From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: lee@kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] tracing/histograms: Verify event_call identity when updating synth_event refcount
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:07:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019120730.2342739-1-lee@kernel.org> (raw)
In event_hist_trigger_parse() and hist_unreg_all(), the histogram
registration and unregistration paths look up find_synth_event() using
trace_event_name(file->event_call) and adjust se->ref if a match is
found.
Because find_synth_event() only compares the event basename, registering
or removing a histogram on a non-synthetic trace event whose basename
matches a synthetic event erroneously modifies the synthetic event's
reference count. If a histogram is registered on the non-synthetic
event before the synthetic event is created and removed afterwards,
se->ref is decremented without a matching increment, allowing the
synthetic event to be freed while an active histogram action still holds
a pointer to it.
Introduce find_synth_event_call() to verify that &se->call matches
file->event_call before adjusting se->ref.
Fixes: 4b147936fa50 ("tracing: Add support for 'synthetic' events")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
---
v1 -> v2:
- Introduce find_synth_event_call() helper instead of open-coding the
&se->call == file->event_call check at each call site (Steven).
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 11 +++--------
kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 10 ++++++++++
kernel/trace/trace_synth.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 00a1d8522036..9a789f57ed95 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -6792,7 +6792,6 @@ static void hist_unreg_all(struct trace_event_file *file)
struct event_trigger_data *test, *n;
struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data;
struct synth_event *se;
- const char *se_name;
lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
@@ -6805,8 +6804,7 @@ static void hist_unreg_all(struct trace_event_file *file)
list_del_rcu(&test->list);
trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(file, 0);
- se_name = trace_event_name(file->event_call);
- se = find_synth_event(se_name);
+ se = find_synth_event_call(file->event_call);
if (se)
se->ref--;
@@ -6830,7 +6828,6 @@ static int event_hist_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data;
char *param, *filter, *p, *start;
struct synth_event *se;
- const char *se_name;
bool remove;
int ret = 0;
@@ -6924,8 +6921,7 @@ static int event_hist_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
}
event_trigger_unregister(cmd_ops, file, glob+1, trigger_data);
- se_name = trace_event_name(file->event_call);
- se = find_synth_event(se_name);
+ se = find_synth_event_call(file->event_call);
if (se)
se->ref--;
ret = 0;
@@ -6960,8 +6956,7 @@ static int event_hist_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
if (ret)
goto out_unreg;
- se_name = trace_event_name(file->event_call);
- se = find_synth_event(se_name);
+ se = find_synth_event_call(file->event_call);
if (se)
se->ref++;
out:
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
index dc15658a887c..e2870212e58d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
@@ -914,6 +914,16 @@ struct synth_event *find_synth_event(const char *name)
return NULL;
}
+struct synth_event *find_synth_event_call(struct trace_event_call *call)
+{
+ struct synth_event *se;
+ const char *name;
+
+ name = trace_event_name(call);
+ se = find_synth_event(name);
+ return se && &se->call == call ? se : NULL;
+}
+
static struct trace_event_fields synth_event_fields_array[] = {
{ .type = TRACE_FUNCTION_TYPE,
.define_fields = synth_event_define_fields },
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h b/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h
index 43f6fb6078db..d4ebf01b7049 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_synth.h
@@ -37,5 +37,6 @@ struct synth_event {
};
extern struct synth_event *find_synth_event(const char *name);
+extern struct synth_event *find_synth_event_call(struct trace_event_call *call);
#endif /* __TRACE_SYNTH_H */
--
2.56.0.212.g129ede20d9-goog
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