linux/kernel
Linus Torvalds 721f0c1260 In the past, I've had lots of reports about trace events not working.
Developers would say they put a trace_printk() before and after the trace
 event but when they enable it (and the trace event said it was enabled) they
 would see the trace_printks but not the trace event.
 
 I was not able to reproduce this, but that's because I wasn't looking at
 the right location. Recently, another bug came up that showed the issue.
 
 If your kernel supports signed modules but allows for non-signed modules
 to be loaded, then when one is, the kernel will silently set the
 MODULE_FORCED taint on the module. Although, this taint happens without
 the need for insmod --force or anything of the kind, it labels the
 module with that taint anyway.
 
 If this tainted module has tracepoints, the tracepoints will be ignored
 because of the MODULE_FORCED taint. But no error message will be
 displayed. Worse yet, the event infrastructure will still be created
 letting users enable the trace event represented by the tracepoint,
 although that event will never actually be enabled. This is because
 the tracepoint infrastructure allows for non-existing tracepoints to
 be enabled for new modules to arrive and have their tracepoints set.
 
 Although there are several things wrong with the above, this change
 only addresses the creation of the trace event files for tracepoints
 that are not created when a module is loaded and is tainted. This change
 will print an error message about the module being tainted and not the
 trace events will not be created, and it does not create the trace event
 infrastructure.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "In the past, I've had lots of reports about trace events not working.
  Developers would say they put a trace_printk() before and after the
  trace event but when they enable it (and the trace event said it was
  enabled) they would see the trace_printks but not the trace event.

  I was not able to reproduce this, but that's because I wasn't looking
  at the right location.  Recently, another bug came up that showed the
  issue.

  If your kernel supports signed modules but allows for non-signed
  modules to be loaded, then when one is, the kernel will silently set
  the MODULE_FORCED taint on the module.  Although, this taint happens
  without the need for insmod --force or anything of the kind, it labels
  the module with that taint anyway.

  If this tainted module has tracepoints, the tracepoints will be
  ignored because of the MODULE_FORCED taint.  But no error message will
  be displayed.  Worse yet, the event infrastructure will still be
  created letting users enable the trace event represented by the
  tracepoint, although that event will never actually be enabled.  This
  is because the tracepoint infrastructure allows for non-existing
  tracepoints to be enabled for new modules to arrive and have their
  tracepoints set.

  Although there are several things wrong with the above, this change
  only addresses the creation of the trace event files for tracepoints
  that are not created when a module is loaded and is tainted.  This
  change will print an error message about the module being tainted and
  not the trace events will not be created, and it does not create the
  trace event infrastructure"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints
2014-03-07 16:32:40 -08:00
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cpu sched/preempt: Fix up missed PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED folding 2014-01-13 17:38:55 +01:00
debug kgdb/kdb: Fix no KDB config problem 2014-01-25 08:55:09 +01:00
events perf: Fix hotplug splat 2014-02-27 12:38:03 +01:00
gcov gcov: reuse kbasename helper 2013-11-13 12:09:34 +09:00
irq genirq: Include missing header file in irqdomain.c 2014-02-27 13:29:35 +01:00
locking Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-20 10:42:08 -08:00
power arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includes 2014-02-03 13:24:01 -05:00
printk printk: fix syslog() overflowing user buffer 2014-02-17 12:24:45 -08:00
rcu Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
sched sched/deadline: Prevent rt_time growth to infinity 2014-02-27 12:29:41 +01:00
time sched_clock: Prevent callers from seeing half-updated data 2014-02-19 17:07:22 +01:00
trace tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints 2014-03-03 21:11:05 -05:00
.gitignore Ignore generated file kernel/x509_certificate_list 2013-12-10 18:21:34 +00:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
Kconfig.locks locking: Fix copy/paste errors of "ARCH_INLINE_*_UNLOCK_BH" 2013-05-28 08:50:00 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
Makefile KEYS: Remove files generated when SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING=y 2013-12-13 15:59:11 +00:00
acct.c fs: Fix hang with BSD accounting on frozen filesystem 2013-05-04 14:57:58 -04:00
async.c
audit.c audit: fix location of __net_initdata for audit_net_ops 2014-01-17 17:14:32 -05:00
audit.h audit: Convert int limit uses to u32 2014-01-14 14:54:00 -05:00
audit_tree.c inotify: Fix reporting of cookies for inotify events 2014-02-18 11:17:17 +01:00
audit_watch.c inotify: Fix reporting of cookies for inotify events 2014-02-18 11:17:17 +01:00
auditfilter.c audit: log on errors from filter user rules 2014-01-13 22:32:31 -05:00
auditsc.c execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing 2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c mm: do not allocate page->ptl dynamically, if spinlock_t fits to long 2013-12-20 12:25:45 -08:00
capability.c audit: Simplify and correct audit_log_capset 2014-01-13 22:26:48 -05:00
cgroup.c cgroup: update cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() to grab siglock 2014-02-18 18:23:18 -05:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: replace cftype->read_seq_string() with cftype->seq_show() 2013-12-05 12:28:04 -05:00
compat.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-05-01 07:21:43 -07:00
configs.c proc: Supply PDE attribute setting accessor functions 2013-05-01 17:29:18 -04:00
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Wrap static key check into more intuitive function name 2013-12-02 20:43:14 +01:00
cpu.c Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-11-14 16:55:11 +09:00
cpu_pm.c
cpuset.c cgroup: replace cftype->read_seq_string() with cftype->seq_show() 2013-12-05 12:28:04 -05:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c kernel/delayacct.c: remove redundant checking in __delayacct_add_tsk() 2013-11-13 12:09:12 +09:00
dma.c
elfcore.c switch elf_core_write_extra_phdrs() to dump_emit() 2013-11-09 00:16:23 -05:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c introduce for_each_thread() to replace the buggy while_each_thread() 2014-01-21 16:19:46 -08:00
extable.c kernel/extable: fix address-checks for core_kernel and init areas 2013-11-28 09:49:41 -08:00
fork.c exec: kill task_struct->did_exec 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
freezer.c libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen 2013-12-19 13:50:32 -05:00
futex.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-20 10:42:08 -08:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
hrtimer.c sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE structures & implementation 2014-01-13 13:41:06 +01:00
hung_task.c hung_task: Display every hung task warning 2014-01-25 12:13:33 +01:00
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c static_key: WARN on usage before jump_label_init was called 2013-10-19 19:45:35 -04:00
kallsyms.c kernel: kallsyms: memory override issue, need check destination buffer length 2013-04-15 15:17:26 +09:30
kcmp.c
kexec.c kernel/kexec.c: use vscnprintf() instead of vsnprintf() in vmcoreinfo_append_str() 2014-01-27 21:02:40 -08:00
kmod.c execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing 2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
kprobes.c kprobes: use KSYM_NAME_LEN to size identifier buffers 2013-11-13 12:09:26 +09:00
ksysfs.c kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note 2014-01-23 16:37:03 -08:00
kthread.c kthread: make kthread_create() killable 2013-11-13 12:08:59 +09:00
latencytop.c
module-internal.h KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing 2013-09-25 17:17:01 +01:00
module.c module: Add missing newline in printk call. 2014-01-21 09:59:16 +10:30
module_signing.c keys: change asymmetric keys to use common hash definitions 2013-10-25 17:15:18 -04:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2013-09-07 14:35:32 -07:00
padata.c padata: Fix wrong usage of rcu_dereference() 2013-12-05 21:28:42 +08:00
panic.c panic: Make panic_timeout configurable 2013-11-26 12:12:26 +01:00
params.c params: improve standard definitions 2013-12-04 14:09:46 +10:30
pid.c pidns: fix free_pid() to handle the first fork failure 2013-09-30 14:31:03 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pid_namespace: make freeing struct pid_namespace rcu-delayed 2013-10-24 23:43:29 -04:00
posix-cpu-timers.c posix-timers: Convert abuses of BUG_ON to WARN_ON 2013-12-09 16:56:29 +01:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers: Remove unused variable 2013-04-18 12:51:19 +02:00
profile.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
ptrace.c exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
range.c range: Do not add new blank slot with add_range_with_merge 2013-06-18 11:32:10 -05:00
reboot.c kexec: migrate to reboot cpu 2013-12-18 19:04:50 -08:00
relay.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
res_counter.c memcg: reduce function dereference 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
resource.c kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource 2013-07-03 16:08:06 -07:00
seccomp.c seccomp: allow BPF_XOR based ALU instructions. 2013-03-26 11:07:19 +11:00
signal.c kernel/signal.c: change do_signal_stop/do_sigaction to use while_each_thread() 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
smp.c kernel/smp.c: remove cpumask_ipi 2014-01-30 16:56:54 -08:00
smpboot.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-31 09:02:51 -08:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() 2013-11-11 12:43:38 +01:00
sys.c kernel/sys.c: k_getrusage() can use while_each_thread() 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
sys_ni.c unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE 2013-05-09 13:46:38 -04:00
sysctl.c Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-31 08:59:46 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf() 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
system_certificates.S KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file 2013-12-10 18:25:28 +00:00
system_keyring.c KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file 2013-12-10 18:25:28 +00:00
task_work.c task_work: documentation 2013-09-11 15:58:27 -07:00
taskstats.c genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops() 2013-11-19 16:39:05 -05:00
test_kprobes.c kernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32() 2013-04-29 18:28:42 -07:00
time.c sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
timeconst.bc
timer.c timer: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...) 2013-11-19 14:59:50 +01:00
tracepoint.c tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints 2014-03-03 21:11:05 -05:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
up.c kernel: provide a __smp_call_function_single stub for !CONFIG_SMP 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c KEYS: fix uninitialized persistent_keyring_register_sem 2013-12-13 15:59:11 +00:00
user_namespace.c user_namespace.c: Remove duplicated word in comment 2014-02-20 11:58:35 -08:00
utsname.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c watchdog: update watchdog_thresh properly 2013-09-24 17:00:25 -07:00
workqueue.c workqueue: ensure @task is valid across kthread_stop() 2014-02-18 16:35:20 -05:00
workqueue_internal.h sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00