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tracing: Fix use-after-free freeing trigger private data

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Commit 61d445af0a ("tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing
event_trigger_data") moved the kfree() of event_trigger_data to a kthread
that runs tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() before freeing. That removed
the synchronization the trigger .free callbacks used to get implicitly and
inline from trigger_data_free().

event_hist_trigger_free(), event_hist_trigger_named_free() and
event_enable_trigger_free() free their satellite data (hist_data, cmd_ops,
enable_data) right after trigger_data_free() returns. With the
synchronization now deferred to the kthread, a concurrent tracepoint
handler can still reach that data through the list_del_rcu()'d trigger,
causing a use-after-free.

The histogram teardown must stay synchronous: remove_hist_vars() and
unregister_field_var_hists() have to detach a synthetic event from the
histogram before the trigger-removal write returns, otherwise a following
command races in and the synthetic-event removal fails with -EBUSY, as the
trigger-synthetic-eprobe.tc selftest catches. Make those callbacks wait
with the correct barrier - tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(), matching
the free kthread - before freeing.

The enable trigger has no such synchronous requirement, and a blocking
synchronize there would re-serialize the path that commit deliberately
deferred. Give it an optional private_data_free() callback that the free
kthread runs after its grace period, and free enable_data from there.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260724030523.19081-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fixes: 61d445af0a ("tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing event_trigger_data")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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David Carlier 2026-07-24 04:05:17 +01:00 • committed by Steven Rostedt
commit 7909781215
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