.