The function graph infrastructure uses ftrace to hook to functions. It has
a single ftrace_ops to manage all the users of function graph. Each
individual user (tracing, bpf, fprobes, etc) has its own ftrace_ops to
track the functions it will have its callback called from. These
ftrace_ops are "subops" to the main ftrace_ops of the function graph
infrastructure.
Each ftrace_ops has a filter_hash and a notrace_hash that is defined as:
Only trace functions that are in the filter_hash but not in the
notrace_hash.
If the filter_hash is empty, it means to trace all functions.
If the notrace_hash is empty, it means do not disable any function.
The function graph main ftrace_ops needs to be a superset containing all
the functions to be traced by all the subops it has. The algorithm to
perform this merge was incorrect.
When the first subops was added to the main ops, it simply made the main
ops a copy of the subops (same filter_hash and notrace_hash).
When a second ops was added, it joined the new subops filter_hash with the
main ops filter_hash as a union of the two sets. The intersect between the
new subops notrace_hash and the main ops notrace_hash was created as the
new notrace_hash of the main ops.
The issue here is that it would then start tracing functions than no
subops were tracing. For example if you had two subops that had:
subops 1:
filter_hash = '*sched*' # trace all functions with "sched" in it
notrace_hash = '*time*' # except do not trace functions with "time"
subops 2:
filter_hash = '*lock*' # trace all functions with "lock" in it
notrace_hash = '*clock*' # except do not trace functions with "clock"
The intersect of '*time*' functions with '*clock*' functions could be the
empty set. That means the main ops will be tracing all functions with
'*time*' and all "*clock*" in it!
Instead, modify the algorithm to be a bit simpler and correct.
First, when adding a new subops, even if it's the first one, do not add
the notrace_hash if the filter_hash is not empty. Instead, just add the
functions that are in the filter_hash of the subops but not in the
notrace_hash of the subops into the main ops filter_hash. There's no
reason to add anything to the main ops notrace_hash.
The notrace_hash of the main ops should only be non empty iff all subops
filter_hashes are empty (meaning to trace all functions) and all subops
notrace_hashes include the same functions.
That is, the main ops notrace_hash is empty if any subops filter_hash is
non empty.
The main ops notrace_hash only has content in it if all subops
filter_hashes are empty, and the content are only functions that intersect
all the subops notrace_hashes. If any subops notrace_hash is empty, then
so is the main ops notrace_hash.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Chiu <andybnac@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250409152720.216356767@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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