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Martin Kaiser 91a5409002 maple_tree: fix tracepoint string pointers
maple_tree tracepoints contain pointers to function names. Such a pointer
is saved when a tracepoint logs an event. There's no guarantee that it's
still valid when the event is parsed later and the pointer is dereferenced.

The kernel warns about these unsafe pointers.

	event 'ma_read' has unsafe pointer field 'fn'
	WARNING: kernel/trace/trace.c:3779 at ignore_event+0x1da/0x1e4

Mark the function names as tracepoint_string() to fix the events.

One case that doesn't work without my patch would be trace-cmd record
to save the binary ringbuffer and trace-cmd report to parse it in
userspace.  The address of __func__ can't be dereferenced from
userspace but tracepoint_string will add an entry to
/sys/kernel/tracing/printk_formats

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251030155537.87972-1-martin@kaiser.cx
Fixes: 54a611b605 ("Maple Tree: add new data structure")
Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-09 21:19:45 -08:00
Documentation gpio fixes for v6.18-rc5 2025-11-07 08:10:55 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
arch Miscellaneous fixes: 2025-11-08 09:01:11 -08:00
block block-6.18-20251031 2025-10-31 12:57:19 -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 contains the following changes: 2025-10-10 08:56:16 -07:00
drivers i2c-for-6.18-rc5 2025-11-09 09:29:44 -08:00
fs fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de() 2025-11-09 21:19:43 -08:00
include kho: allocate metadata directly from the buddy allocator 2025-11-09 21:19:42 -08:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation 2025-11-07 17:17:13 -07:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel gcov: add support for GCC 15 2025-11-09 21:19:44 -08:00
lib maple_tree: fix tracepoint string pointers 2025-11-09 21:19:45 -08:00
mm codetag: debug: handle existing CODETAG_EMPTY in mark_objexts_empty for slabobj_ext 2025-11-09 21:19:44 -08:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth and wireless. 2025-11-06 08:52:30 -08:00
rust rust: kbuild: workaround `rustdoc` doctests modifier bug 2025-11-04 00:00:06 +01:00
samples Char/Misc/IIO/Binder changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:26:32 -07:00
scripts kbuild: Let kernel-doc.py use PYTHON3 override 2025-11-08 19:42:22 -07:00
security integrity-v6.18 2025-10-05 10:48:33 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.18 2025-10-30 13:08:08 +01:00
tools iommufd 6.18 first rc pull 2025-11-07 13:13:09 -08:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM x86 fixes for 6.18: 2025-10-18 10:25:43 +02:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about `clippy::disallowed_macros` configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap linux_kselftest-kunit-fixes-6.18-rc4 2025-10-30 19:11:27 -07:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
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Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS perf tools fixes for v6.18: 2025-11-06 16:05:33 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18-rc5 2025-11-09 15:10:19 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
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.